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Beautiful!

Crystallized from evaporating ethanol, circular polarizers, Lomo 8x achromat.

Strange rectangular fractals, it almost looks like something artificial... I'll try to replicate this and take some more shots!

Thanks for the feedback!

Yes JimT, I started as a kid, but there were long periods in my life when I didn't even think about microscopes. Until a few weeks ago

Two more shots of tartric acid, a new slide. Next time I'll try stacking, my camera setup has a bit of a focusing issue.

Some shots of tartric acid I just made. A very old slide, it has deteriorated a bit after >35 years. Polarized light with cheap movie theater 3d glasses, which are circular polarization filters. Lomo MBU-4, Lomo 3.7x/0.11 and 8x/0.20 objectives, no eyepiece, Olympus E-500 camera (micro 4/3), ordinar...

Thanks again guys, yes me too, looking forward to see some pictures! It will have to be done outside I guess.

Maybe I'll have a go at ice too, there is a cold period coming here in Holland.

Have you tried the optical view finder of your E-500, instead of its LCD? That's the only possibility with the E-500, it has no realtime LCD view. Its optical viewfinder is so tiny compared to my previous camera, the OM2-n (which even had an exchangeable focus screen). Anyway, thanks for the tip!

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone! So nice to see there are more Lomo owners/users around. I have to admit the MBU is very uncomfortable to use and I want to get a trinocular later this year for photography, now I have to focus through the camera viewer - which is almost impossible. But of course...

Hi all, I stumbled upon this site last week and decided to become a member after a lot of lurking. It's inspiring me to restore this old hobby. It started in the early '70s (I'm 53 now) when my brother got home with a toy microscope from the neighbours, wow that was pure magic, whole new hidden worl...