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Well I have tried numerous methods so far, including with the addition of penetrating oil down in the groove, and this thing just absolutely will not budge. I think I'd need an F1 wheel gun to have a hope. Maybe someone disassembled it before me and covered the threads in loctite. I guess if I ever ...

The colored ring unscrews from the front. I used two small band clamps (with rubber) but leather should work too. That blue paint layer is really thin so make sure you have a good grip before breaking it free. I am not sure what the next step for clearing out the sticky grease would be. Ah excellen...

Hello all, I recently picked up this Zeiss objective on eBay. In classic eBay lens fashion, this one arrived looking like someone had dumped a bucket of lube into it. I had to do a lot of cleaning to get it into good shape and then I found that it was not parfocal with my other lenses - the spring r...

Okay it's just a bee leg, but I think it's neat! Polarized Darkfield with waveplate shenanigans.

One of my discord members got something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Plastic-Mathematics-Drawing-Drafting-Template/dp/B00VWSS5LU and then scratched the outline of the circles in with a pin and cut them out with scissors. I bet a swiveling craft knife would also do the trick. I got one of those ...

Another option is to buy directly from one of the many distributors or factories in China. Yeah I think that's a good option if you're seasoned but a lot of folks that are asking are young and/or inexperienced so they might not be super comfortable with that process. Anyone in the EU wanna start a ...

As I understand it, the general workflow you should follow in Zerene is to generate Dmap and Pmax, use Dmap as your primary image and then retouch blurry spots with the Pmax stack.

More info here: https://zerenesystems.com/cms/stacker/d ... utorial003

BH2 is lookin a little light! Why so much neglect for the best microscope ever made?!

I wonder if you might be able to make my oblique techniques work? I mean one of the nice things about inverted is that it’s very easy to mess around with the light field….

So I don’t live in Europe, but I get a lot of folks from Europe asking me what they should buy. Most people are looking to spend under 300 ($ or € or £) and most people are beginners so I’m hesitant to direct them to the used market. In the US, I always have a good answer. The BoliScope as I’ve come...

Oh this is really cool! Thank you for sharing!

What are your thoughts on the TWX-1? I see those from time to time on eBay.

Antartica wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 25, 2023 7:13 pm

Btw, does anyone know the name of the organism at the end? Really strange and spider like. It creeped me out when I saw it!

Be not afraid!

That is a colony of Bacillaria - a friendly diatom

Nice! I love Loxodes - they have such a cool shape!

Lomonaut wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 24, 2023 7:51 pm

Brilliant footage!

Thanks! Here's a snippet of some more footage I got. Planning to make a full 4K video at some point just need to find the time: https://www.reddit.com/r/microscopy/com ... _on_video/

Insane find tonight live streaming some samples from California's Central Valley.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1879402539

Got a lot more footage - proper video to follow. Also have the slide saved - don't know if it will last to tomorrow but I might try to find it again on my Youtube Live stream

woyjwjl wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 21, 2023 3:36 am

intermediate tube and slider $1500!

Is that so?

Lol, right? I hope the buyer knows that they need another fairly important piece…

Livestream fever.

But that was too much work for me, so I gave up and worked directly on the stereo images. I do this asynchronously because they are rotated by an angle. You could also work on them in two windows open at the same time, but that didn't work for me. Red/Cyan images I create with Picolay. Okay that so...

I just started using Zerene yesterday.

So for these stacks, are you retouching each of the stereo pair images individually? Or is there a secret to generate a flat, retouched image first and then convert to stereo?

Also, how do you get the red/cyan images?

Nikon 4x Plan Apo stack of a skeeter! I used the lens to direct project onto a Sony A7III sensor and took 48 images manually adjusting my helicoid slightly between each. I used Zerene stack for the first time today - I was a little disappointed that, between Zerene and Helicon, there's no straightfo...

Figure 6-2, Page 78, Plant Microtechnique and Microscopy, Treven E. Ruzin shows how to create glass knives for mictotomes from ordinary microscope slides. I have attempted this with a friend and we kept getting straight breaks rather than a knife edge. Has anyone had scussess from making glass kniv...

Hello. Today I'm going to show you an old video from February this year. Well, now I found the time to post it on the forum. I have quite a lot of material from winter and spring and I will be publishing it successively. So far, all samples have been found in my kennel. Now I present: Catenula Lemn...

ADi wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 15, 2023 7:14 pm

Some scales of the moth:

This one's my favorite so far - lots of delicate layers

I’ve done a little work with a Nikon 4x Plan Apo and a 10x CFN Plan adapted to my full frame camera. They are capable of very sharp imagery but of course the focal depth is razor thin. This can be adjusted by putting your own aperture on the back of the lens with the usual light and sharpness penalt...

Thanks for the heads-up, Pete. I don’t think I have anything capable of using this right now, but maybe I’ll pick one up just for future’s sake. Never a bad idea to find out where these Bay Area surplus folks actually operate from, either - can often get better deals in-person for cash ;) Do you kno...

The diatom second from the left shows the effect most. It might be some sort of psychophysical effect arising from the adjacent, saturated colors. In any event, it's not a big deal. Clearly not a flaw in your overall system because your video imagery is great. Cheers, David It’s funny you mention t...

Good form factor but if that isn't essential an industrial zoom lens like an optem or navitar zoom 6000 can often be had cheap and paired with a c mount camera and they have reasonably good optics. That’s a good call - I’ve been meaning to set up something like this to capture full, high-res images...

So I watch eBay a lot and one thing I've always noticed is that these Dino-lite USB microscopes go for crazy amounts of money! Meanwhile, similar looking Alibaba-esque scopes can be had for well under 50 USD. Are Dino-lites just incredible optical devices or is something weird going on with the mark...

Great find with the NFK 1.67 - not common, expensive, and, based on your successes, definitely valuable. I'm with Phill, however: something doesn't look quite right with your diatom images. I also thought it was motion blur at first, but your HiRes images don't support that. Maybe something about t...