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Marine Diatom (Live)

#1 Post by 75RR » Sun Aug 26, 2018 7:24 pm

Planapo 63x/1.4, DIC, 130µm, 15 image stack in Photoshop
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#2 Post by Hobbyst46 » Sun Aug 26, 2018 8:22 pm

Classic and superb.

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#3 Post by MicroBob » Sun Aug 26, 2018 9:31 pm

Remarkable image! It even shows some pore detail.
You know how to use this fine objective!

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#4 Post by billbillt » Sun Aug 26, 2018 9:51 pm

I have to agree with the others... One of the best I have ever seen posted...

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#5 Post by rnabholz » Sun Aug 26, 2018 11:35 pm

Beautiful 75

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#6 Post by SunshineLW » Mon Aug 27, 2018 12:32 am

Very pretty specimen and image!

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#7 Post by KurtM » Mon Aug 27, 2018 12:45 am

Yep, and I'm here to say there's nothing easy about using that lens on a living diatom! Oil top & bottom, I suppose? How on earth did you get a healthy Pleurosigma (which is what it looks like to me though there's plenty of room for error) to hold still??
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#8 Post by 75RR » Mon Aug 27, 2018 4:42 am

Many thanks Hobbyst46, MicroBob, billbillt, rnabholz, SunshineLW and KurtM ... very kind.
Oil top & bottom, I suppose? How on earth did you get a healthy Pleurosigma (which is what it looks like to me though there's plenty of room for error) to hold still??
Yes, oil top and bottom. I reuse slides and slips so one more oily surface is hardly a problem.
He may have been partially pinned as I had extracted water (with absorbent paper) earlier trying to pin down a very wiggly nematode.
The smaller diatoms were quite active.
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#9 Post by mrsonchus » Mon Aug 27, 2018 9:05 am

Superb image 75' - you my friend have become a master! As mentioned by others, I've also never seen better.
It really seems to me that you've extracted every tiny piece of performance from your setup - an extremely hard thing to achieve as we all know! A great demonstration of the art I'd say.

This how I personally like to see Diatoms, with their internals as it were, complete; so much structure and information to decode....

Keep 'em coming my friend, a real treat for us all!

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#10 Post by 75RR » Mon Aug 27, 2018 12:00 pm

Many thanks mrsonchus ... very kind, glad you like it.
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#11 Post by vasselle » Mon Aug 27, 2018 3:46 pm

Bonjour
Très belle image
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#12 Post by hkv » Thu Aug 30, 2018 7:11 am

Beautiful!
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#13 Post by Grahame » Thu Aug 30, 2018 7:29 am

And I thought yesterdays 4 were stunners :roll:

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#14 Post by charlie g » Thu Aug 30, 2018 5:50 pm

Thanks for this treat of live marine diatom, 75RR. An oiled 'front and back' slide with your crisp optics is a delight for me to share in...thanks for these marine live forms.

Are you observing fresh marine samples..or a few days old samples? How do you collect your samples...from what 'habitat'..open waters, surf flats, collected matts of washed up vegetation...sand bottom...I'm curious, 75RR. Charlie guevara

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#15 Post by 75RR » Fri Aug 31, 2018 2:52 pm

Many thanks vasselle, hkv, Grahame and charlie g

Are you observing fresh marine samples..or a few days old samples? How do you collect your samples...from what 'habitat'..open waters, surf flats, collected matts of washed up vegetation...sand bottom...I'm curious, 75RR.
Collected these samples in the local Fisherman's Port/Marina. I pulled up one of the many ropes that trail in the water from the pier and plucked some alga off it. They were one day old at the time I took the photographs.
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#16 Post by Aenima » Sat Sep 01, 2018 7:54 pm

that is excellent work - think I might prefer the live diatom shots with the colour present, but they are all interesting subjects to photograph with some amazing images posted here. :)

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#17 Post by GaryB » Sun Sep 02, 2018 12:05 pm

Amazing view, seeing the dots poking through is very cool.

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