g2b2,

thank you for your replies (in my other thread as well). My camera is a Sony Cybershot just like the one in this link: Sony Cyber-SHOT DSC-W1 Digital Camera: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo

Though I suppose this doesn't help much yet, since I still have yet to even see the microscope. I might get it at some point this week.

Whatever the case, the camera I mentioned above is my all-purpose camera so I don't want to make any modifications to it. If any ghetto-hacking is required, however, I do have an old Olympus digital camera (~10 yrs old) that no one in my family uses anymore, so instead of throwing it out, I'd be willing to take my chances with ripping it open.

I also did some googling on this matter today and found a couple of DIY projects where people did this for threading their camera into a telescope or spotting scope. I also found one site where the guy made his own machined metal adapters for microscopes. It appeared to me that no changes were being made to either the camera or the instrument; just some form of tubing/piping that attached the camera directly to the eyepiece (or, I guess they call them oculars in microscopy?).

Well, anyway, I guess these are all just excited musings for now. I'll keep you guys posted and show pictures when I get the thing.

-Adam O.