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Marine Alga

#1 Post by 75RR » Sun Oct 20, 2019 8:53 pm

Planapo 63x/1.4, DIC, 10µm width, stacked and stitched in Photoshop, Marine sample, Alboran Sea.

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Re: Marine Alga

#2 Post by mrsonchus » Sun Oct 20, 2019 10:18 pm

What an image 75'!

Such detail, this DIC is pretty impressive! Very nicely-done old chap.
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Re: Marine Alga

#3 Post by tgss » Sun Oct 20, 2019 10:31 pm

What mrsonchus said :!: .

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Re: Marine Alga

#4 Post by mrsonchus » Sun Oct 20, 2019 10:35 pm

75', this may be a stupid question, but what is needed for a start with DIC, re my BX40?
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Re: Marine Alga

#5 Post by 75RR » Mon Oct 21, 2019 8:14 am

Thanks mrsonchus and tgss
... but what is needed for a start with DIC, re my BX40?
Here are a couple of articles worth reading.

The first link is shorter and gives a clear explanation of DIC and as a bonus uses an Olympus BX system to explain the components: https://www.microscopyu.com/pdfs/Lassle ... 9-2006.pdf

This one is from Olympus and basically says yes you can and gives you a list of what you need: https://www.olympus-lifescience.com/en/ ... iguration/
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Re: Marine Alga

#6 Post by mintakax » Tue Oct 22, 2019 2:24 pm

Very beautiful Glen. You captured the wonderful colors and textures.

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Re: Marine Alga

#7 Post by Wes » Tue Oct 22, 2019 3:12 pm

Quality shot! Any idea what the pink stuff inside is?
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Re: Marine Alga

#8 Post by 75RR » Tue Oct 22, 2019 3:34 pm

Many thanks mintakax and Wes
Any idea what the pink stuff inside is?
I think it is probably small amounts of the red pigment phycobilin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phycobilin
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