Take digital photos through a microscope without any special lens or adapter

Step 7 Telescopes and more

All of this will also work for taking pictures through a telescope, although you'll probably find that a tripod is more necessary for stability, and that many cameras will have trouble with dark subjects (like the night sky). It works well for terrestrial pictures in daylight.

Thanks to nospleen (Erich Brandeau) for taking pictures of me taking pictures.

(Instructables user davidmerrill used this technique to illustrate his wonderful explanation of how to hand solder SMT chips (http://www.instructables.com/ex/i/0E9564B43CE71029AC23001143E7E506/?ALLSTEPS). But the technique is so useful and little-known that I thought it deserved its own Instructable.)