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Love them ! Really nice images also of the plants.
Your vignettes are a breath of fresh air, colourful and interesting.
Thanks again for another excellent post.

Hmm, looks significant to me, especially for the 40x, where the central part of the image is improved within the area most concentrated-upon and indeed covered by a camera's FOV.
Almost seems to be a case of the higher the mag, the more noticeable the improvement.

Cripes old chap - you're right! Completely forgotten that saga. I wish I'd known then what I know now - an old story that! I wonder if I remembered to swing out the collector lens, probably did but that may have made a difference if I hadn't. Must have a look through my images for some sort of recor...

I never found a 1x - and a while back now moved over to Olympus (the shame...... :oops: ) as I wanted to move to the newer generation/s of optics and I had a little spare money. My Leitz was a beautiful Orthoplan - a fantastic 'scope with beautiful optics - some of the type that I can't even dream o...

If I were you, I'd buy them both for those very reasonable prices and worry about the logistics later. The 'special' condenser does occasionally appear for sale and as the Leitz has a slide-in mount it takes only a second to swap-out the std one and of course to turn the knob that swing's the built-...

As above - Plan is UIS1 and Plan N is UIS2 - a coating difference I believe. I think the 'CN' designated those fitted to the CX range, the 'just N' for the BX series. I've compared both 'CN' and 'just N' on the same 'scope (BX40 and BX50) and there's absolutely no difference either by eyepiece of ca...

I'd say Michael has the jist - I suspect that as Kohler is defined primarily as uniformity of field illumination, rather than the accepted means by which it's achieved (i.e. field diaphragm and condenser height)... The LED may be deemed to give a uniform field, regardless of it's diameter? The corre...

Must agree with above here, the binocular is in my experience a far, far better choice for this reason alone. Brunel as already said, is a very reliable company from whom I've purchased 'scopes both old and brand-new in my 5-years and counting with a microscope. The SM-LUX is a beautifully made 'sco...

Hi, this is an issue I've struggled with to varying extents for the 5 years or so that I've been making slides. The haze that the dratted old and/or cheapo coverslips almost always seem to have to the effect of making them useless has plagued me also. The sure(est)-fire and only way I've found to ac...

Hi, sorry all the parts of my old BX40 are now sold, except the nosepiece adapter U-READB

Hi, I'm afraid I just can't make sense of the images, there's just a combination of too much magnification and too little resolution I'm afraid.
This is a pity because it's an interesting subject. I can't with any confidence identify the structures you mention....

Maybe algae of some klind? Not my area but someone here will know for sure. Pretty good images these.

Ahhh, one of my personal favourites, the 'fox and cubs' as many call it in the U.K. Often when we're out & about in the jalopy and I spot an interesting-looking wildflower (living in the Lake District iut in the leafy-lanes) my Wife will leap out and grab a sample for me! On one such occasional a fe...

The listing-link I posted earlier says that the listing 'has ended' - perhaps it's been snapped-up.
At £99 it's/was a pretty fair deal in my limited experience of the 'Olympian World' of microscopy...

There's an NFK 2.5 just popped-up on e-bay - here's the link...
I've bought (and sold) from/to this seller - totally reliable, and no connection to myself of course.

Hmm, the first three look a lot like a squashed & 'popped' pollen-grain, if they're between about 20-40µ diameter..

Ah, yes, the little craters that are left! I like your approach - makes a nice change from the high-precision stuff.
Looking forward to your next adventure!

That's definitely true - they do have their own style, which does indeed make a change from the super-sharp versions.
Good-thinking viktor, I also like the many different subjects being explored, always interesting.

Hi, which part of the Dandelion are these from? It's a little hard to make-out so close-in.

May I ask what equipment you're using to take images, there may be a way to make them a little clearer.

Please keep-up the variety of your posts, always worth reading/looking at.

Hi, for all stages involving alcohol I use isopropanol - purchased a '99.99% pure' etc - actually it's about 95%. This is easily pure enough to be considered and used as 'pure' alcohol for all tasks. I've been using it for 5 years+ now for plant histology, including all stages of dehydration and eve...

Ditto the above - all good advice re mountant/s.

Looks a beauty! Congratulations.
It really does look solidly made, very nice.

When calibrating the measurement system with MICAM and indeed with ToupView, which is also able to measure images not captured with the program, the pixels per inch value is the factor that sets the measurement calibrations per defined objective.... So, if the PPI value is different from when measur...

Hi, here's an example I made back in 2016 of a video stitched with MS-ICE. The final stitched image is at the end of this edited/annotated video... BUdiM1wfeT8 Here's a video-scan I took this evening of part of a microscope-slide (sectioned at 5µ and stained with safranin + fast-green stains) Cat's ...

Very nice - a superb image of the foxglove.
I like the presentation very much, with the example pollen-grain included.
Nicely-done!

They look like pine pollen, the 'lumps' either side being air-sacs to act as flotation-devices during pollen's transport via water - if they are indeed pollen...

I see them both Michael, the top pair appear concave and the bottom pair not quite convex, more 'just 3D' as it were... Urk! Just tried a weird thing.... Scrolling the (bottom pair of) images off of the bottom of my screen while seeing the 3D merged image didn't 'break lock' as I expected it may. Wh...

Hmm, I too have no problem seeing the stereo merged image. I just look at the line between the two images and as soon as any sort of 'unconscious' focus starts to occur I consciously focus on a part of the image that's appearing. When I get focus two peripheral images come-into view (one either side...

Congrats!
That looks to be a beauty, and as you say, ready to build upon.
Looking forward to it's arrival.

Price sounds fine to me, you've a couple of very nice 'extras' there, the ergo head and the incident-light fitting!

Hi, I certainly find a cheap LED ringlight very useful indeed on my stereo. I also use fiber-optic gooseneck (Schott) lamps for extra illumination from all angles. Over time I find that the ringlight has become almost exclusively my 'goto' incident light source for the stereo - the hassle of adjusti...