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Oliver posted a recommendation:
http://www.microbehunter.com/finally-a- ... icroscope/

I used a Magnifi 2 for iPhoneX which was great but phone-specific and a bit pricey.

Good luck!

Nice! Its crystal twinning. Crystal twinning occurs when two separate crystals share some of the same crystal lattice points in a symmetrical manner. The result is an intergrowth of two separate crystals in a variety of specific configurations (wikipedia).

Hi 75RR, thanks. Yes, i rotated one of the polarizers as I don't have a real petrographic microscope with a rotating stage. I haven't done petrography in ~45 years so I am quite rusty. Other than being attractive, colors on the feldspar crystal, when the polarizers are crossed, indicate that it is a...

My friends brought me a few petrographic thin sections to experiment with. This one has the big feldspar crystals in a finer grained volcanic matrix of early tertiary age. Enjoying the effects...

wow, beautiful and professional video! congrats!! can you say a few words about your aquarium setup?

looking good with your new scope! thanks for posting.

made me wonder how it would look with a regular compound microscope with inexpensive polarizing film adaption.

wow, looks to be in great shape, congrats! i'm an AO fan but haven't seen a 20 or 120. you can build on it as you progress! good luck

wow, you are a master! great pics and descriptions, thank you!

Thanks Billt. It was interesting to take the somewhat friable shale sample, break it up, boil it in water with a dash of dish soap, dry it and then pick out these tiny 100 million year old fossils!

Wow! Beautiful. Nice work and thanks for sharing!

Thanks jb89, this foram lived for tens off millions of years, per my paleontologist friend, so not a great index fossil, but still definitive for the early cretaceous and interesting morphology. I look forward to you posting some foram pics!

My friend brought over a sample that we cleaned and this is one of the forams we found. Top image shows aperture (mouth area) and second image is of opposite side. Stacked images with my SZ7 w/2x AUX lens.

"Quote:" Here is a comparison I did way back in 2016, no DIC as I did not have it then! Resurrected in 2018

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Very nice, thank you. I'm getting ready to try out DF and phase. Your pics looks great!

Amazing as usual! Thanks!

I'd be interested to see you do a comparison of same subject of BF, DIC, DF and Phase; or a subset of those.

Beautiful! Thanks for posting!

Microscope and thin section looking good! Congrats!!

Thanks for posting Michael, this is very cool!

I used to wear one contact lens for reading. My brain could use info from my left eye for distance and right eye for up close. Sounds like a similar approach, at a high level.

Would love to try it!

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Thanks very much Phil, I will get some thinner cover slips and explore further!

Awesome, thanks Michael!

Well I followed Hobbyst46's advice and it does seem to focus properly. I guess it's finicky but ok. Oil was needed on top and it might have been a bit better with the condenser oiled as well. Thanks to all!

Thanks Hobbyst46 for the good advice; I will do so and report back once done:)

Hi all, after reading Roldforf's recent post on 60X objectives, I decided to ask about an issue I'm having with my "new to me" Reichert Microstar 410. I can't seem to achieve focus on my 100x CAT 1759 1.25 NA objective (using prepared Amscope sides). Seems like I can't get close enough to the sample...

Thanks a lot 75RR; I'm gonna try!!

beautiful pic! can you briefly describe how a beginner who lives near the sea can get started making nice diatom images? or a link to a good/simple resource? thank you!

Thanks for the post! It brings back fond memories of optical mineralogy class.

As Scarodactyl said, this type of adapter works pretty well for me. Smaller FOV than 10x eyepiece, but easy to use and good results in my opinion. https://www.amazon.com/OMAX-Microscope-Adapter-Canon-D-SLR/dp/B01D914LT2/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?keywords=amscope+CA-CAN-SLR&qid=1559610805&s=gateway&sr=8-2-fkm...

Congrats on arrival of your new scope! I'm glad you like it so far; please keep us posted with your experience and post some pics when convenient.

Very nice! Did you grind up a pill?

Thanks for posting!

beautiful scope, congrats!! and good luck with it

and i like that cary case!