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- Wed Nov 11, 2020 12:15 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Strange critter found in peat mining area
- Replies: 1
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Strange critter found in peat mining area
So my local youth club went out to a local moss a few weeks back and my mum was nice enough to bring back a sample of the water lying in one of the old trenches they dug peat out of for fuel hundereds of years ago. I wasn't expecting much life given the acidity of peat but on testing the water got a...
- Sat Oct 24, 2020 6:46 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: First life found under a microscope
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2927
Re: First life found under a microscope
The above are terrible. Don't waste your time! I made up another slide this time from my Blakemere sample (few miles from Colemere). Sample was essentially the plastic outer bag of a sandbag used to shore up a fishing peg I took the sample from. I honestly didn't expect much given the plastic nature...
- Sat Oct 24, 2020 4:41 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: How to troll a rotifer
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1660
Re: How to troll a rotifer
That's brilliant Unbelieveable quality on your videos as well.
- Sat Oct 24, 2020 4:35 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: First life found under a microscope
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2927
First life found under a microscope
So after going out this morning and collecting three samples from diffrent meres (shallow Lakes formed during the last ice age (very british term for them)). Today I took a small sample from colemere and stuck it under the scope and despite thinking there would be no life at all given the heavy rain...
- Fri Oct 23, 2020 5:40 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: First pictures from a newbie
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1324
Re: First pictures from a newbie
Thanks! I love the blue stains as well.
No not yet, I'm going out tomorrow to collect a few samples from my local river at various slow moving spots and also a few stillwater fishing spots I used to visit. So hopefully I'll find lots of life there.
I'll post them up either tomorrow or Sunday!
No not yet, I'm going out tomorrow to collect a few samples from my local river at various slow moving spots and also a few stillwater fishing spots I used to visit. So hopefully I'll find lots of life there.
I'll post them up either tomorrow or Sunday!
- Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:56 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Leukocyte crawling in blood
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8038
Re: Leukocyte crawling in blood
Amazing video!
- Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:55 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: First pictures from a newbie
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1324
First pictures from a newbie
So as promised in my intro... Here are the first photos I have taken with my new scope! First a couple using my iPhone taken just offering it upto the eyepiece: Leaf found in my garden https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/bens.personal.bucket/photos/microscopy/iphoneleaf.jpg And some erm... Mucus and ...
- Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:42 pm
- Forum: Introduce yourself
- Topic: Very interested in the microscopic world and back at college
- Replies: 7
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Re: Very interested in the microscopic world and back at college
Given your interest in photography, you'll likely want something with a trinocular head. As someone who also has an SLR, This is already hurting me. I bought the binocular version of my scope and a 5MP eyepiece camera and while it works.. it's nowhere close to what's achievable with even just an ip...
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:47 pm
- Forum: Introduce yourself
- Topic: Very interested in the microscopic world and back at college
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4340
Re: Very interested in the microscopic world and back at college
Welcome fellow UK'er!
Sounds like we have similar interests!
Sounds like we have similar interests!
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:39 pm
- Forum: Introduce yourself
- Topic: Hello from England
- Replies: 3
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Hello from England
Hello to the Forum from rainy old England! First of all, the last time I even touched a microscope let alone looked in the eyepiece of one was probably 15-16 years ago when I was in school! However the intrigue of being able to see things that you normally can't in the world around you never left me...