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Hi, thanks No coverslip, here is the info on DF: https://www.microbehunter.com/microscopy-forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=16113&p=126726#p126726 Thanks for your reply. Did you use well slides or normal slides? Great that you didn't get any detritus behind the specimens that would have reduced your contra...

Brilliant! May I ask what sort of slides/ cover slips you use to allow the specimens to move around so freely? Also, could you give more details on your improvised darkfield? As much information as possible would be great. I am trying to find out how to achieve the best darkfield I can. Fantastic im...

Any suggestions for isolating aquatic organisms for dark field imaging? When I isolate organisms I usually bring some detritus with it which, due to the high contrast nature of dark field, shows up really badly. This is easy to 'clean' in editing for photos, but is much more difficult or impossible ...

Thanks!

Thanks John, but if anyone deserves credit for the actual fix, it should be David Walker of Micscape Magazine fame, it was he who very kindly suggested that my condenser likely wasn't going up far enough. At least I'm pretty sure that's who it was, he just signed as "David", but I can put 2 and 2 t...