Minolta SLR Camera Microscope Adaptor II
Date: after 1967
Inventory Number: 2000-1-0017b
Classification: Photographic Equipment
Subject:
Maker: Minolta Camera Co., Ltd. (1928 - 2003)
Owner: Herbert W. Levi (born 1921)
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Dimensions:
6 × 5.4 × 13.4 cm (2 3/8 × 2 1/8 × 5 1/4 in.)
box: 14.9 × 6.9 × 6.9 cm (5 7/8 × 2 11/16 × 2 11/16 in.)
Material:
Accessories: manual sheet; box
Description:
Four part microscope adapter for Minolta SLR cameras. Includes camera mount, barrel, microscope mount and a shade tube. The bodies of these instruments are black plastic and metal. The original box has an image of the adaptor on one side and multicolored images of microscopic bodies on another.
To see the camera that was used with this microscope adaptor, please refer to object 2000-1-0017a in this collection.
To see the camera that was used with this microscope adaptor, please refer to object 2000-1-0017a in this collection.
Signedon barrel: Minolta JAPAN
Inscribedengraved by hand: LEVI MCZ HARVARD UNIV.
Stamped on box: Herbert W. Levi Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University Cambridge, Mass. 02138
Stamped on box: Herbert W. Levi Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University Cambridge, Mass. 02138
FunctionUsed to take picture of specimen seen through a microscope.
Historical AttributesUsed by Prof. Herbert Walter Levi, Professor of Biology, Emeritus Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Univsersity, 26 Oxford St. Room 131, Cambridge, MA.
