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Welcome! Do not be put off from posting your images or videos! There are few on here who shoot through their smartphones and produce beyond excellent images! Where can I host them, youtube? Have never uploaded video. here is a pic, remember, you were warned! I have no idea what it is but it swims a...

But I use 70% alcohol and acetone most frequently while cleaning vintage stands. Don’t really use any of them with Protista. Are you using phase contrast? I get the best results with it hunting amoeba. Dark field and oblique illumination works well too. DIC is still just beyond my reach, but I’m st...

Thanks for the welcomes, and encouragement guys. I look forward to reading some of your posts as well. @Hobbyst46, When I saw it on ebay I did some research and realized immediately the potential for using the petri dishes and flasks which is all I currently intend to use on it. To me the idea of ke...

Killed by sample contamination perhaps? was much else alive? I rinse my slides in tank water now as I have loaded a few in the past where all the organisms were as dead as hammers.

Yes, excellent employment of darkfield, amazing detail.

Those ribs running down from the top are wing like, or a hairy plant leaf?

It's an interesting thing - I've noticed that microscopy hobbyists tend to also be amateur astronomers far more often than the reverse is true. Wonder why? I think it's just a lot easier to get an astronomer to leave the cold open skies than to get a microscopist to leave a comfortable gas lift off...

This is one of those finds I’ve only ever heard about. Here is an immaculate Nikon Labophot-2 that sat forgotten in a cabinet for 20 years. Hi radazz, good score on the Nikon, I love how all these quality microscopes come up for sale and there is no competition for them :) Just an unrelated questio...

Hi guys. I'm in Brisbane Australia and a few weeks ago bought an old Olympus ECE-Bi off gumtree at a cheap price. I have been steadily learning the ropes, observing organisms from the local creek, and reconditioning the microscope as I go. The scope was pretty dirty and had a lot of crud on the opti...