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Brilliant colors. Does it look like that in the eye piece?

Very nice. Where did you find this handsome fellow?

I noticed those two actions lead to higher contrast and depth of field. But why does lowering the condenser have that effect? Does it limit the light cone?

Nice image. Talking about tiny things, has anyone observed a mega virus under the microscope?

Nice video. I always thought those flagellate are hilarious, with their "tongue" sticking out

I wanted to test 3 objectives I have, all 40x. Achro vs Fluor vs PlanAPO. I only do brightfield + darkfield + polarization.

I think I am gonna try insect wings and DVDs. Thanks for all your comments!

Actually I just needed some basic annotation tools and curiously, neither openshot or Kdenlive have something like that. I would think many people want to insert some comments on their videos. Davinci has some tools for that (but it is a bit convoluted)

Diatoms? Where can I find some?
CD/DVD tracks?

Thanks

In weird dark polarized lighting that is strangely soothing.

Thanks!

I ended up installing Davinci Resolve that manages it quite easily. Kdenlive may get there some day too as they are working on a new text engine. Video editing software don't have powerpoint style capabilities, which is a shame.

Guys, how do you annotate your videos? Does your video editing software allow you to do that easily? Like placing arrows and text by drag and drop, Powerpoint style? It is not Kdenlive's forte.

Mind blown!!!

So these are parasites basically?

http://media2.giphy.com/media/vp122eOzO0Hxm/200.gif Thanks for your answer. I was trying to make a time lapse of the dead cyclopedia because my suspicion was that it would "turn off" after a while due to death and decomposition. But it take longer than a couple of hours and my microscope was gettin...

I was wondering, how does closing down the condenser aperture impact the rings?

What are those straight structures we see in polarized light? Are those muscle groups?

I was playing with polarized light today. Very interesting effects!

Welcome!

What are those bright cercles in your tube? That can't be good...

Well, I think it is the tube then. Do you have the artifacts when using the eyepiece vs camera?

Try turn things to see where the artifact comes from. Not sure you have access to the below on your microscope

1/ Eye piece
2/ Objective Lens
3/ Condenser lens
4/ Collector lens
5/ Light source

Interesting. The 3D effect I see seems to be independent of any oblique illumination

You may be looking at the lamp filament. Can you post a picture of you setup, your condenser placement and your illumination?

I wonder how silica is digested...

Well, I had a bottle of them, and saw that video of MicrobeHunter playing with it. I just dissolved some crystals on a slide with a drop of dish soap (may not be necessary if you use alcohol). Adding alcohol will accelerate the process.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs ... .200500283

To be honest I dont bother with binocular microscopes but when I do I find that using your trick of altering the interoccular distance does give a nice and sometimes very useful stereoscopic view. Nice :) Do you notice a big improvement of 1/ smaller inter-ocular distance with the stereo caps over ...

Thanks all :) Wow, 3 days - that took a long time to crystallize, some substances are much faster, like tartaric acid (depends on the circumstances). Indeed it took a while. I am still not a master of the process and don't have all the info re kinetics of the crystallization. I think temperature and...

@Chas

How does those stereo caps change your experience vs no caps? What eye pieces do you use them on?

Luis Carlos wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 13, 2021 10:32 am

Smollerthings: Normally I just correct contrast and exposure, the rest is done by the DIC system.

Waouh, those colors do really pop!

patta wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 13, 2021 2:04 am

Nice! I've tried to make those caps to stop down the eyepiece aperture last week, but it didn't work well;
needs to be precise;

Are you using PETG? Those tend to string and it is hard to be precise with it. You need to sand it down after.

Do you perceive the effect without the stop?

Awesome video and those colors! Are they out of the box or is there some magical post treatment?