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Tungsten filament. Focus stacking 260 images, infinity 10х plan.


Tungsten filament by Timur khaz, on Flickr

an unstable table and a large drop of water without a cover glass I caught it in the pond)
I'll put the microscope on a more stable surface:)

4x plan, darkfield and "oblique illumination"

2x objective, stack 100-150 images, limestone
IMG_20200602_002519_919 by Timur khaz, on Flickr
IMG_20200602_002519_917 by Timur khaz, on Flickr

20x, "oblique illumination" made of plastic circle
1590702391 by Timur khaz, on Flickr

thank you:)

I just didn't touch them. A piece of plastic bag works as a diffuser

deBult wrote: ↑

Thu May 28, 2020 1:55 am

Nice, how did you manage to NOT damage all the fine “hairs”?

1590603483 by Timur khaz, on Flickr

Manual, it takes a long time and is very boring:-(

geo_man wrote: ↑

Thu May 21, 2020 6:35 pm

Very nice! How do you take so many pictures and increment the focus? Is it automated or manual? Thank you.

I don't know, sorry Mold on bread

just a simple Soviet microscope with illumination I used Helicon Focus program

Mold, focus stack, 50 and 650 pictures
1590013088-02 by Timur khaz, on Flickr
1590007833 by Timur khaz, on Flickr

Spirogyra conjugation, 20х, focus stacking of 100 images.
oblique illumination, or what is the name of this method?
Sorry for my English

150x
Moment in 1:50

Biolam d11, 60x apo
Dark-field by Timur khaz, on Flickr
Dark-field by Timur khaz, on Flickr

These are nice movies ! the first issues to improve, I would say, are contrast and illumination; did you set Kohler illumination ? if not, I would start with that. Then, if contrast is still low even after closing the condenser iris appropriately, I would consider phase contrast. For nearly transpa...

Hello! Today I was lucky to see how the amoeba eats ciliate.
40x objective. I need plan apo, maybe I will steal some soon

It's my first amoeba, I've never seen such creatures before

Amoeba, 60x objective.
amoeba by Timur khaz, on Flickr

Thank you all

Always liked the look of the Biolam, and indeed Lomo microscopes in general. Yours looks to be in pristine condition. I take it you are using a mirror for illumination? What lamp are you using? Are you familiar with this page in Micscape: http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www...

Hi, my name is Timur. Im from St. Petersburg, Russia. Due to the bad climate, I switched from astronomy to microscopy:) I bought my first microscope few months ago :) Its older than me, I think it was made in USSR in 1980 or earlier :D But it has never been used (it was stored for decades in a wareh...

Closterium, multi-focus of few images. 40x objective, canon 550d
Closterium by Timur khaz, on Flickr

what species of ciliates are this?
р by Timur khaz, on Flickr
MVI_5032 by Timur khaz, on Flickr

Bruce Taylor wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 23, 2019 11:45 am

Yes, they're pretty cute. Yours seems to be quite a big one. Is this a marine sample, or freshwater?

Pond in Saint Petersburg, Russia

Bruce Taylor wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 23, 2019 12:04 am

Aspidisca, a euplotid ciliate.

Funny creature:D thank you!

MVI_4983 by Timur khaz, on FlickrWhat's

First one is a rotifer (I'll leave it to someone else to figure out what kind!) :D Second and third are Stentors. The third one has symbiotic algae, no cortical pigment granules and moniliform macronucleus, so is probably S. polymorphus. The second one doesn't unabmbiguously show the macronucleus, ...

Yesterday I got some water from a pond. Are these stentors? https://live.staticflickr.com/31337/48934756863_9383dfec61_w.jpg нн by Timur khaz , on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/31337/48935500282_e095297bc5_w.jpg MVI_4969 by Timur khaz , on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/31337/4893479141...

75RR wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 20, 2019 4:44 am

Looks like an open bryozoan statoblast with perhaps something (could be rotifer) within the cavity ...

thanks for explaining