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The first part was taken using a Zeiss Neofluar 6.3/0.20, the DIC part was done with a Zeiss Plan-Neofluar 16/0.50 imm in water immersion.

The green and gold colours on the fangs are no doubt interference colours. They could be caused by the fangs being covered with a number of semi transparent layers less than one wavelength thick, or more likely by some kind of uneven surface, where some light is reflected out of phase with some more...

A little clip showing the Peristaltic Contractions of the gut of a Nematode. I came across a wriggling mass of them in the bottom debris of my rain barrel. After lifting one out using one of my own hairs (glued to a wooden stick with a drop of mounting media) I first tried to pacify it with some dil...

barrel.jpg alysium seedpods.jpg I have done quite a bit of stacking, mostly with the stereomicroscope, the subjects either insects or small flowers. I tend to work with 15 - 25 images to stack. , taking several below and above the object. When viewing the individual images I delete the ones that ha...

Thanks Kurt!

This message continues from my earlier one, with the rest of the images.

In my years working for Carl Zeiss, Wild-Leitz and later Leica I have come across a lot of redundant equipment languishing under benches. Often the owners were quite happy to give them away in return for some servicing of their current microscopes. I wasn't interested in anything other than Leitz, W...

A problem with taking pictures of 3-dimensional objects with the stereo microscope is often the lack of depth of focus. The structure and detail of the top surface is clear, but the overall shape is lost. I use the freeware CZM available through the microscopy.org.uk website to combine a series of i...

My name is Paul. Worked for Carl Zeiss NZ as a microscopy consultant and branch manager since 1978, with a 9 year stint in between as the same for Wild-Leitz (later Leica). As a result I have a nice collection of both antique (oldest 1855) and more current (1980's) microscopes. Mostly Zeiss, and som...