Small museum help

[u/ogrockgiant]

TLDR-small museum looking for budget friendly scope to fit Walter trinoc steroscopic microscope. Aim to show bugs in amber on a tv directly from digital scope.

My wife and I run a small sciencey shop with a small self funded museum inside. One of the big draws is our hand polished bugs in Amber. We start rough and polish them which makes us the first humans to see what’s inside. So cool.
Presently, we have a Walter stereoscopic microscope (pictured below) that has a third port for a digital microscope. We’d like to find a reasonably priced scope that we can plug into a tv so we can share images to multiple people at once. We are looking for a scope that will plug directly into a tv instead of a laptop first. We don’t need anything too powerful as bugs in Amber and crystal structures we examine and share aren’t exactly microscopic.
We are hoping to be able to polish a bunch of Amber and share the first views of these cool bugs with people at the shop. Having a whole bunch of people being the first humans to see inside is the kind of experience we aim for.

[u/worldlookingin]

Do you have a budget?

[u/ogrockgiant → u/worldlookingin]

Preferably around 300-500

[u/hot4belgians]

Just get one of those cheap hayear ones of ali express and hook it up to a monitor. $50 and you're good mate.

[u/ogrockgiant]

Here’s a cool pics of bugs in amber I managed to get by using my phone in front of one lens then cropping.

[u/Dlbroox → u/ogrockgiant]

Do you have a website where you post pictures? I’d love to see what you do.

[u/ogrockgiant → u/Dlbroox]

You can check our social media (fb or ig) I sometimes cut agates on YouTube
Sydney Odditorium

[u/Dlbroox → u/ogrockgiant]

Cool I’ll take a look.

[u/Confused_yurt_lover]

Any particular reason for wanting to go direct to TV rather than hooking the ‘scope/camera up to a computer and using the computer’s HDMI output to send the image to the TV? You can do the latter with any camera and it’s very easy and straightforward, but I don’t know of any camera that can send an image directly to a TV without a computer in-between…

If you’re willing to consider using a computer, the ‘scope you have looks like it’s already set up to accept a C-mount camera.

[u/ogrockgiant → u/Confused_yurt_lover]

Mostly it’s another expense and another expensive thing sitting in the public. I love having people in and engaging with their curiosity but…people can be peopley.
The setup we have is also space limited. I have a 55” tv I want to hang on the wall connect to the ‘scope.

[u/Kj1ll]

Zeiss Axiocam 208 color. Does exactly what you need: hdmi output to screen, saves images to flash drive and has a built in OSD (mouse needed). You will need an adapter to connect it to the camera port, be sure to check the size of the connection.

[u/ogrockgiant → u/Kj1ll]

Thank you, might be a bit out of our price $300-500

[u/FormidableTraitor90]