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The white disk is thin polystyrene (Styrofoam) which I put ontop of the light because it's so bright!

We have darkfield!

Excellent set!

Excellent! Hang on I have a drawing of this I made in the 80s...(runs to photobucket)...

mrsonchus wrote:Wow, I'm very pleased that creature is tiny! It looks terrifying.

Yea imagine if they were the size of your family dog!

billbillt wrote:That is very cool!... Anyway you can zoom in some more?...
BillT

Afraid not, it's long gone

Excellent images!

I was showing the kids some prepared slides of plant cells and came across something on one of the slides. It turns out that some kind of mite has crawled onto the outside of the cover slip and died. It was orange/yellow in colour, could just see it with the naked eye. http://img.photobucket.com/alb...

Well I was given an LED lamp and got to try it out today. It's not ideal and even at its lowest setting it's unbelievably bright! I can't remember how to set the condenser properly, but it doesn't help that the screw holding it in lost its thread and fell out! I can move it up and down by hand! Scop...

Welcome Larry! Saw your post on Facebook about you trying to register here. The questions are a bit ambiguous to gain access here. I think I said raise the tube instead of stage also. Yea it fixed me, then I realised later that modern scopes raise the stage, whereas older scopes like mine raise the...

Thanks guys

apochronaut wrote:Is the edge of the field stop( the circular field edge) ,when you look through the 10X eyepiece, with your eyes crisply defined or fuzzy?

The edge is sharp visually, just like the 'good' photo above. I can live with the black circle. But not the encroaching blackness I get when using the camera.

mrsonchus wrote:Super image, great detail, shapes and colours - a really interesting part of the plant - well posted!

Thanks

Looks like a lovely clear image to me, the higher the magnification the smaller the FOV of course, but I'd just crop off the circle - thats really all a lens that doesn't include the 'black region' does I think. Looks a great image to me personally. :) Yes it's fine when I use the 5x eyepiece, for ...

There are two ways around that vignetting problem. Zoom, the camera, if it has zoom and for a small outlay, replace the standard huygens eyepiece with a wider field version. This is what I mean, when I use an eyepiece other than the 5x (10x eyepiece here) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/Dawnr...

There are two ways around that vignetting problem. Zoom, the camera, if it has zoom and for a small outlay, replace the standard huygens eyepiece with a wider field version. Sometimes these are available for almost nothing, anymore. Out of curiousity, mostly.... I did a bit of business in the 90's ...

JimT wrote:A very good image.

Thanks Jim!

Very interesting, I like the fact that you can clearly see the stomata!

75RR wrote:Agree with gekko. Stacking software is free - worth a go. No need to post until you are happy with the results

Free stacking software?

75RR wrote:Very nice image.
I find that afocal works very well although I found it, as no doubt you do, somewhat unwieldy.

Oh god yea! I have to balance the camera over the eyepiece, set the self timer, hold my breath and hope!

gekko wrote:Absolutely first class photomicrograph, sharp with excellent detail and beautiful colors. I look forward to more beautiful pictures . What ISO did your camera use?

Thanks. I'm pretty sure I set it to 100, tho it might have been on auto.

Looks like a very nice little microscope that you can do a lot with. I think the person behind the microscope is more important for getting good results than the microscope itself (assuming reasonable optics, which yours certainly has). Thanks. It does the job I just need to rig up a decent light s...

Ayup damflask, you must be a fellow Brit, Yorkshire?

I have a Pelargonium on the windowsill that I bred myself and I took a faded flower to dissect. I took the photo with my canon compact held over the eyepiece (afocal), it's the only option I have. That and my phone. 5x eyepiece /4x Meiji objective http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/Dawnrider/Micr...

Fabulous shots, I have fond memories of seeing Vorticella for the first time years ago.

Beautiful looking old machine! I love old scopes.

Fabulous piece of kit. Not jealous at all

This is my generic Chinese student scope. It was bought in the 90s from Brunel Microscopes in Bristol (I think) and has the model number XSP 13A. It's gone through a few changes over the years:sold the 100x oil immersion objective -never used it. Received a 4x Meiji objective from a forum friend (be...

Hi, Larry here, a 48 year old plant obsessed nature nut interested in just about everything! I have a basic student monocular scope bought in the 90s from Brunel microscopes. It used to go up to 1250x but I'm more interested in the lower magnifications these days. There's a lot to be seen below 100x...