Can you tell what the species are that we're looking at? And maybe a brief description, or better yet, pix of, the slides?
Thanks for posting in any case, it's very interesting to see!
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- Sat Dec 11, 2021 1:04 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Some wood in polarization
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6698
- Tue Dec 07, 2021 1:11 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Squatinella Rotifer
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1943
Re: Squatinella Rotifer
Nice! I haven't run across one of these in a long time, yet it remains one of my more memorable finds for some reason.
I always wonder where in the world that name comes from?
I always wonder where in the world that name comes from?
- Mon Dec 06, 2021 12:54 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: 2 more Stalingrad Diatoms
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2674
Re: 2 more Stalingrad Diatoms
Beautiful! Man, that Campy image was a lot of work, but it sure paid off!
- Sun Dec 05, 2021 12:48 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Centric diatom from stalingrad
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2538
Re: Centric diatom from stalingrad
Oblique view of a complete frustule - quite a unique accomplishment in diatoms, bravo!
- Wed Dec 01, 2021 3:04 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Continuing Adventures with the Zeiss WL
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5253
Re: Continuing Adventures with the Zeiss WL
lorez, it's great to see you too, I've been wondering how you're doing lately. Hope all is well with you and yours.
- Tue Nov 30, 2021 3:06 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Continuing Adventures with the Zeiss WL
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5253
Re: Continuing Adventures with the Zeiss WL
Well see there, I'm glad I said something. That's a very interesting thread that I must have missed the first time around. Spectacularly nice images, too!
- Tue Nov 30, 2021 3:05 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Continuing Adventures with the Zeiss WL
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5253
Re: Continuing Adventures with the Zeiss WL
Tim, if you want my opinion of Nanodyne products, this is my second one - how's that? The first one came with my BHS BH-2, which I purchased from a member of this forum, and although the 100W lamphouse was also included, I never used it so I never compared them. All I know is that the Nanodyne prov...
- Mon Nov 29, 2021 8:38 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Continuing Adventures with the Zeiss WL
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5253
Re: Continuing Adventures with the Zeiss WL
Tim, if you want my opinion of Nanodyne products, this is my second one - how's that? The first one came with my BHS BH-2, which I purchased from a member of this forum, and although the 100W lamphouse was also included, I never used it so I never compared them. All I know is that the Nanodyne provi...
- Mon Nov 29, 2021 1:33 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Bacillaria paxillifer - Diatom
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2744
Re: Bacillaria paxillifer - Diatom
Boy, that's a big old colony! Such fascinating things -- how and why do they do it?
- Sun Nov 28, 2021 10:33 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Continuing Adventures with the Zeiss WL
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5253
Re: Continuing Adventures with the Zeiss WL
Thanks for the kind comments, all! Doran: Yes, the wooden riser is self made. But I'm an old cabinetmaker among other things, so it was the easiest thing I did all day. Wes: I'm not sure I understand the question? There's a PK 2.5x photo 'eyepiece' inside the photo tube if that's what you're asking?...
- Sat Nov 27, 2021 7:22 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Continuing Adventures with the Zeiss WL
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5253
Continuing Adventures with the Zeiss WL
Ever since I got an Olympus BHS BH-2, some folks have wondered what shall become of my old Zeiss WL? Nothing drastic, I will be hanging on to it. As I've often said: it's one microscope that's as much fun to look at as look through, and will be displayed as art in my home if absolutely nothing else....
- Wed Nov 24, 2021 6:39 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Just A Few Diatoms
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2527
Re: Just A Few Diatoms
Indeed, diatoms.org is probably the primary go-to resource for any diatom enthusiast, and particularly so for those of us in the US. But it's far from a complete/definitive key, and in fact with diatoms there is no such thing. Meanwhile, the Navicula genus is one of the largest groups, and it'd be e...
- Wed Nov 24, 2021 4:38 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Just A Few Diatoms
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2527
Re: Just A Few Diatoms
Fan! Abandon the Black Beauty?! Perish the thought! No, I haven't abandoned it - to the contrary, in fact, I've upgraded it with a Nanodyne LED. But I've wanted an Olympus for so long that now that I have it I can hardly tear myself away from it. I love your question regarding the C. lewisii form, a...
- Wed Nov 24, 2021 2:20 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Just A Few Diatoms
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2527
Just A Few Diatoms
I just got home from another long road trip - I believe I've been on the road more than at home so far this year, whew! Anyway, it's sure nice to settle back in my beautiful lovely lab and play around with super duper microscopes, which is always so luxurious after using my less well equipped travel...
