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There we go..... now THAT looks nice!

Cool video.

Does your rig not support darkfield?

Those are crap.

Invest in a good quality blower used by serious photographers, kimwipes, and good quality lens cloths, and a jug of high-purity ethanol. Oh, and foam Q-tips. Zeiss has a good tutorial on keeping "The Clean Microscope" somewhere on line.

Did you make that rubber powered Fokker? As for cleaning your scope, I'd use %96 ethanol and cotton rags on anything not transmitting and reflecting light. Isopropyl alcohol always seems to just smear films around. Also, if you're serious about a total dismantling and thorough cleaning, I'd spray th...

I had them make me a cover for my scope, and one for my flat top. Total cost about US$12. Holy cow, that's a screaming deal. Charlie, you're absolutely right. Someone a while back also mentioned running an air ionizer in a scope room, to knock down airborne particulates, which makes a ton of sense....

You're right. That is an unusual scope. In fact, I wasn't even aware that Zeiss made wall-mounted microscopes.

It's cool that you have such easy access to a lively source of microbiology!

I have never taken apart that unit.....however, see if the lower barrel isn't just a cover and see if it unscrews. It may hide a very small lock screw.

Hey this is good sport! Thanks for the challenge!

This is transmitted darkfield. The checkered scale bar is 10µm X 3µm, calculated as a fraction of the field of view, taken with a Zeiss stage micrometer. The dark line separating the striae looks to be about 200nm-300nm. Within each striae is a honeycomb network of puntae(?), of which there appear t...

I have just just completed the dissasembly of an oil soaked 20x Nikon lens. It may have been used in an inverted scope in its previous life. When I got it, the image it produced was atrocious, yet there didn't seem to be anything obviously wrong with it; complete oil saturation and no bubbles looks ...

It would be interesting to compare our darkfield systems. I've cobbled together a similar system to look at diatoms at high magnification. Using glycerin immersion above and below my slide, at 100x, I can get about 200nm resolution, but only with very specific kinds of diatoms: only the thinnest lay...

Printed photos of diatoms do a poor job of conveying their beauty and complexity, unless you have an SEM . After wrestling with the problem of how best to show off these things, I thought it best to arrange within some sort of organic-looking large format framework: Screenshot 2024-01-16 233913.jpg ...

Wow! Aren't you lucky! I'll assume that the pumps came with it!

I'd have to throw out both the clothes dryer and washing machine if I'd have any hope at running all of that equipment in my basement.

I bet incidentals add up fast; sputtering sources are no joke!

Is that Carl ZEISS EVO LS 10 Lab6 your own or do you have regular access to it?

I've often wondered about a used table-top SEM.... seems that for the cost of a decent modern optical system, you could get lucky with a basic SEM.

Dirty Cover slips are my bane. Preliminary cleaning: Wipe with a kleenex and generously applied methanol or isopropyl alcohol Final wet cleaning: Use a lens cloth and optical-grade lens cleaner Final Air cleaning: Blow off the contact surface with canned air before applying to slide. Lens cloth is f...

That Canon 5D is a pretty good camera and will capture almost anything you throw at it. It's useful to judge your images based on what you plan to do with them. It's hard to take lousy images at low magnification for viewing on your phone. On the other hand, a poster-sized print at 300dpi of somethi...

There's gotta be something to that configuration for Nikon to build their entire super-resolution line around it, in addition to their line-up of conventional inverted scopes . Screenshot 2024-01-06 183033.jpg I've made my own shallow deep-well slides to look at squishy things under my conventional ...

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Furthermore, it is simply impolite to force a user to leave this site via link, with zero clue regarding the content of the link.

To clarify: petrographic microscopes have x-y alignment adjusters only for the objectives, critical for precise concerted alignment of rotating stage, Betrand/Amici lens, and z axis of a crystal, commonly used for mineral ID and and limited fabric orientation. Otherwise, conventional viewing allows ...

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Nick.... Keep your eye out for Online and local goodwill auctions University and college surplus sites cloudy nights website classifieds Craigslist and estate sales I don't have a lot experience with branded starter scopes but I've read of some experiences where cheap units are more frustration than...

Basic dark field is definitely an awesome technique for plankton and diatoms, especially with low RI media like formalin or methanol. I'm holding off on the DIC until I mount legitimate slides. These, by the way, are all stacked images from about 4-8 photos, heavily cleaned up in photoshop, though n...

Funny you should mention... Getting plankton samples across borders is certainly not an issue if you're a research institution and have miles of associated paperwork. I had to improvise: Screenshot 2023-12-17 155923.jpg Each little bottle is a concentrated sample of microscopic stuff from several pl...

Once at sea, I had to bribe a deck hand to get me out on the water in the zodiac while everyone else was under the water. Screenshot 2023-12-17 154304.jpg The trick is playing out the line while keeping tension and making sure the boat travels straight at never more than 1-2 knots. Measuring depth i...

A recent scuba trip to the Red Sea meant a plankton net upgrade, including a quantitative way to measure net depth when towing. First, a proper net requires shaping, ribs for strength, and endless scouring of the internet for images: Screenshot 2023-12-17 152156.jpg Followed by a lot of frustrating ...

nice..... what's the field of view?


....and some freshwater diatoms too.

Me too. I guess it was just temporary.

Well....yeah.

That's from a book.


Mine are all photos.

I've tried ALL formats, just to see....

But I only load .jpegs to this site and even the same images I've loaded to other threads on this site won't upload.