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<sad sigh>. That makes total sense, and yet I must have been doing something because I have thousands of photos of microorganisms from last year using the compound microscope so there was no lens, and I used the EOS Utility/DPP4 to manage the process. I guess I must be remembering using the autofocu...

Hi all, again I come hat in hand hoping for some help :) My setup is the 6D mk2 on a trinocular stereo microscope, so the camera lens is the adapter attaching the camera to the microscope. The camera is attached to a Windows laptop via a data cable and the laptop is running dpp4 with the associated ...

Well, I'll be darned. there is a tiny screw there - a fraction of a fraction of a millimeter inserted. I would never have seen it! I loosened it, and presto! Problem solved Thanks very much!

K.

I recently purchased an Amscope trinocular stereomicroscope SM-2T-6WB-V331. I already have a compound microscope from Amscope, and found its assembly relatively straightforward. I'm sure I'm overlooking something obvious, but I can't seem to get the eyepieces to slide into their tubes. It doesn't he...

Hi Kit, the idea is to repeatedly freeze and thaw the soaked block of diatom material. This can be done with a normal household freezer, but it is time consuming. With a peltier element and a time switch the process can be rund automatically and in faster cycle times. The peltier element is a semi ...

@microbob Your note about the peltier element - I wasn't familiar with these, so looked them up. I am not sure how I would apply the examples I found to this application. Could you explain a little more how to set it up? Thanks!

Thanks much - I experiment with those suggestions.

Kit.

:D I've used water in flat well slides and it works reasonably well but wasn't trying to make a permanent slide. I'll try both air and water. I don't mind if things shift around - they'll be for my use, not students or anyone else so the risk of damage is slight. My first challenge is working out ho...

Hi Mike, Thanks so much for the offer! I do only need a little bit, but I am unfortunately in the US, which appears to be a desert of mountant... I have to believe that there are amateur diatom enthusiasts here who don't have access to a lab. I wonder what they all do... In any case, your offer is a...

Great thread! Very inspiring to this one who is new to diatom arts :) Does anyone happen to know if there is a supplier anywhere for Pleurax? I hope to try hobby46's recipe for homemade mountant, but as a backup I thought I might try Pleurax as well, as it seems to be the least toxic to use of the c...