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Wow, excellent image! Amazing detail! I might have missed a previous post where this information is available but what scope/objectives are you using? Your DIC images are very impressive! The scope is an Olympus BX51. I have UplanFl-Ph 5-100X, UplanSAPO 5-100X and MPlan/LMPlan 1.25-100X If I rememb...

Can this be a better identification? I found this in a book:

Protozoological Monographs - Wilhelm Foisser and Martin Kreutz.

It is an excellent book!

Looks VERY similar. Eudorina Elegant.

Radazz wrote:Here is a shot of all 16

Nice selection! I think my avatar is in there!

Now, can we see close-ups of each and one, with the 10x, 20x, 40x and 60x in Phase, Brightfiled, dark field and oblique. And all possible combinations of above.

This is very interesting! Thanks for posting the link. Showed it to my wife which freaked out

Thank you all for your comments! I had great fun with this series. Too bad I forgot to take a stack with the 5X objective. I only got half the body on picture. And by the way... :oops: :oops: :oops: I am ashamed. Insects don't have blood or blood vessels. They have Trachea. Air pipes which transport...

Very cool series! First time I see the amoeba crawling out of the test

Great catch! In image 2 it looks like you have a spirogyra. Also I can clearly see the diatoms and yes, they are a life form.

I was browsing through a bottle of water from my local ponds when I found this one. I believe it is an aquatic insect larvae, possible a Mayfly, but the size is very small. Around 2-3 mm. 10X objective https://www.dropbox.com/s/t682mjyfv90bf3g/Larvae_half_body_1_1024.jpg?dl=1 The head and eye seems ...

Ahh! Different colors. This one found more dark rocks.

Super! The details are amazing!

I have them also, but no scratches

Gecko, I was inspired by your post and had to go scientific... 8-) :shock: I zoomed the first image to the max in my browser and cut out a piece of details. Then I cut out the same area in the second cropped image. Them I normalized them to 640x480. There is actually a little better resolution in th...

Really nice image. Do you have polarising options? I seem to remember Charles (Krebs) posting a very colourful image similar to yours but with extra colour via crossed polars. Might be barking up the wrong tree.... (Oh and I realise that you may not have the critter in question now but maybe next t...

Excellent work: a very beautiful, colorful, sharp image that shows the building blocks of the shell very nicely. I'm with 75RR that I don't think that the 2nd image adds anything to what the first shows. Thank you! Well, the second image adds value as I mostly use mobile devices for viewing. Also, ...

Very nice and clean! Like straight out of a school book. Looks like a wing

Very interesting. I have never seen them in their colonial form before. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for your comments! It is amazing how such a small and single cell critter can produce such a thing.

Very beautiful! Great work!

75RR wrote:Nice to have such a place near by, the ponds are a great bonus.
Have you counted the number of lakes and ponds?

I find fountains are also a good source to collect samples from.

Maybe 10-15 including all fountains.

I found this one when browsing through the sample. At first, I thought is was a small rock, but I went back and saw the beauty and symmetric shape. 40X, Polarized light. 23 images in stack. I am NOT sure about the identification, but it looks like Difflugia Acuminata. Testate amoebae build a test or...

Last week I collected water samples from the ponds at the garden of the Royal Palace in Sweden "Drottningholm". It is a short walk from my home and the condition seemed perfect. I cannot understand why I have not collected sample from these ponds before as I basically can see it from my house. Small...

If you look at things at 1000x magnifications and they are hotdog shaped (rod shaped), it is most likely bacteria. They are everywhere. At that level of magnification, the microscope is extremely sensitive to vibration. If you touch the scope, even the slightest, fiddling with iPhone on top of the e...

Hmm, yes. I think you may be correct. My identification skills are not the best either. Pandorina sp. is perhaps a safer bet. The identification I did was based on a book I have about "life in ponds and lakes in Scandinavia". But, when looking at the pictures on the internet, I am not so sure anymor...

Beautiful image, captured the mucilage nicely - like the paler background as well. Do you have a size for it? 46 stack. That is a lot (very good stack by the way) but then it would need a large number to capture so much depth. Each internal cell has two flagella and an eyespot. Think I can make out...

Green Algae - Pandorina Morum I assume. 20X objective. 46 stack. DIC. The colony is held together by a surrounding gel (mucilage). Each internal cell has two flagella and an eyespot. The colonies coordinate their flagellar movement to create a rolling, swimming motion. Finally after the water starte...

Volvox can vary quite a bit in size, it's possible you just got an unusually large one that time? Here's a shot through a Canon 60mm macro lens with extension tubes showing a bunch of Volvox, a Conochilus colony, and an Ostracod for size comparison. I have examined Volvox under cover slips on gener...

Awesome! Great image!

I can understand your view and sometimes you want an image to be focused on details. In other cases you want an image that is nice to look at. Now we have several versions in this thread so I guess we are all happy.

Nice colors! Are these phase or did you just use the phase objectives without the phase plates?

Very cool! Much more complicated structure than I would imagine from a tape.