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by micro
Wed Sep 22, 2021 11:44 pm
Forum: Camera systems and imaging
Topic: Need a way to secure Camera to E600 Microscope
Replies: 6
Views: 2308

Re: Need a way to secure Camera to E600 Microscope

I am using a micro 4/3 camera. If I got one of those tubes I would need another adapter that attaches to the camera right?
by micro
Sun Sep 19, 2021 4:15 pm
Forum: Camera systems and imaging
Topic: Need a way to secure Camera to E600 Microscope
Replies: 6
Views: 2308

Need a way to secure Camera to E600 Microscope

I have a 0.5x relay lens attached to a camera that goes in the trinocular port of my nikon e600. The camera has too much weight on one side so it tips over. The lower part of the relay lens fits well but it only goes in an inch which isn't enough to hold the weight of the camera. I need some kind of...
by micro
Sun Sep 19, 2021 3:53 pm
Forum: Camera systems and imaging
Topic: Hdmi imaging anyone?
Replies: 8
Views: 3143

Re: Hdmi imaging anyone?

The dslr and micro four third photography cameras are generally better than the usb cameras. The usb cameras can be really hit or miss so you have to lookup the specific model you are interested in and see what people have uploaded with them. The only issue with dslr and micro 4/3 is finding adapter...
by micro
Thu Sep 16, 2021 3:23 am
Forum: Pictures and Videos
Topic: Pigmented Ciliate
Replies: 9
Views: 2707

Re: Pigmented Ciliate

Air blowers are absolutely mandatory for microscopes and cameras.
by micro
Thu Sep 16, 2021 2:04 am
Forum: Pictures and Videos
Topic: Pigmented Ciliate
Replies: 9
Views: 2707

Re: Pigmented Ciliate

by micro
Wed Sep 15, 2021 12:14 am
Forum: Camera systems and imaging
Topic: sensor size / aspect-ratio / fov
Replies: 6
Views: 2185

Re: sensor size / aspect-ratio / fov

I don't know about the mathematical fov stuff but for taking pictures and videos of microbes I prefer micro 4/3 cameras because of the zoom effect they have. People say full frame is technically more detailed but the zoom factor with micro 4/3 and CMOS sensors are useful. The Canadian nature photogr...
by micro
Mon Sep 13, 2021 5:41 am
Forum: Pictures and Videos
Topic: Pigmented Ciliate
Replies: 9
Views: 2707

Re: Pigmented Ciliate

Just use lens wipes and microfiber cloth
by micro
Wed Sep 01, 2021 6:27 pm
Forum: Pictures and Videos
Topic: Pictures and Video Posts: HOW TO ???
Replies: 12
Views: 3244

Re: Pictures and Video Posts: HOW TO ???

Hi, it's simple- you can't do this! You can upload jpg of up to 1024 pixels long side and upt to 500 kB size. For anything bigger you will need an external host. Big advantage of the forum upload ist that it will most likely work as long as the forum is alive. External photo hosts die one after the...
by micro
Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:12 am
Forum: Pictures and Videos
Topic: Made another compilation video
Replies: 12
Views: 3740

Re: Made another compilation video

Not DIC or oblique just regular brightfield darkfield and one clip with phase contrast. Remarkable! I have a Nikon Labophot 2 with CFN objectives, but protists appear somewhat monochrome (at least the details: “eyes”, etc) unless I use oblique illumination or similar tricks. I’d like to understand ...
by micro
Mon Jul 26, 2021 7:55 am
Forum: Pictures and Videos
Topic: Made another compilation video
Replies: 12
Views: 3740

Re: Made another compilation video

That one toward the end had a nice slant to it, almost like a 3D with a tilt effect. That one was the most interesting. I wonder how this one was captured? It looks insanely detailed. Some of the footage was shot in 4k and downgraded to 1080p for this video. The 4k recordings capture color and deta...
by micro
Sun Jul 25, 2021 9:54 am
Forum: Pictures and Videos
Topic: Made another compilation video
Replies: 12
Views: 3740

Re: Made another compilation video

Phill Brown wrote:
Sun Jul 25, 2021 8:43 am
Thanks for sharing. Excellent all round.
Are some of the clips using inverted microscope?
No all from the same upright bx40
by micro
Sun Jul 25, 2021 7:07 am
Forum: Pictures and Videos
Topic: Made another compilation video
Replies: 12
Views: 3740

Re: Made another compilation video

pippo1234 wrote:
Sun Jul 25, 2021 5:46 am
Beautiful!

Am I right that most of it uses DIC? I am asking since you do not mention it in the ‘about’ section of your youtube channel.

TIA
Not DIC or oblique just regular brightfield darkfield and one clip with phase contrast.
by micro
Sun Jul 25, 2021 4:18 am
Forum: Pictures and Videos
Topic: Made another compilation video
Replies: 12
Views: 3740

Made another compilation video

by micro
Wed Jun 09, 2021 2:42 am
Forum: Pictures and Videos
Topic: Slowmotion Test Footage 180-240 FPS
Replies: 4
Views: 1598

Re: Slowmotion Test Footage 180-240 FPS

Panasonic GH5s. Its meant to be a film making camera in dslr/m4/3 form. The max frames it can do is 240 in 1080p. Normally the GH5s shoots grainy looking 240 fps because it needs a lot of light but this doesn't seem to be a problem shooting microscope videos. Newer iphones can also shoot 240 fps vid...
by micro
Sun Jun 06, 2021 9:20 am
Forum: Identification help
Topic: What did I witness?
Replies: 4
Views: 2614

Re: What did I witness?

