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This is such common stuff where I'm at (pssst, yeah you too Bill) that I'd even call it ubiquitous. But I've always known it simply as cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae. Thank you Seb for giving it a more specific name that I never knew about, as I have actually been studying this very thing a lot ...

Well ... could maybe possibly be helpful if ya might say what brand nail polish y'all are talking about...

I'm a Sally Hansen's Hard-As-Nails man myself. (As most fly tiers who use clear nail polish for head cement are.) Haven't really tried it for slide making (yet).

That iris looks like it wants to be an adjustable focuser baffle on an open tube Dobby when it grows up.

Is the Nikon e600 frame at all comparable to the American Optical model 10? It's a very interesting question from my standpoint since I own and have direct experience with both stands. They're difficult for me to compare since my AO 10 is capable of bright field, dark field, (bright) phase contrast...

Ah -- cool!

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This is great stuff! Your experiments with light manipulation make me want to use flowery phrases like "painting with light" and "artistic" and such. But as regards using microscopes to resolve minute detail, where some might say it matters the most, it's definitely kicking butt in that department a...

I appreciate the BMW vision of Apochronaut, but, since this is a secondary hobby for me, I would like to keep the vision more in the line of Chevolet or Toyota and under $400. No disrespect intended, but I got quite a laugh out of "since this is a secondary hobby for me". Only a secondary hobby? Wh...

How wonderfully nice and interesting to see this species in live form for a change! (I have been studying gyrosigma and pleurosigma frustules pretty intently for the past few days while putting my new microscope through its paces.)

Always so nice (read: instructive) to get views of all sides! You say you added a phase condenser, but what about phase objectives? First time I've ever seen, or noticed, a side-mounted lamp - interesting. It's neat to see the "different" style trinoc head. Still digging those epi objectives, would ...

VERY interesting! I can't recall ever seeing this before, is it common for amoeba and such critters to construct tests of diatoms? Wonder if they use living diatoms or expended frustules? Dang, I'm not sure where to even begin looking...!

Heh, that was actually from the AO 120. It still loves wee things, and wee things still love it.

If anything ever happens to that phone, Rod is just gonna shrivel up and blow away...

I just loves microscopy!

Dam showoff. You get the Ubergeek Award for that. >>>

Dude, you crack me up! I have that exact same Singer machine, lol! It's a real sweet heart isn't it? Mine was just given to me a few years ago and it runs like a Swiss watch. A couple Youtube videos taught me enough to successfully make a whole bunch of scope covers (out of retired bed sheets) plus ...

I definitely agree, CE. I use the free Picasa 3 program as the quickest/easiest way to resize images, using the export function.

gekko wrote:I am constantly amazed at how a lump of protoplasm can build its house with such excellent craftsmanship.

I like the way you think.

Ah, and things are looking lively on the hurricane deck - just in time for Mardi Gras. I continue to be knocked out by the quality of your lighting, and ability to cover the huge dynamic range with your phone camera so broadly. Very nice!

Nothing I've overly proud of, this is a quickie taken with the MU300 stuffed into one of the eyepiece tubes as I continue to await my T2 adapter for the Canon T3i. But I wanted to see how well the view might come out on film, so to speak. I'm absolutely knocked out by how much detail DIC reveals in ...

JimT wrote:Thanks all. Is anyone else experiencing problems with Photobucket today?

Yeah ... but why should today be any different than any other day? Sorry, I feel your pain. I really like Photobucket, but it sure seems to go on the fritz a lot.

75RR, I hear what you're saying, and eagerly anticipated the round stage for precisely the reasons you give. By no means do I wish to lose the rotating stage, just thinking about options. And I shouldn't even be doing that much - after all, I've only had the scope one day, lol. Mostly I'm just overf...

I just saw this post ... omg...

Yep, already been thinking about a more typical style stage with coaxial controls on a drop down wand. Feel kinda silly after making so much noise about wanting a rotating stage! Thanks, Charles - I always appreciate your generous sharing of knowledge and experience!

The experts believe the meteor was traveling at about 9 miles second when it entered the atmosphere... That's the sort of thing that just fascinates me to no end -- saying "9 miles per second" is real easy, but comprehending it is almost impossible. At that kind of speed, hitting Earth's atmosphere...

Fan & Charles, thanks - that got me fixed up perfectly. I have lots of filters laying around, but didn't need to hunt because good old Paul provided quite a stash of various filters with the Zeiss. I dialed back the voltage as suggested, plopped a light blue filter over the illuminator field lens, a...

Rod, I keep my wood carving knives razor sharp by stropping. Any old leather will do, although I found a proper strop in a junk shop, and use mirror polishing rouge left over from an old telescope making project for stropping compound. The same materials can be purchased wherever woodcarving supplie...

Very cool! Where'd you get it? I was taking pix of my rock & mineral collection that includes a couple meteorites before Big Z came to town and distracted me, should post a few.

Charles, you have answered your first two questions yourself, which I doubt will come as a surprise to anyone here - you probably know these old Zeiss stands about as well as anyone out there! :ugeek: The answer to the third question is one for which I would like a second opinion: It's a POL filter ...

Thanks, all! Phil, I got quite a laugh ... "overseen by pharmacists", LOL!!! You probably won't have any trouble believing I came within an ace of buying another 20 series AO/Spencer stereo the other day. Had to log off and go outside, OMG. :roll: And thanks to you and Fan for mentioning the gray he...

I agree, I like the image after tweaking much better. Also nice to see an image of Coleps, I always liked those little things.