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Thanks, everyone! I appreciate the helpful replies. It sounds like I'm missing a part somewhere. I'm also going to look into the cell phone mount and possibly one for my DSLR as well. I don't know if your missing a part or not, just sounds like you might be. Really just depends on your set-up, I ha...

A photo would be helpful maybe of your set-up. It sounds as though you may be missing a small eyepiece tube/adapter for the camera port if you can see the threaded part exposed. That's a C mount size fitting for screwing a camera directly to the camera port. Normally there's a small tube threaded on...

I don't know if it's exactly the same as on the Swift 380T but here's how I adjusted mine after a strip down. Push both sides/eyepieces as low as the go which is the same as as close together as they can be. Now look from above and you will see a retaining screw (slotted) and 2 tension set screws (s...

PeteM and Wolf, thanks for your input. It’s so hard to choose. I have decided I want to buy new, I’m weird that way! Wolf, nice image and nice job tracking. Was that a Euplotes? I'm still new to all these tiny critters but I think that is a rotifer in the dark field trial video I linked, thank you ...

It has a removable condenser, it's just mounted in a different way and actually attached to the bottom of the stage. There is no standard dark field condenser upgrade option offered by Swift, but that doesn't mean it can't be done. You can certainly mount a dark field condenser to the swift 380, jus...

Just a thought but wouldn't bluetooth data transfer rates be way too slow for video?

What is the camera you are using and how are you connecting it? Any reduction optics? Have you adjusted the photo-tube till parfocal with the eyepieces, little bit more info will help others.

All my cheaper cover slips (slides as well) say they are clean but were in fact grubby with pollutants and smears. I just use small amount liquid soap/detergent and warm tap water in a steel bowl and wash them all by hand, I then rinse twice in bowls of clean distilled water (very hard water here). ...

Omax is another of the bunch of companies in China producing microscopes, pretty sure you will find Omax will have DIN plan level objectives that will fit this scope, I have seen black DIN Semi Plan 160/0.17 objectives under the Omax branding. (look exactly like the standard acro objectives on the S...

That's good to hear. However a look at Aliexpress reveals a bunch of objectives of varying sizes, many of which seem like they may work just based on the similarity of the numbers written on them but which don't list DIN as a metric. If you could perhaps provide a link to what you got I could work ...

I have the Swift SW380T. I am enjoying it very much. The optical quality is very good. I did replace the 100X oil objective with a dry 60X. The 100X works as it should, but it doesn’t fit my purposes well. Where did you get the 60x eyepiece? I would like to do the same! Thanks so much! It's easy to...

Many thanks Oliver,
as mentioned above this forum is a great resource and not only that an enjoyable place to learn and spend time for it's members.

The anticipation is killing me, haha! lol, your not alone. ;) Me too! My 3D printing is always a bit hit and miss. Mostly miss, ha ha Good on you Louise for giving it a go, I'm certain a lot of us Swift owners will be interested in the outcome. My son has started doing a lot of 3D printing (new toy...

A few minutes cut from a period of time of a rotifers wanderings in dark field and polarized

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGrcNWn1Va0

Great capture, really interesting to see.

Nemotode (hope I'm right lol) from dried moss sample in bright field, first play with oblique and then finishing in dark field. Only a round worm but I'm excited as it's my first and.... I worked out how to add some music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADPe7k14XCQ

Thank you for the comments, I was very excited as I'd been trying everywhere to find one of them lol. Driven all over, hiking and walking looking high and low and guess where I found them....... in my backyard

Wonderful video, I watched this the other day and again today while showing my wife. I really like the effect also, amazing creatures.

Hi all, Well finally I found a tardigrade, took almost 36 hours to revive it from the moss sample I found (I live in a desert lol {South Australia} it's a bit hot 'n dry down here :lol: ) And first thing it has to do is a cardio workout, looks like it's stuck on a treadmill.. Bright field and Polari...

Sadly is was 2 days ago just before we had to leave and I forgot the slide and it dried while out. I still have the pond sample it came out of some maybe I'll find another to watch if I'm lucky. Still so good to know as it makes it easier for me to look up and read about them now, thank you again. S...

That does look like it, I thought it may have been a flat worm of some kind. Thank you for the ID, I can learn a bit about them now.

I think this is some kind of flat worm, an positive ID would be wonderful if anyone knows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMza2BUOR7s

What about the optics in the binocular head itself ? Maybe it's there if you can clearly see it, I know I had a finger print in that spot on my 380T.

The microtome: Cheap as it is one would expect chewing gum automat toy qualtity. But no, for the money it is actually very good. Typically products are let down by single drawbacks, especially cheap products. The hand microtome really is not great, but it doesn't have any really weak points and is ...

On my wish list next. A 3d printer. Although the missus wouldn't accept the fact I need one. bah. They can be quite handy, it's one of those tools where I thought I would use for for miscellaneous tasks here and there but instead it revolutionized how I do many small repair projects and has greatly...

Another welcome to the forum Darren from Down-Under

It's a very informative forum with some very knowledgeable and helpful members across many aspects of microscopy, I'm new myself but am already enjoying what the forum has to offer. A Great place to read, relax, share and learn.

Hi Darren, Sorry but I didn't notice until you mentioned it but I had not shared a link to the actual eBay CPL filters I grabbed, so here is it for those interested. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/25mm-27mm-28mm-30mm-30-5mm-34mm-35-5mm-39mm-Camera-Polarizer-CPL-lens-filter/254209026305?ssPageName=STRK%...

Still new and learning, have no idea what a lot of I'm seeing is but it sure is fun and very interesting. I need practice following/tracking subject matter and maintaining focus sorry, any critter ID would be great (think it's a rotifer of some kind but have no idea rerally lol. Dark-field https://w...

Well didn't get very long but here's two quick short videos, first dark-field using patch stops and then one using the polarizing filters. Really gives an interesting and different effect though focus definition and contrast isn't as good/strong. Also found it fairly challenging to track/follow subj...

Simply amazing, thank you.