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by Malpi
Mon Dec 18, 2023 3:25 am
Forum: Identification help
Topic: ACQUARIUM WATER OBSERVATION
Replies: 5
Views: 1559

Re: ACQUARIUM WATER OBSERVATION

Bruce Taylor wrote:
Sun Dec 17, 2023 9:00 pm
It's not a rotifer. It's a vaginicolid ciliate (Vaginicola, Cothurnia, etc.). :) We don't see the base of the base of the lorica, so I'm hesitant to propose a genus-level identification.
Very interesting! Thanks for the correction.
by Malpi
Sun Dec 17, 2023 1:36 pm
Forum: Identification help
Topic: ACQUARIUM WATER OBSERVATION
Replies: 5
Views: 1559

Re: ACQUARIUM WATER OBSERVATION

I'm no expert, but looks like a Rotifer in a Lorica(shell)
Nice find.
by Malpi
Sun Dec 17, 2023 1:19 pm
Forum: About the website, the magazine and this forum
Topic: New trouble uploading images...
Replies: 19
Views: 16165

Re: New trouble uploading images...

Testing
(EDIT: well that looks ok my end)
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by Malpi
Fri Apr 24, 2020 11:19 pm
Forum: Microscopy accessories
Topic: Microscope trinocular Imaging alternative
Replies: 4
Views: 3344

Re: Microscope trinocular Imaging alternative

DonSchaeffer wrote:
Fri Apr 24, 2020 10:48 pm
Your link is broken. I's really like to see your setup. Can you link it again?
The link posted by perulero has [img] attached at the end thus corrupting it
try this :
https://www.astronomics.com/1-25-camera ... -ring.html
by Malpi
Sun Apr 19, 2020 11:48 pm
Forum: Camera systems and imaging
Topic: Maybe a way to get the perfect image with a DSLR?
Replies: 26
Views: 9083

Re: Maybe a way to get the perfect image with a DSLR?

To avoid any misunderstanding :
When I said "it works" in respect of my vintage extender I was not referring to any claims of "perfect image" as in the topic title !
I was referring to the reduction of precariousness wrt to the periscope effect.
by Malpi
Sun Apr 19, 2020 10:43 pm
Forum: Camera systems and imaging
Topic: Maybe a way to get the perfect image with a DSLR?
Replies: 26
Views: 9083

Re: Maybe a way to get the perfect image with a DSLR?

The trick I use is quite simple: a 2x tele-extender! thanks for the tip, I remembered I had a 2x/3x tele-extender somewhere still here from my filmSLR days in the '60s ! It only took me 3hrs to find it ,,,, and it works :) much less precarious than the stack of tubes and the helicoid I was using.
by Malpi
Sun Apr 19, 2020 3:52 pm
Forum: Camera systems and imaging
Topic: Maybe a way to get the perfect image with a DSLR?
Replies: 26
Views: 9083

Re: Maybe a way to get the perfect image with a DSLR?

A little while later :mrgreen: :-

Ah yes, I see what you did now, most of it was the megga dng (which I had not expected :idea: ) which I will view with interest later ;)

The little jpg is interesting thank you.
by Malpi
Sun Apr 19, 2020 3:37 pm
Forum: Camera systems and imaging
Topic: Maybe a way to get the perfect image with a DSLR?
Replies: 26
Views: 9083

Re: Maybe a way to get the perfect image with a DSLR?

a 286MB zip file even !! ( at 550KB/s adsl ,,,wake me up in a while :shock: )
by Malpi
Sat Apr 18, 2020 9:26 am
Forum: Beginner's corner
Topic: Anyone with a Swift SW350T ?
Replies: 25
Views: 14631

Re: Anyone with a Swift SW350T ?

Nice find ! I had looked at several Swift ytvids but missed that one (or maybe I saw it and missed the most relevant bit !) At 1:10 to 1:16 it answers my original post/question/raison d'etre of this topic :- The 350T does indeed have a swing out filter holder :!: that would take a dark-field thingie...
by Malpi
Fri Apr 17, 2020 4:37 pm
Forum: Introduce yourself
Topic: First Time Microscope Owner in Minneapolis USA
Replies: 7
Views: 4406

Re: First Time Microscope Owner in Minneapolis USA

Thanks, It looks like there is something wrong with the Link to the Blue Book. I'll try later today. Hi Gslab, welcome aboard. Yes, looks like the site has gone awol, but the WaybackMachine still has it :- https://web.archive.org/web/20171021170806/http://webmight.com/~psneeley/downloads/AOBlueBook...
by Malpi
Fri Apr 17, 2020 2:01 am
Forum: Introduce yourself
Topic: Adding / requiring member locations?
Replies: 15
Views: 5802

Re: Adding / requiring member locations?

Curious Several other sites require this of their members, " require" , , who is going to set up the verification structure ? ! I am happy to say I am in England, even that I am in SW England if that assists micro/bio clarification but how do y'all know that I speak not with forked tongue ! there i...
by Malpi
Thu Apr 16, 2020 11:59 pm
Forum: Beginner's corner
Topic: Anyone with a Swift SW350T ?
Replies: 25
Views: 14631

Re: Anyone with a Swift SW350T ?

