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

Nickp writes “You can use an ordinary digital camera to take pictures through a telescope or microscope, without any special adapters or lenses. The secret is to use “macro mode”, a feature nearly all cameras have nowadays. It’s intended to take closeup pictures of things only a few inches away from the lens, but since that’s the apparent distance of what you see through a scope, it works for that as well.” – Link.