Leica Mz6 microscope - phone camera adapter

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Stereo microscopes are common in electronics etc labs, and would be convenient to be able to capture photographs of what one sees. Our Leica MZ6 does have another viewport for attaching a camera, but that would apparently require an expensive adapter and an SLR with a suitable lens, rather expensive for our random needs. Cheap USB microscopes can be used for that, but accurate focusing with them is much harder. This adapter allows most phone cameras be used with a Leica MZ6 microscope (probably others, at least by some cutting, also mono microscopes), by just placing the adapter on one of the eyepieces and placing the phone on it so that the view is visible on phone screen. No additional focusing needed, just focus by eyes and throw in the phone. This adapter also has slots for an additional phone specific adapter, if required, haven't bothered yet. BTW: the phone needs to be placed rather accurately for the picture be captured, at first some experimenting needed.