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Hi mike42, happy new year all. I totally agree that to flat out state: 'why use oil' regards to 100X objectives is a deliberate microscopy performance mistatement....frankly a marketing hollow ploy. I enjoy my Nikon Plan 100X dry, NA 0.90 , 160/ 0.14-0.20, correction-collar objective...under very sp...

Wonderful array of rotifers...reminds me of the recent televized NYC "Macy's Thanksgiving Parade". I love that red eye color, thanks. charlie g

Hi MissRachel....shipping costs are an issue..are you con-US? charlie g, finger-lakes/US

I enjoy this strong graphic effect, thanks don. I'm impressed that with the tight working distance of dry-60X objectives, I'm impressed you can find...and maintain a sweet spot oblique illumination with the 'pen-light'. Do you do it hand-held, is the torch LED? The qualities of your images here have...

Hi hannibal, I have quite a few of these quasi-student Japan monocular stands ( many with a name: "Monoscope" on the barrel. These scopes are not good at all for looking at spores...please do not be lured by the low price..it's a gamble on what went down the scopes body-tube all the time an occular ...

I need to chunk this maple wood before snowfall stays.

Hi rapidray and Mrsonchus, my 'microscopy wold views' often an excuse to interupt chores...err I'm supposed to be chunking a tree for fire wood ( tree dropped last spring'19)...but I keep stareing at what is under the bark of the chunks of maple-wood! And there was the microscopy of the near pure cu...

In addition to ostracod micro-crusteaceans (that is a type of : meiofauna), this stable bench culture offers a variety of other meiofauna inhabitants and protozoa 'new to me'.

The molted 'husks', or shed shells, or molted carapaces of various ostracod molt stages litter fluid samples of this 'Ostracod Island' dish culture. I'm thinking about collecting a variety of shed carapaces to prepare a permanent slide of the growth stages of this meiofaunan. Unlike fresh observed o...

NormallyI avoid the border areas of wetmount slides with 50/50 mix of sample and methylcellulose viscosity tool..with close working distance higher mag objectives..a mess to clean if your objective touches the border fluids.

We enjoyed a first light snowfall 11/1/20 here in fingerlakes/US. Before this month..puppie and I collected a second moss covered rock to place in the bench pyrex dish with 'Ostracod Island' moss rock. This first rocks moss has now started to grow off of the rock it was on when collected. With tweez...

Welcome , and thanks for insight to how high-tech microscopy techs get excellent sourced microscopy gear for home usage. Please share with us in forum, are the high vacum systems, and the err..sputter coating system safe at a home lab, as a home tank of compressed propane for a patio barbeque grill?...

Magnifico...bubbles like ice-crystals in frost , each result from an austere solution to physical conditions waters and soaps or others molecules within the waters are exposed to, and make physical sense of for stable existence. To our humble eyes, these are reminders of a stark physical world which...

Again, DonS, congrats on a thoughtful thread..you 'keep it real'...and your shared thoughts , your shared microscopy appreciated. All I say is..I sense no need to clutter shared microscopy with yet another layer of size units. I sense it easy enough to use the macroscopic unit "millimeter" to invite...

Thanks,DonS. , for a thoughtful thread, for me terrific benefit gained from the folks who posted into this conversation. Thanks thoughtful forum members. I agree with the sentiment that 'limen units' have too many variables packed into the eyes of beholders attempting to share with others 'limen uni...

These variety of molt-stages offer insight into just when epibiont peritrich ciliates ellect to attach to OStracods...dependant of the constant driver of our seasons.

'Ostracod Island ' supports a vibrant meiofauna community.

Hi all, please share with puppy and me, a wonderful fall'20 microscopy hike for moss covered stones. Such a moss covered stone now supports duck weed placed on it's surface...the plant assemblage covering the collected stone 'wicks up'/ maintains a water film over the stone. This stone offers wonder...

Thanks mazo for these observation vids. All these hypotritch ciliates can be enjoyed to the point of a specialty niche ..so much complexity in these plentiful and important protists in aquatic assemblages. Hypotrich ciliates are 'heavy lifters' in freshwater and marine recycling of nutrients from ba...

I came to this thread very late...hi all. I sense that when you 'drop duckets' for costly optics...it's good to keep to one brand of stand...to 'mix and match' hinders later selling of a cobbled together stand. One takes many paths with microscopy..if a goal is better resolution and enhanced image c...

Thanks wes for this 'andy warhol treatment of protozoa recyclers ' within the shells of dead meioforma'...often times even active and mobile diatoms clusters about 'dead meioforma bodies'. A good thing to do on open space/outdoor collection hikes...is to have a few small vials to collect dead insect...

Always good microscopy to observe a brown hydra ( ?Hydra oligactis?). Anton von Lee...first documented these brown hydras in Delft, Netherlands...first documented these hydra's 'budding' as a form of animal reproduction. When you have time, please tell us where you collected these unique animals ( M...

Beautiful work, Wes! Thanks for this display of good microtech. charlie guevara BTW, I always wonded if I could collect and save the occasional huge pennate naturally cleared frustules I encounter in wetmounts from time to time...to one day try and mount these frustules. Thanks again Wes for a wonde...

Hi, Don , these images reflect the artwork so rich in my sons "Magic Cards" collections. I see many forest 'tree elfs' scampering amongst the thich and entwined forest tree branches in your late evening images here. what type of seed is the specimen depicted in this post? charlie guevara

Thank you Charles K , for sharing master microscopy imaging classes with us. Your images have been fascinating and enjoyable to me for years. Happy summer'20 to all charlie guevara

Welcome, Mpalmer...of course you will often use oil-immersion high magnifications for spore studies. So 'danke, danke' Roldorf for that excellent mushroom studies resource. Of course you will need a glass micrometer slide and disc optical reticule to place in eyepieces to callibrate all the objectiv...

Welcome, Mpalmer...of course you will often use oil-immersion high magnifications for spore studies. So 'danke, danke' Roldorf for that excellent mushroom studies resource. Of course you will need a glass micrometer slide and disc optical reticule to place in eyepieces to callibrate all the objectiv...

G'day Rossf, your description of the graceful motion of this organism, the fact that they 'seem small in size' for you...well if you can recall their direction of motion...if these small groupings move in the direction of their flagella...please look at images of freshwater Dinobryon sertularia or r...

Welcome bob, and yahoo...we microscopists love new members and new : 'microscopy world views' from all locations on our small planet! As all folk before have said: welcome, welcome...and the sooner you share macroscopic and compound microscope image captures of your ' neck of the woods'..the better ...