A list of microbes that eat others are dileptid, stentor, amoeba, Loxophyllum, flatworm?. Not sure what ciliates eat other live ciliates besides maybe vorticella/peritrichs. I guess most microbes will eat each other as long as they have already fallen apart.
by micro
Thu Jun 03, 2021 4:31 am
Forum: Beginner's corner
Topic: Where do you find Stentors?
Replies: 6
Views: 2521

Re: Where do you find Stentors?

I found hundreds of them once. They were on these green plants. Don't know what the plants are called but they are those little green circular things. Some stentors are big enough to see without a microscope so you can gather pond water poor it in a dish and look for them that way. https://i.imgur.c...
by micro
Tue Apr 06, 2021 8:31 am
Forum: Pictures and Videos
Topic: Protozoa Cell division?
Replies: 5
Views: 1947

Re: Protozoa Cell division?

Looks like conjugation
by micro
Sun Jan 31, 2021 2:54 am
Forum: Beginner's corner
Topic: Peritrich Species Order List?
Replies: 1
Views: 1618

Peritrich Species Order List?

Can someone direct me to a list of all the peritrich species or perhaps rather all the orders like vorticella and mobilida?
by micro
Wed Jan 27, 2021 6:16 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: How to package a microscope!?
Replies: 24
Views: 10745

Re: How to package a microscope!?

Package handlers are trained to knock down onto the floor the wall of packages in a truck so they are easier to move onto the conveyor belt. Its usually a controlled slowish knockdown at least. But the odds of the package dropping hard from 5 feet is high.
by micro
Sun Jan 03, 2021 4:43 pm
Forum: Beginner's corner
Topic: floaters
Replies: 26
Views: 10061

Re: floaters

Are you using large wide angle eyepieces? With my swift 380t floaters are a non issue for the most part. But then I upgraded to another microscope that had bigger eyepieces and for some reason the bigger eye pieces make the floater issue vastly worse. But I just hook my microscope camera up to a mon...
by micro
Sat Jan 02, 2021 3:05 pm
Forum: Pictures and Videos
Topic: Chilodonella
Replies: 9
Views: 3556

Re: Chilononella

video is private
by micro
Thu Dec 31, 2020 3:46 pm
Forum: Pictures and Videos
Topic: Pregnant water flea and copepod?
Replies: 1
Views: 1237

Re: Pregnant water flea and copepod?

Correct. I think those are eggs on the copepod too.
by micro
Sun Dec 27, 2020 6:21 pm
Forum: Identification help
Topic: Any idea on these two cilliates.
Replies: 4
Views: 1897

Re: Any idea on these two cilliates.

Looks like loxophyllum and a hypotrich
by micro
Sun Dec 27, 2020 3:38 pm
Forum: Pictures and Videos
Topic: Copepod and Rotifer 3D
Replies: 9
Views: 3108

Re: Copepod and Rotifer 3D

Interesting because the 2nd looks stacked as well
by micro
Sun Dec 27, 2020 3:28 pm
Forum: Microscopes and optics
Topic: How clean is clean enough
Replies: 13
Views: 5085

Re: How clean is clean enough

I tried a swab kit. Works good but there is still always a little spec left on the sensor that takes 10 tries to finally remove them all. But I try to get it perfectly clean even from the 40x objective view which is practically impossible.
by micro
Sun Dec 27, 2020 3:24 pm
Forum: Pictures and Videos
Topic: Copepod and Rotifer 3D
Replies: 9
Views: 3108

Re: Copepod and Rotifer 3D

Looks like stacked images in photoshop. I will have to try the crystal method.
by micro
Sun Dec 27, 2020 5:54 am
Forum: Pictures and Videos
Topic: Stephanoceros fimbriatus ssp. millsii
Replies: 3
Views: 1663

Re: Stephanoceros fimbriatus ssp. millsii

Was it in a regular pond?
by micro
Sun Dec 27, 2020 1:53 am
Forum: Camera systems and imaging
Topic: Budget Friendly BH2 Video?
Replies: 41
Views: 15827

Re: Budget Friendly BH2 Video?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Olympus-Micro-4-3s-Camera-Adapter-2-Olymp-Microscope-42mm-dovetail-BX-Trinocular/264914938000 This adapter isn't parfocal with the eyepieces but the images I get look good so I never bothered trying anything else. And Tom is right about 4k looking better. I recently started ...
by micro
Sun Dec 27, 2020 1:27 am
Forum: Camera systems and imaging
Topic: Budget Friendly BH2 Video?
Replies: 41
Views: 15827

Re: Budget Friendly BH2 Video?

I forgot you can plug the camera directly into a monitor without the elgato cam link. I use the cam link because then I can use the computer at the same time without it just being hooked up to the camera. I also use it for streaming the microscope footage. So that makes the setup $110 cheaper. The t...