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Had to really search for the pollen as it is inside the anthers.
You learn something new every day.
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My father used to tell this story:- To earn money when he was young (14) he used to collect blackberries and sell them to the old folks in the village. One day there was a film at the cinema he wanted to see (Dracula or Frankenstein, I forget which). He had collected a full bowl that he was sure wou...

Walking next to the golf course and found this :-

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Good to know it was a bit confusing.

I have never had a problem with dirty cover glasses even ones that I have used. Soap water and kitchen towel to dry works for me.

yes those German to English translations can be a bit 'trippy'.

I wonder. What is a slow motion head?

according to the artical they say: 'This ample scope in the choice of the illumination is very advantageous, since certain structures of objects are known to be discernible only when struck bv light incident at a definite azimuthal angle and a definite inclination, which are frequently unknown at th...

Hi MicaelG.
If you are looking for narrow beam LED's you can get them down to 15 degrees from Conrad.
See here:-

https://www.conrad.de/de/p/thomsen-led- ... 80001.html

Must be nice to have access to a scanning electron microscope. You don't say if the SEM is at work or in your back room. Very nice image, I think the flakes are probably pollen kit (maybe coated in gold).

From our garden growing through the lawn in many places. It's manly in alpine regions, so must have been a plant purchased in the past (not by us) and has spread through the garden.

Another Update on the Foxglove. It is now 206 cm and still growing.

Use a file instead of a cutting tool, much less torque.

Hans. I give up. It sounds as though you are suggesting that I can get a lethal shock from getting out of my car and touching the metal of the door. :x I never suggested that 75RR goes around his house touching all his electrical items to see if he gets a shock, I was simply suggesting that he may g...

I said from other items, NOT the camera. Again you cannot get a shock from a 5V USB cable, and you can not put 240 volts through a USB cable without melting it and blowing up the camera.

A T4 torx wrench is .053 inches across the points so all you need is a T4 torx screw.

Edit: See here for sizes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torx

Hi 75RR. Interesting reading. In the summer (like now) I always get a static shock when getting out of my car, not so in the winter. I will have to try touching the window before the door. :D Edit: Nylon is one of the worst offenders for causing static electricity shocks. The old trick of rubbing yo...

I don't see how a 5volt USB adapter can give you a shock unless you stick your fingers in the socket that you have the USB adapter plugged into.

An update on the foxglove growing in our back garden. When I did the first post it was 153 cm tall. It is now 184cm and still has half the flower stack to blume.

Hi 75RR, Static electricity. Dry air, nylon carpet, plastic shoes. Your camera with the adapter attached could only supply a maximum of 5v x 500ma not enough to even give you a tingle. Try putting your wet tongue over the contacts of a 9v battery you will see what I mean, tastes yuck but no harm don...

Hi Don, you should watch Olivers channel on microscopy. It's not possible to see any more detail with a so called magnification above 1000x because of the properties of light. Anything above 1000 is empty magnification, in other words there is no more detail to see.

Good idea I have a couple of old car mounts I will have to take a look at, thanks for the tip.

Hi 75RR I have looked at holders but couldn't find anything at the moment, will need more thinking about especially as the eyepiece head moves up and down when focusing. The biggest problem with the focus is the small screen on the camera. There is also an HDIM out on the camera but I have not tried...

Just working through the samples from our latest field trip to the Harz mountains and trying to figure out how to measure and present them. Here is my first attempt based on how I displayed the pollen series of posts. The main image is a closeup of the mineral with a scale bar added. The scale bar s...

Everyone want's to 'Buy' these days. Where has skill and innovation gone? Well done for giving something that was sitting in a box and likely to end up in landfill, a second life. Congratulations on your innovative skills we should all try harder, after all that's what brought us down from the trees...

We are thinking about a trip to Denmark in late August (fossils again). Hoping that all is better by then. We just had confirmation that our mineral course in Clausthal-Zellerfeld in September has been postponed until next year :cry: accomodation was all booked and arranged will just have to go it a...

Hi Bob, you can't have everything, we went for fossils (and minerals of course) and only found tiny plant remains. Good job we had the scope with us as you needed it to see them.

Hi Bob,

We just got back from the Harz and we took our stereo microscope with us 'no slides required', along with a hammer.
Weather was wonderful and the rocks outstanding.

One from the garden amazing how many plants are used for medicinal purposes.

I have been using postimage.org to host my images for this forum. Until recently all has worked fine. Image shows on my posts, you could even click on the image and see it in full resolution on the postimage website until a few days ago. Now when you click on the image all you see is the postimage l...