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... these cells apparently are elasic and change their shape to accomodate the inner volume of the vessel they travel through ...

Interesting. Is this a mouse thing ?

Excellent images

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I am just waiting now, for a relaxed nematode to make it's entrance.

That would be a first :)

It seems the choice of light source, eyepieces and objectives are key to making it a good or bad tool.

Illumination and the objectives are probably the two most important components, I would choose skill as the third.

Very nice image

Thanks. Useful info.

A well written salutary lesson for us all. Thanks for the link!

Congratulations! Both on the video and on giving Protistology a step up. Had thought amateur contributions were effectively limited to the 19th Century. No longer. Agree that (without the information you supplied) it did indeed look like it was building a Lorica of some sort. I know modesty preclude...

Good catch. Excellent darkfield image. Like the close-up of the eggs too.

Great images. You are managing to capture some very fine detail. Well done.

I did lower the condenser and spots were still visible. Spots were visible without an objective so I ruled that out as well. Since I image using eyepiece projection I took a photo with just the eyepiece to rule out if the spot are on one of the eyepiece lens surfaces. They are not. Looks like we ar...

I have cleaned the sensor...

Could you tell us what you used to clean the sensor?

Definitely dust on camera sensor.
I seem to add more every time I try to remove them.
Only really visible when magnified by the microscope.
Do a web search on cleaning camera sensors.

They say never clean the internal components of a microscope ... This was written for laboratory personnel in institutions that have a service/maintenance contract with Zeiss. It is a bit like the void clause when you open up an electronic appliance that is still under a guarantee. It is true howev...

Nice clean images.

What element is meant by the phrase "The cover of the opening through which light exits"?

Sounds like a translation from German :) I believe it refers to the glass cover of the light source for example.

Zeiss pdf on cleaning microscopes. I imagine it is applicable to all makes.

https://www.zeiss.com/content/dam/Micro ... -zeiss.pdf
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Just a guess but might the stage fit into a grove ?
If that is the case you might have to pull it towards you rather than lift to take it out.

Three first-rate images.

Excellent images

If you suspect that a stereo microscope is not what you need , here is one of the standard workhorse student diasopic microscopes of the past 30 or 40 years. It is a monocular. The price is excellent, and they have been tested. In the future ,if the interest grows, a binocular head is available for...

Agree that a stereo microscope is probably the best introduction to microscopy for a child.
There is plenty to see at low magnifications.
I think it is also important to keep within budget when possible - if and when the child's interest develops, better microscopes can be budgeted for and purchased.

Very good effect.

Nice and sharp image. Interesting shape.
A quick search on the web reveals that pollen is a much more interesting subject than I had supposed.

Hi kinase, squirming guy looks like a nematode. To embed a youtube video, click on the youtube button in the toolbar and insert the video id. in between the brackets. In your video's case that would be: ucT6tdBZRB4 ...flickr sharpens downsizes of photos and it looks funny You might want to reduce th...

Nice image.

Have you had a look in the The Ciliate Diversity Chart?

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For those of you thinking of dabbling in Crystal Microscopy for the first time.

http://www.iucr.org/__data/assets/pdf_f ... /20_US.pdf

Much more visible. They look longer and more profuse than I expected.

Two very nice images + very nice catch. Nice finding,but its not amoeba it is a Dinoflagellate and more precisely Ceratium sp. Glad it has been identified, did not think it was an amoeba but had no idea what it was. Found one on youtube that shows the flagellum it uses to move. (Hope that is ok JimT...