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To use your Nikon, search Google for DSLR microscope adapters. Too bad you didn't go Canon, cause they come with free software to connect to the computer so you can see what the camera sees, on your monitor. But You can still buy an adapter for the Nikon but you will need to focus through the camera viewfinder. [In case it is not obvious, you take the lens off the camera for microphotography. The microscope IS the lens.]
Adaptors to fit a DSLR are made to fit your specific bayonet mount so you buy it for your particular camera model. Last I looked, they were about $90 and have an internal lens to use when mounting it on the camera, then slipping the other end into one of the scopes eyepiece holes after pulling out the one eyepiece.
This is a crude way of doing things since in the recent past even, no microscope builders made scopes for holding a camera. Some more expensive models of the day had a trinocular port on the head of the scope, a third hole, purpose built into the head where the camera would mount to.
Still, you got some good pics with your hand held digital camera. By the way, look around for some new ocular and replacement objectives lenses and that scope will be virtually new again. Be careful when buying lenses tho, objectives come with different sized threads now, and are made for different barrel lengths, but they are still being made, and not too expensive. Buy new though, you'll get ripped off if you buy from E-bay.