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Microworld Magic

Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2016 10:45 pm
by billporter1456
I haven’t been doing much with the microscopy hobby lately, but I got a sample of pond water today and saw something that lent itself to creating a little story. My trained rotifers and ciliates created an amazingly symmetrical and balanced work of art.


Re: Microworld Magic

Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2016 11:17 pm
by gekko
A typical Bill Porter video: entertaining and holds one's interest until the end. The simplicity belies the extraordinary patience that this must have entailed. Beautiful, Bill!

Re: Microworld Magic

Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2016 11:22 pm
by billporter1456
gekko wrote:A typical Bill Porter video: entertaining and holds one's interest until the end. The simplicity belies the extraordinary patience that this must have entailed. Beautiful, Bill!
Thank you, gekko! On this one, capturing the action required very little patience as it was less than 5 minutes from when I spotted the cells until they assumed the form shown at the end of the video. The only time consuming part was creating the captions and synchronizing them with the images. As you know, I like to find a way to create a bit of a story when possible.

Re: Microworld Magic

Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2016 11:23 pm
by gekko
billporter1456 wrote:
gekko wrote:A typical Bill Porter video: entertaining and holds one's interest until the end. The simplicity belies the extraordinary patience that this must have entailed. Beautiful, Bill!
Thank you, gekko! On this one, capturing the action required very little patience as it was less than 5 minutes from when I spotted the cells until they assumed the form shown at the end of the video. The only time consuming part was creating the captions and synchronizing them with the images. As you know, I like to find a way to create a bit of a story when possible.
So then they really did listen to you :) .

Re: Microworld Magic

Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2016 11:25 pm
by billporter1456
gekko wrote:So then they really did listen to you :) .
That's the "magic" part!

Re: Microworld Magic

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 12:14 am
by Tom Jones
:lol: :lol: :lol:

You didn't even need the whip!

Tom

Re: Microworld Magic

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 12:40 am
by billbillt
Another wonderful and entertaining video from the master!!... thanks for sharing!...

BillT

Re: Microworld Magic

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 1:11 am
by zzffnn
Mr. Porter is indeed the magical protist wizard :mrgreen:

Re: Microworld Magic

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 4:43 am
by kit1980
This is great!

Re: Microworld Magic

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 7:17 am
by Johann
Lol. Classic :)

Re: Microworld Magic

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 5:07 pm
by billporter1456
Thanks to all who watched and commented! While it's kind of fun to make the videos, it's nice when someone actually watching them. Sorry that I haven't been a more active participant on this forum lately. I noticed some great photos and videos have been posted over the past few weeks.

Re: Microworld Magic

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 7:43 pm
by 75RR
A very enjoyable and nicely shot video - thanks

Re: Microworld Magic

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 8:58 pm
by billporter1456
75RR wrote:A very enjoyable and nicely shot video - thanks
I'm glad you liked it, 75RR. I know it's not everyone's "cup of tea."

Re: Microworld Magic

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2016 4:49 pm
by Radazz
This is truly delightful!

Re: Microworld Magic

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2016 7:43 pm
by billporter1456
Radazz wrote:This is truly delightful!
Thanks, Radazz! BTW, I envy you that Wild M20. :mrgreen:

Re: Microworld Magic

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2016 10:17 pm
by Radazz
My pride and joy.
My brother worked at the local medical school hospital for 30 years, and he rescued several microscopes on the way to the dumpster. This is what the school did with equipment over 20 years old.
Got some nice scopes to clean up and sell, and I immediately appropriated a Zeiss Standard with a trinocular head and phase contrast condenser, and among them was this old black scope with a weird aluminum rig screwed to the stage that looked like they shoved large slides into it one after the other.
I was so intrigued by this setup I didn't realize what I was holding. Then I looked under the front edge and saw the Wild Heerbrugg Switzerland logo.
After running in circles making monkey noises (on the inside), I saw that I had about 80% of an m20 and I knew I had to restore it no matter what it took. It even had a pair of Unitron WFH10XR brass occulars.
I immediately hit eBay for the missing parts and within a month had it up and running.

Re: Microworld Magic

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2016 10:20 pm
by Radazz
Sorry had to post, iPad having a sh*t fit.

Anyway, I thought the Zeiss was the finest microscope I would ever lay my hands on, but I was wrong.
I'm in heaven.

Jim

Re: Microworld Magic

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2016 10:26 pm
by JimT
Been away for a bit but what a great treat to return to. So, you are the rotifer whisper.

Re: Microworld Magic

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 8:07 pm
by billporter1456
JimT wrote:Been away for a bit but what a great treat to return to. So, you are the rotifer whisper.
Thanks, JimT! Yep, I've learned their secret language. :lol: