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Hello to all friends of the forum, I would like to buy a coaxial graduated mechanichal stage for my Leitz SM (the old one, of the black enamel series). The stage must be in excellent mechanical and cosmetic condition. For convenience, I am attaching a photo of the two coaxial stage models taken from...

Ha ha ha ... so this diatom doesn't need the microscope scale bar on the picture

Actually, this is a brightfield photo, but with DIY oblique lighting ...

It is true! It looks like a row of buttons! In my specimen the pyrenoids are totally misaligned and randomized ...

Hello everyone,
this morning, observing a sample of water from a flooded field, I met and photographed a pretty diatom.
Could someone help me identify it?
Location: Italy
Thank you.
Toni

Hello everyone,
this morning with my glorious Leitz SM (and its 60's Apo objectives) I photographed a desmid that looks like the Closterium moniliferum. Could it be him?
Location of discovery: flooded field - Italy
Cheers
Toni

Leitz SM trinocular microscope (excellent black enamel series) with trinocular head, Periplan eyepieces, 4 parfocal objectives PL/NPL series, Berek condenser and original illuminator. DETAILED DESCRIPTION: - Trinocular head 1,25x with 2 Leitz Periplan GF 12.5x M eyepieces - Leitz objective NPL 6.3 /...

Hi everyone, I'd like to sell a Microscope Objective Zeiss Ph2 Neofluar 16x 0.40 160/- Phase contrast. It appears in very good cosmetic conditions. It also seems in very good optical conditions. Glass appears in very good order, without visible marks, scratches, blemishes, delamination or fungus. Un...

Hi everyone, I'd like to sell a Microscope Objective Leitz C Pl Oel 160x 1.40 ∞/0 Infinity corrected Oil immersion. It appears in very good cosmetic conditions. It also seems in very good optical conditions. Glass appears in very good order, without visible marks, scratches, blemishes, delamination ...

Very well done and very "didactic" ...

Hello to all forum friends, today is the turn of a Loxodes (at least I think it is him ...) remained unusually stationary for a few seconds, allowing 5 shots for a decent focus stacking...probably because it's "full belly"! Brightfield & 3D lighting Leitz SM + Leitz Apo 25/0.65 170/0.17 Panasonic G7...

Common, but always very fascinating ... especially when they are photographed so well! Thanks.

Well ... I'm not an expert but, waiting for someone more competent, I have my say: maybe it could be a Springtails (Collembola)...

Hi everyone,
just photographed in a sample of water from a pond ... it changed its shape very frequently and very intensely ... in this image it has the shape of a balloon!

Thanks for your generous compliments, Plasmid and thanks to you too 75RR for your helpful comment. In fact, I also think that a "conservative" post-production that provides more easily identifiable information, without "lying" about the actual structure of the subject, is scientifically quite accept...

Hi everyone, once again, I returned to the "Chydorus theme" ... this time, I have photographed a female with two large eggs. The first photo is the "original", with a mixed lighting of BF and 3D ... the second photo is a slightly "Photoshopped" version that simulates the appearance of the dark field...

Thanks Bruce...as usual, you are simply unarrivable !

Really amazing!

Thank you very much...it looks very similar...
Waiting for confirmation!
T

Hi everyone,
today I'm sharing a photo of an organism found in a water sample from a pond.
Could someone help me to identify it? It looks similar to a Heliozoan but I'm not sure...

Thanks Luis and Doc,
yes, the old Leitz Apo series can still have its say!
T

Hi everyone,
Finally, yesterday I was able to find (and to take some picture and some video) a couple of tardigrades on some lichens.
This is my first attempt, but I'm planning to return to this topic.
Ciao
Toni

https://youtu.be/1QPycLZM4_U

Ok...sorry...your link works! I told you I'm always distracted

Hi Michael ... now you have intrigued me: the link to the post doesn't work and I can't stand it anymore
Parfocal is very useful for absent-minded people like me ... I'm sure I'd always end up banging the non-parfocal objective on the slide

Thanks MIchael, I hadn't noticed this. But I still don't understand one thing: the great working distance of this objective makes it incompatible with the stand of my Leitz SM, but looking at the brochure I see that the Leitz SM Pol has the same stand as my Leitz SM "Medical" and indeed the thicknes...

Many thanks, Apochronaut ... your post is very interesting. So, my objective is almost certainly an ELWD lens for petrographic use and the notation "1" indicates low magnification. The image quality is very good indeed, but on my stand it is unusable. I'll try to swap with some other Leitz objective...

The brochure from which the list comes is dedicated to Leitz polarizing microscopes in general ... SM Pol, Ortholux Pol but also the rare Panphot Pol. The SM microscope I know for sure has a tube length of 170mm ... Unfortunately the pdf file is quite large, even compressed. If you PM me your email,...

...but mine has engraved "170"...I suppose It's for tube lenght...

You know, I never thought of that, but it does make sense.
We stay here, and we wait for other contributes...
Toni

Hi everyone, a few days ago I bought for peanuts an objective Leitz Wetzlar marked "4.3: 1 0.15 170 1b" to pair it with my old Leitz SM microscope, a black enamel "170-tube lenght" already equipped with the complete Apo series ( 12.5x, 25x, 40x ... all 37mm parfocalized). When it arrived home, I imm...