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My mistake. I thought flatworms undulated (if that is the word) A sort of wavy motion.

Many thanks gekko. You can see the cilia if you really try. Now that I think about it I should have made a special effort to try and capture that characteristic. However locomotion is clearly by cilia movement - effortless. I was amazed how fast the poor guy got swallowed up. Agree. A little frighte...

Thanks JimT and Crater Eddie

Interesting. I would have expected them to have been disolved

Much more convenient!

:)

Great image and excellent subject for a new camera test.

Nice. Very snake like.

All very nice but love the second one.

16x, about 40µm at its widest point and 500 long, Oblique, Olympus E-p2

I have not managed to identify Mr Hungry, seemed to have very fine cilia on the edges. Just about visible in opening scene on its posterior.
I apologize for the smudges. On the hunt for them now.

Interesting, looks like an euglena. Was it transparent?

Amazing slides, thanks for the link and the images of it.

Nice Do like symmetry of spirogyra

That's getting up close and personal. Nice
What is the working distance ?

Looking much better.
Only other thing you might try is to remove the bulb, rotate it 180 degrees and put it back in.
The filaments are sometimes a little off center.

Lovely detail on that image. Well done.

A couple more photos in case you are still having a little trouble. The first one shows the illuminator joined to the collector tube. If you remove it from the base it is easier to work on and one can see by eye if it is pretty much centered. http://i1368.photobucket.com/albums/ag171/mapologo/x1_zps...

The reason the filament moves in an ellipse as you rotate it rather than around its own axis is because it is not centered. To center it you need to either screw in or unscrew the pins on the collecting tube - see images for their location and where they are accessed from. If complete they consist i...

This is my microscope with the condenser removed and a tracing paper placed over the stage. Notice how the filament is centered on the objective. It is a bit dark, should have turned more lights on.

I don't quite understand where the image of the filament is focused. Is the condenser removed? The image of the filament should not be visible at the level of the slide with the condenser in place. Apologies if I'm barking up the wrong tree. At the moment we are trying to center the filament direct...

Better. Should be directly under the objective.

The real question is what had you planned to do with the million dollar + prize money?
Were we all going to get our ideal microscope for xmas?

Here is an image with the set screw caps off, both set screw springs are completely compressed and both centering screws are completely tightened. I felt no need to bend the centering screws more. :-) http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss29 ... nation.jpg Image is of the filament almost focused, al...

Thanks Charles,
Long list. Would be nice if they were uploaded somewhere where people could access them. These thing get lost so easily.

Yes, I have some PDF manuals
GFL, Standards, POL Standards, Universal, PMI, PMII, PMIII, UltraphotII, ICM 35/405 and others

Different from the ones in this link? http://www.science-info.net/docs/zeiss/

I would not recommend looking at living creatures until you have the microscope correctly set up.

I would suggest that you buy a Stage Micrometer, you will need one anyway, size does matter in microscopy, they are available on ebay from China and are not too expensive. Use that to practice on.

This filter was in. Is it correct?: http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss29 ... filter.jpg That is not a blue filter, it looks like a Grey Filter http://www.ebay.com/sch/Business-Industrial-/12576/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=zeiss++filter&_pgn=3&_skc=100&rt=nc Blue looks ... sort of ... blue See link: ht...

So what is this stuff? Where do you get it, and how are you going about growing the crystals for examination?

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I have some Zeiss manuals...Just saying.

In PDF?

After all these weeks, I finally ... First off - don't forget the blue filter. Secondly, you need to work on setting up Köhler correctly. I think I already linked this. It is an excellent way to learn how to do it. http://zeiss-campus.magnet.fsu.edu/tutorials/basics/microscopealignment/indexflash.h...

Why, well, because, I don't have this in my collection.

Warning! That sort of reasoning can lead to a serious shortage of space. ;)

I would be more comfortable writing down "Brownian motion" if those individuals confirm it ... Will you be contacting them or are you hoping they will come across this topic? My first impression was that it was Brownian Motion but not a Diatom - I thought they were mutually exclusive. I now think t...