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Looks beautiful and I second what Kurt said. Would be great to learn a thing or two about what we are all looking at.

Many thanks Bruce, Seb and KD. I did not use flash but a 100W halogen lamp.

Thanks Hobbyst! Yes, this is done with phase contrast (taken with a 40/0,75 Neofluar Ph2).

Its a fortuitous assembly of algae, the one and only occasion where I saw such a thing. I'm a bit puzzled as to how it happened.

A microscopic salad bar for the voracious but health conscious protozoans.

Danke Jochen

Very interesting behavior. Do you know what causes the amoeboids to change to a pear shape and swim away?

Thank you 75RR and sinabro.

Went to my favorite spot a couple of days ago to collect water samples and found these peritrichs to be very abundant. They formed very large colonies on the side and bottom of the sample containers. Not sure about the species. https://kopame.com/dmqk/dmqm/media/peritrich4780medium.png https://kopam...

Nice catch and great cinematography!

Amazing shot! You are diatom master of the Alboran Sea.

Nice job. Very decent quality.

Useful video! Thanks. That was one beautiful spider slide in the beginning.

Looking forward to part 2.

The correction collar on the Fluor objective is probably there because of the high N.A. The Plan-Fluor has a lower N.A. and therefore doesn't need such stringent control over coverslip thickness. If you plan on doing photomicrography I'd go with the Plan lens. If you just look for eye candy on the g...

Nice!

Great work!

I quite like this one. Looks a bit irregular for a diatom.

Stunning! Is there a special name for the triangular structures visible in these photos and how did you produce the colors in the second image? This is all very, very interesting, a bit more detailed info on your epiDIC setup would be greatly appreciated as I'd like to invest in one.

Really nice! I'd like to see more images of gems and minerals. This produced with epi-DIC and a full-wave plate? What objective did you use here? This is only epi DIC. No wave plate was used...actually still looking to find a wave plate for my Zeiss. So the first-order colors are produced by the DI...

Really nice! I'd like to see more images of gems and minerals.

This produced with epi-DIC and a full-wave plate? What objective did you use here?

daruosha wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 08, 2020 5:50 pm

rs6000 wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 08, 2020 4:24 pm

what are these guys smoking???

Perhaps Immersion Oil.

rs6000 wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 08, 2020 4:24 pm

though IMHO the last straw was there asking 3800.00$ for a 360Deg rotatable stage for a WL

There is a price reduction on that item, its only $2,661.40

Very cool thread Microworldofgems! The paint job is great and I find your prism repair inspiring. Would Canada balsam work for gluing the prism wedges? I noticed you removed the optovar from the tube head. I had the impression once its off its nearly impossible to get it back to its original position.

Great work as always sinabro. Always looking forward to your threads!

75RR wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 06, 2020 7:49 pm

BramHuntingNematodes wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 06, 2020 7:14 pm

I won an item recently I knew might be broken, found out it was definitely broken when I got it, and still think I got a pretty good deal.

The usefulness of door stops is underestimated

I am currently sporting some very nice Planapo paperweights.

Cool video mintakax, and an even nicer aquairum! My wife freaks out over the sight of a couple of baby jars filled with about 100 ml of dirty water, I'll have a hard time convincing her to get one of these bad boys

I'd make a guess and say no. I tried to use the dedicated prisms for the INKO condenser you posted in an epi-illumination setup and it did not work at all. Still, give it a try I'm curious to see what you come up.

I got into microscopy as a hobby a few years ago, and, frankly, it's been mostly frustration for me since then. Almost all of this frustration has resulted from equipment issues. Ah, yes I hate when that happens. Buy an "excellent" photo eyepiece with no issues, has fungus...buy a "perfect" Planapo...

wow, I'd hang that on my wall

Very nice set!

Would you mind telling us what type of objectives you used for taking these shots.

In addition that what has been mentioned I quite like the following two: TheMicrobiology09 https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMicrobiology09 Craig Smith https://www.youtube.com/user/MrInsight1979 Its a shame they don't post anymore cause the quality is superb (Craig Smith recently sold his excellent Un...

Thanks for the interesting description, I always enjoy reading how people prepare their samples.

Quite nice photo too, I wouldn't have come up with phase contrast for this particular subject but it really makes it stand out. Quite alien really. Nice one!

I agree with the members above me. This is a really good result!

Would be interesting to get some details on your sectioning technique as well as fixing, staining and mounting.