I am beginning to think that I should buy one (just to find out / explore, they are well priced here), write an "in depth" review (with pictures !) of Swift filter capabilities,,, and then sell it, and its copyright, to Swift. I wonder how much they would pay me for it :lol: :roll: Hi Shirley, welco...
by Malpi
Sun Apr 05, 2020 7:17 pm
Forum: Beginner's corner
Topic: Anyone with a Swift SW350T ?
Replies: 25
Views: 14631

Re: Anyone with a Swift SW350T ?

Ah !
Well done, another of life's little mysteries sorted :)
by Malpi
Sat Apr 04, 2020 2:34 pm
Forum: Beginner's corner
Topic: Anyone with a Swift SW350T ?
Replies: 25
Views: 14631

Re: Anyone with a Swift SW350T ?

garstro wrote:
Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:50 pm
thinking it had a filter holder as they included a blue filter. However it had an iris diaphragm instead.
A reasonable assumption I would say as well !
All very strange.

Thanks for your info,input.
by Malpi
Tue Mar 31, 2020 10:14 am
Forum: Beginner's corner
Topic: Anyone with a Swift SW350T ?
Replies: 25
Views: 14631

Re: Anyone with a Swift SW350T ?

It seems that there are not many owners of Swifts on the forum.
Which may indicate that I should look to other manufacturers for my next purchase !
by Malpi
Mon Mar 30, 2020 7:05 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Micscape online Magazine
Replies: 27
Views: 26014

Re: Micscape online Magazine

As well as removing the excess chat
I have now decided to remove the controversial post also,
so we can all go back to sleep.
by Malpi
Mon Mar 30, 2020 6:44 pm
Forum: Beginner's corner
Topic: Anyone with a Swift SW350T ?
Replies: 25
Views: 14631

Re: Anyone with a Swift SW350T ?

All becomes mysterious : a Diaphragm becomes a Swinging Filter Holder !

I had assumed the diaphragm (in my viewing of AmazonUK) to be an Iris.
Has it been a model upgrade or just a different name for the same thing ?
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by Malpi
Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:47 pm
Forum: Beginner's corner
Topic: Anyone with a Swift SW350T ?
Replies: 25
Views: 14631

Re: Anyone with a Swift SW350T ?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07N7TPSP7/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Thanks for that link, yes, without a doubt, it does show a "Swinging Filter Holder" I know my eyes are not young anymore but they couldnt miss that ! Now that is Amazon states-side, whereas I am on this sid...
by Malpi
Mon Mar 30, 2020 3:50 pm
Forum: Beginner's corner
Topic: Anyone with a Swift SW350T ?
Replies: 25
Views: 14631

Re: Anyone with a Swift SW350T ?

I have the 380t and it has a filter holder for those little plastic dark field filters. You can't go by the seller comments because they don't know what they are talking about. The 380t had similar comments saying darkfield wasn't possible even though it has the filter holder option. The reviews an...
by Malpi
Mon Mar 30, 2020 2:51 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Micscape online Magazine
Replies: 27
Views: 26014

Re: Micscape online Magazine

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by Malpi
Sun Mar 29, 2020 8:49 pm
Forum: Beginner's corner
Topic: Amscope T720 vs. Swift SW380T
Replies: 12
Views: 11787

Re: Amscope T720 vs. Swift SW380T

for my Nikon D800... very important to have a virbation free shutter release from live view, EFSC, electronic first shutter curtain. Very few Nikon have this but yours might actually be among them. I could be wrong but I think EFSC was not introduced until the 810 ? Needs checking on because I have...
by Malpi
Sun Mar 29, 2020 4:35 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Micscape online Magazine
Replies: 27
Views: 26014

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by Malpi
Sun Mar 29, 2020 4:31 pm
Forum: Specimens, samples and slides
Topic: Whole Mount Insect Slide Preparation Part 2
Replies: 7
Views: 4809

Re: Whole Mount Insect Slide Preparation Part 2

I think IPA is an acronym often used for iso-propyl alcohol. If there was enough interest, perhaps booklet 7 could be scanned. Yes. and Yes, please, I am interested. [ There is a joke in the UK that it, IPA, should not be mistaken for India Pale Ale, dont know how well that joke carries elsewhere ]
by Malpi
Sun Mar 29, 2020 1:19 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: On the matter of being a beginner !
Replies: 1
Views: 5948

On the matter of being a beginner !

I do not have enough time left to be anything more than a beginner in anything, in fact I have been a beginner all my life. I sometimes think that it would have been good to have been a Victorian, and to have been able to know a lot about nearly everything. But that would not have been nice sometime...
by Malpi
Sun Mar 29, 2020 12:38 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Micscape online Magazine
Replies: 27
Views: 26014

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by Malpi
Sun Mar 29, 2020 11:20 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Micscape online Magazine
Replies: 27
Views: 26014

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by Malpi
Sun Mar 29, 2020 10:59 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Micscape online Magazine
Replies: 27
Views: 26014

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by Malpi
Sun Mar 29, 2020 10:20 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Micscape online Magazine
Replies: 27
Views: 26014

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by Malpi
Sun Mar 29, 2020 9:40 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Micscape online Magazine
Replies: 27
Views: 26014

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by Malpi
Sun Mar 29, 2020 2:53 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Micscape online Magazine
Replies: 27
Views: 26014

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Removed, to keep the peace !