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Simple isolation technique for a target organism: elongated water drop on a slide..scan with 4X objective...quick 'slurp' with a pipet of region where a target organism is observed...transfer this sample to a second slide for wet-mount/ coverslip observations. For me, the curious finding of a large ...

Using bottled spring water, I flooded shavings off tree limb moss coatings. After four hours outdoor ambient temperature , I placed the flooded shavings at my microscopy bench,

Happy Halloween to all, I have a huge Black Walnut tree in a meadow..the heavy and huge lower limbs make me cringe each time I mow grasses under this assortment of heavy ( and old!) lower limbs. Paying high cost..I had an arborist with a 'cherry-picker' truck, remove these huge limbs. I could not ga...

Hello, mazapata, so nice to sit in on your class and listen to your students. Thank you! It would be wonderful if after showing this video...it would really help if you could include a few paused frames with the organism in the better focus. I do see glimpses of ventral appendages on numerous sectio...

Yes, yes, thank you, polymerase. Please all microscopists take a peek at this article! charlie g

thanks for looking, if you can...could you put a proper link in this thread, scoper?

thank you, charlie g

Hi all, again (no way is this a highjack of OP thread)...AI/chatGPT is nothing to be to touted as 'our best friend'. I sincerely mean this. Last month, across the road from our semi-rural land...a car ( it had to be medical crisis , or intoxicated driver) smacked into a utility-pole...and shattered ...

Within the OP thread context, AI/chatGPT...is not a best friend. I was using my less than a week ago experience with eBay's new AI setup to demonstrate problems with AI 'responses' on eBay. Opening my post here I noted chatGPT is far from a source of vetted science...and AI is the overarching driver...

Hi, all, I enjoyed a terrific article in January 2016 : "Optics&Photonics News" Really great account of developments in military optical grades of glass..just as WWI started. An actual: ' scramble for optical quality glass'. Similar in many ways to 'scramble in US, for a covid-19 vaccine'. best of l...

Wonderful microscopy, hkv, again..bravo and thanks. Two silly questions for you: 1) the depth of field for your SEM instrument can crisply capture the entire height and depth of a diatom frustle...never a concept of'image stacking with SEM at this magnification? 2) does your SEM setup have a nuisanc...

I apologize, micropunter. Citing family of our terrific forum founder..'hooked my child'. 'Who are you?!' was a reaction to you dropping family members of Olivers in a thread with no context at all to said family member's mention . I sense it was in poor taste...go figure. So, yes...'who are you to ...

Beautiful work, thank hkv.

Any idea how old this sample is ( aprox age)?

Your image captures are quite elegant. charlie g

Hi, micropunter,...chatGPT puts so much distance from actual 'vetted research' on oh so many areas of current science findings/ factual reality truths...why be so complacent as to partner with an 'AI' source for your growth in being alive and a participant in all of our reality? Perhaps it best for ...

Hi, Denis, thanks for visiting my post. Yup, good doggie and I often partner on open space, microscopy collection hikes. When we resided in Ridgewood/Bergen county, NJ....most of our microscopy collection hikes were north of us in: NJ highlands/ and NY Hariman, NY state park. I miss all the great fo...

Hi, Denis, thanks for visiting my post. Yup, good doggie and I often partner on open space, microscopy collection hikes. When we resided in Ridgewood/Bergen county, NJ....most of our microscopy collection hikes were north of us in: NJ highlands/ and NY Hariman, NY state park. I miss all the great fo...

I note that the cicada emerged from the soils perhaps in August, so that cicada shell sat through many rains, many days of sunshine, before I collected it 9/24/23. Consider making crude/undefined ( but from same insect source each time) media to enjoy microscopy with. charlie guevara, finger lakes/US

On 10/24/23 I sampled both cultures..cicada shell plate, and milkweed seed plate. These plates were both given a ten hour light cycle under a sheet of paper toweling. They each displayed a near monoculture of bacteria , each plate a different size of bacteria. The cicada shell ( years underground in...

I also collected milkweed seed ( still fluffing out of an exploded milkweed pod), to see if a few seeds would germinate in my crude culture media.

The milkweed seed plate grew no evident protozoa, but an enriched near monoculture of a specific bacteria.

Hi, all, please enjoy my microscopy activity ( from time to time) of compounding crude/ undefined media for use with protozoa, or algae species. Anyone whom gardens often notes: 'companion plants bolster growth of desired plants'...something about interactions of neighbor organisms ...helps a desire...

Hello, scoper, buried in this forums archived threads is a wonderful and very specific thread on: 'bench setups'..I got as far back as 8/1/17 thread "My microscope set up", by Moose. In PM's, moose explained to me that he was using microscopy of large mammal dung to follow specific plant diets...by ...

Hi, and thanks, apo, for your historical insights. My sense is that by the time 'infinity optics for microscopes' was offered...these graceful and organic round shaped stands...with so, so similar substage 'poultry drum-stick illuminators '..were all long on market..or failures ( Zeiss Opton) in the...

I'm getting these too, for a week at least. This very forum visit I have had two( 2) 'serving errors'..I go back, then go forward again..this clears up that interuption. charlie g

Immediate end of WWII, a group of Zeiss master microscope developers fled to' free world'...rather than be as a group transported to 'east Germany...or further away from 'the west'. Their master piece microscope: " Zeiss Opton W"..did not gain market traction due it's higher cost than ( some might s...

Microbob, thank you for you informative posts in this request for comments, and thank you for all your forum input.

Thanks for visiting my holiday cottage microscopy setup. all the best, charlie g, fingerlakes/US

I was fascinated about the organic form similarity of my Reichert/Austria Biozet, and this Carl/Zeiss Junior..both graceful stands with round ( not square) body., similar round bases.and the similar concepts in the substage illuminators for the Biozet, and the Juniors. I keep thinking of which maste...

Hobbyst46, thanks for your helpful comments ( and your many forum posts I benefit from). My reason for calling my new holiday cottage stand a: Carl/Zeiss Junior...internet images I encountered. For me a tad 'freeky' that the online Junior stand is displayed on a green formica table! Our cottage form...

Thank you all for giving me piece of mind regarding specs on Steindorf/Berlin transformer. Many of your posts in an excellent 2017 thread in this forum ( differences and types of objectives) were very informative for me regarding my new holiday cottage microscope, it replaces the Meopta, Czech field...

Now for the set up I placed on this stands turrent...again..visually for me..wonderful observations with all the objectives...the Leitz Wetzlar , FL ( spec engraved on the objective barrel: "FL") 63/0.85, 160/ 0.17 has very tight working distance. All four objectives are parfocol . My question...all...

The river shore scoop water sample provides more than a nights microscopy session of world views, it's always that 'microscopy world views' reality with a fresh collected/ fresh observed wetmount slide prep. With no trinoc-head on this stand...I feel regret I can not image capture our river-neighbor...

Hi all, our NY/US and Canada border river ( hello, apochronaut..please comment if/ when you can) cottage often has me enjoy night time microscopy on a kitchen formica table ( table older than me, maybee younger than my on holiday Carl/Zeiss Junior binoc/ bright-field stand). This shiny black enamel ...