Effect of colored filters

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Effect of colored filters

#1 Post by DonSchaeffer » Sat May 16, 2020 7:56 pm

My microscope came with blue and green filters. I wanted to see if these filters have any effect on viewing carrot cells. I also used my photo-processing software to get what I thought was the best image with and without the filers. The blue filter does appear to make the image shaper (Unfortunately for science the two filters were compared at different locations on the carrot).

Blue filter, green filter, no filter. Then with photo processing.
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