- Wed Nov 24, 2021 1:51 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Craticula cuspidata
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2958
Re: Craticula cuspidata
I don't think anybody wrings out a Zeiss planapo 63/1.4 quite like 75RR! It's a very nice shot; Craticula isn't easy to resolve, and it's even more challenging to resolve in an image. Here, it's been neatly and cleanly done.
- Tue Nov 23, 2021 2:11 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Just got my diatom test slide!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6982
Re: Just got my diatom test slide!
So where are these test slides coming from? Diatom Lab?
- Mon Nov 08, 2021 1:49 am
- Forum: For forum members who want to buy and sell equipment
- Topic: Wanted to buy Nikon Diaphot TMD DIC components
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2946
Re: Wanted to buy Nikon Diaphot TMD DIC components
FYI: The TMD uses a single combining prism on the eyepiece side of the objectives. Take a look at this for all the details:
https://www.photomacrography.net/forum/ ... p?p=263866
https://www.photomacrography.net/forum/ ... p?p=263866
- Fri Nov 05, 2021 2:17 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Rotifer: Squatinella rostrum
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2724
Re: Rotifer: Squatinella rostrum
Should anyone care to elaborate on the retrocerebral organ, I would be happy to hear it. I tried a brief search, but in truth I have little time for it just now but would still like to learn a bit more. PS: Squatinella is an old favorite of mine too, such an interesting character to happen across in...
- Thu Nov 04, 2021 12:45 am
- Forum: For forum members who want to buy and sell equipment
- Topic: OLYMPUS FOR SALE - retiring from microscopy.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3710
Re: OLYMPUS FOR SALE - retiring from microscopy.
Now there's voice given to what many of us have been wondering...
- Mon Aug 16, 2021 1:22 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Actinoptychus sp.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5033
Re: Actinoptychus sp.
Those are lovely images 75!
- Mon Jun 14, 2021 12:49 am
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: Had To Buy IT!!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4114
Re: Had To Buy IT!!
I'm having a terrible jealous attack.
- Mon Jun 07, 2021 12:35 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: epiphytic cyanobacteria
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1873
Re: epiphytic cyanobacteria
+1 It's a great image and I'm glad to have seen it, thanks for posting!
- Sun May 09, 2021 12:54 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: melosira + pleurosigma
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3152
Re: melosira + pleurosigma
Indeed, a perfectly lovely image!
- Sun Apr 25, 2021 1:05 pm
- Forum: For forum members who want to buy and sell equipment
- Topic: Microscopes for sale
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3611
Re: Microscopes for sale
Lorez, I can be reached by email using ngc704 @ either aol.com or gmail.com (strangely enough, the AOL address, which I've had since 1992, has been the most reliable of the dozen or so email addys I've used and/or accumulated over the years, and still is). I hope to hear from you at some point or an...
- Sat Apr 24, 2021 2:07 am
- Forum: For forum members who want to buy and sell equipment
- Topic: Microscopes for sale
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3611
Re: Microscopes for sale
Long time no see or hear from, I've been wondering where and how you've been...
I've been looking for an Olympus BH2-UCD Universal Condenser.
I've been looking for an Olympus BH2-UCD Universal Condenser.
- Fri Apr 09, 2021 12:41 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Melosira nummuloides
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1887
Re: Melosira nummuloides
Oooooh, very nice - a beautiful diatom that's a real challenge to get good images of!
- Wed Mar 24, 2021 12:21 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Amphipleura pellucida diatom
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2438
Re: Amphipleura pellucida diatom
Yep - looks pretty convincing to me, I'd be proud if it were mine! Well done sir!
- Sun Mar 21, 2021 2:55 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: International Day of Happiness - 20 March
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2306
- Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:03 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Rockport, Texas Diatoms
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6840
Re: Rockport, Texas Diatoms
Thanks again, all! Your kind words are truly humbling... In other news, what appeared to be filamentous algae has been revealed under the microscope to be vast numbers of diatoms inhabiting mucilaginous tubes formed by the cells of the colony, reminding millions of urban freeways during rush hour. B...
- Mon Mar 08, 2021 10:14 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Rockport, Texas Diatoms
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6840
Re: Rockport, Texas Diatoms
Thank you all very much, the kind comments are especially appreciated coming from this particular group. 75RR, I have to say that you and Mr Krebs are my chief sources of inspiration, and I thank you both especially. Fan: My apologies for being unresponsive lately, but there have been family calamit...