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A new finding, a sweet Tardigrade!

Here other two pictures, it seems Oxytricha...what do you think?

Really incredibly beatifull picture!

Thanks for your answer, I took some other picture of other of the same family... I will post later, I hope to discover somthing more!

To find some Protists I created a small pond on my balcony and this is the first finding!

Could it be a Paramecium ?

Planapo20, 200x
Planapo40, 400x

Planapo10, 100X

Planapo10, 100x

Very nice work, are they single shot photos or focus stacks? I am finding offset oblique difficult to focus stack in my hands, thought single frame works great. Circular oblique light is easier for stacking, but contrast is not as enhanced as offset oblique. Of course are focus stack... I use helic...

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Sat Mar 12, 2022 11:55 am

Pre halogen incandescent bulb on low voltage.

It is an haloghen bulb but, if i understand right, the light it is not trimmered, it is at the maximum because the camera has an automatic compensation that increase automaticly the light.
So it is no possible to use a soft light...

Thank you very much, illumination set up it is describe here: https://www.microbehunter.com/microscopy-forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=15130 In this case I use the condenser with a low value of deflection, and the picture are a little flat... If you vary the deflection, the tridimensional effect it become...

Some pictures of Radiolaria take with planapo20, 200x

Yes, in Italian we use to call this technic "Luce radente" and condenser is like this: s-l500.jpg s-l500 (2).jpg s-l500 (1).jpg As I sad it is a very poor system but I found that it is possible to have interesting result, I try the same with Protist and it is great! Another picture take with planapo...

Many thanks, my set up it is very easy, I use an old Zeiss laboval 4 with a condenser for oblique light and planapo zeiss.
I consider oblique light a poor DIC but whith a nice tridimensional effect.

Here another example!

Great image and subject!

Compliments!

Two Diatoms at 400X

Hello, my name is Davide, I come from Italy, first of all, I do no speak and write well in English, so please sorry for my poor language! I work in micro mechanical in Horology, so I use microscope for work and photograpy is normal for me, but I like the photomicrograpy an so I use a biological micr...