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Thank you: very nice setup and excellent images.

Very nice images and colors. What equipment did you use for these?

Many thanks, 75RR. On my E-P1, what I do is set "custom white balance" in still mode (I use Aperture Priority because I don't use an attached camera lens) using a blank (clear) area on the slide. I'm not 100% sure, but I've been assuming that the white balance set in still mode also applies to video...

If I had to guess, I would say that you are right given the red eye.

Very nice. What image editing software do you use? I ask because, at least to my taste, your image, excellent as it is, can, nevertheless, be a bit more contrasty and sharpened slightly.

75RR, thank you for your suggestion. At first blush, I also thought that the protrusions (including the "stems") were pseudopods of amoeba, but, at least for the short duration that I watched them, nothing moved. Also, I took multiple images for a focus stack (not shown) and I saw nothing "inside" t...

I found these in water from a pothole in the yard after it had been raining for a while. I don't remember seeing something like that before. Many thanks for suggestions of what they might be. Objective: 20x. 1. Oblique illumination: http://i1070.photobucket.com/albums/u494/micritter/images%20through...

May I encourage forum members to give Oliver explicit permission to use their images in the Microbe Hunter Magazine? There are superb images posted to the forum that deserve to be seen by a wider audience. I believe (and I hope Oliver will confirm this) that the members retain completely their copyr...

Those are very nice (no justification needed ).

This is an old video; I post it because it is colorful (in contrast to the scuticocilliate video which was devoid of color). I think this might be Thecamoeba . Objective: 20x; illumination: DIC; camera: Olympus E-P1; duration: about 3 minutes (please click on vimeo to view in HD). 108962077

Many thanks to Oliver for the quick help in embedding the video.
Thank you, 75RR, for your kind comment. I'm no expert, but I think those are ciliates and they swim rather than walk or run, but perhaps someone more knowledgeable will give a more definitive answer.

Oliver wrote:I'm working on embedding viemo videos.

Many thanks Oliver. Not to hurry. By the way, it is vimeo not viemo

Scuticociliates (probably Cyclidium sp., but could be Uronema[?] or Pleuronema[?]).

Objective: 10x; illumination: DIC. Please click on vimeo to view in larger size, HD:

Welcome, Jan. I remember you and your beautiful images from the old (now no-longer) "Microscope Forum", and I also look forward to seeing your images here.

Amazing images (exceptional in all respects: detail, color, beauty). Welcome, Manfred-- glad that you joined the Forum!

Wow! Excellent, beautiful images (your best so far!) Thanks for sharing them.

Very nice images. Did you compare it with your Zeiss planachromat? If you want to do so, I think it would be better to do so visually using brightfield with the condenser aperture adjusted for each objective, using both a low-contrast object and one with fine detail. I may be wrong, but I think it m...

I believe the yellowish ring bordering the field of view establishes that?

Yes.

If in good condition, the 25x fluorite objective should be superb (watch out for delamination, though). I assume you are using Zeiss compensating eyepieces (as I understand it, this is especially important when using fluorite and apochromat objectives).

Thank you, 75RR, for these images. The first one is new to me, and very beautiful.

Thank you thank you, Oliver, for all your hard work on the behalf of us, users, to continually improve the forum! This is wonderful.