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The quality of your image is very decent. If you can try twisting the material that could produce colors in response to the added stress, its a technique used in material science. Thanks Wes! The Plastic Container has gone back to the kitchen! I will have to look for subjects over which I have more...

This is the base of a transparent Tupperware Plastic Container viewed under a 4X Finite Plan Amscope Objective. I placed a plastic polarizing sheet, salvaged from a Weighing Scale Display just below the container. And placed a Glass Linear Polarizer filter just above the plastic base. Turning the po...

The polarized one looks particularly nice with so many colours.

Planapo 63x/1.4, DIC, 65µm, stacked in Photoshop, Marine sample, Alboran Sea. Now that they are letting us out and about I went down to the port and collected another seaweed sample. Always seem to be plenty of diatoms to be found when one picks some up with tweezers and taps lightly on a slide. Be...

Beautiful shots adomacro. I'd appreciate if you explain your setup/process a bit more. Good morning, thank you very much for your comment. It is very simple, once you put a microscope with polarized light, put a transparent plastic container on the slide (it is the retarder) and fill it with water ...

So I finally managed to get some light shining through the microscope. Put a M4/3 to T2 adapter in front of my camera and mounted it on top of the trinocular tube and took my very first pictures through the microscope. Attaching them there for experts to have a look and comment. Subject was outer On...

Thanks 75RR and daruosha! I am getting to know my set-up. I had no idea, this is older than I am, but in better shape than I am
Looked at the links and I now think this is a "Labolux". And has this Berek 2-diaphragm condenser.

Back to some reading

Hello Got interested by seeing some wonderful pictures of a peacock feathers and other small things and decided to explore them myself. Got myself an old microscope 2nd hand from an elderly person who said this microscope has not been used in years. I don't know what model it is. It is black with a ...