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Beautiful!

I found the remains of a large worm. Activity within the body cavity may be bacteria (I originally thought the movement was organelles in the cells).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBPAF4M-c5k

Thanks guys. The camera is fine. It's me. I am an amateur photographer. A lot of people in my camera club hate the way I use processing, even in regular photos. I'll get some right and some wrong. Thanks for your support. . I do like to play around and try all kinds of strange and silly devices to s...

I have a rudimentary microscope, the Amscope M150. I don't have a rear condenser or diaphragm. I take pictures with my Omax camera which makes 640X480 pixel images. I apologize but I am trying to play with the big boys and make some kind of contribution.

I see these all the time in a similar water sample.

They are jpegs. I processed them with Paintshop Pro.

I use top lighting for dark field images because I don't have a real filter holder. I've been experimenting with making a pseudo diaphragm for my top stage light. The question is, does a small aperture make my top-stage illumination sharper in dark field. I cut a 2 mm hole in a piece of aluminum foi...

Bacteria quickly breeding in water where a large squash was immersed over the winter. There many kinds. The funny thing is I could barely make them out optically through the eyepiece but the eyepiece camera revealed them very clearly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChWKDQHRmMI

medium and high power

Who needs a brain when you can do this. Wonderful photos. The look like Grecian Urns.

Very impressive! I agree with you completely. The beautiful thing about art originating out of microscopy is that it is depicting the real world in a way that casual observers never see it. The Texture on a Fly's Thigh The world the days of the world carry me further away from the habitual and the f...

Most cameras will work as alternative camera on the Windows 10 camera app.

My algae culture had a big bloom of spores and almost all the larger protozoans seem to have disappeared. My lower two objectives reveal nothing moving. In the high power I see this. They seem to be about 75 microns in diameter. Are they bacteria? bacteriasharp2.jpg bacteriasharp1.jpg bacteria.jpg h...

These were excellent, vivid pictures. I'd never seem anything like it. You must be a very patient man.

How about muscelage--you know the old fashioned clear paper glue?

thanks john. I'm new at this bear with me.

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I have some great specimens of algae with diatoms. Is it possible to preserve these? How? How do you use nail polish in making permanent slides?

Your link is broken. I's really like to see your setup. Can you link it again?

Thanks KD

Whole flower images
stem, petals, pollen makes and catchers, pollen grains

In medium power. my plant rooting water sample seemed empty of life except for scraps of dead matter. But when I went to high power, it was teeming. I think the organisms were bacteria not visible at medium power.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmfFj1QnwCM

Thanks for your outburst of creative critique. Nice to meet you.

I got a sample from my son's salt water aquarium. The water was in there for about a month. The diatoms didn't appear for me until the biofilm built up.

Is this a stereo microscope? What kind of magnification?

It was in a closed bottle--but I received the original water sample from my son who has a salt water aquarium. It's been in the small bottle for a two months or so. At first it was overrun with algae harboring long worms. Then the algae produced multitudes of spores. The spores seems to have formed ...

Thanks Sir.

I have water samples in small prescription bottles. Biofilms have been developing, floating on top. They appear to be made mostly of the spores of algae fused with a bunch of skeletons and fibers. I found many diatoms in it--many of them look like just the silicon shells are left. I made some pictur...