Hello from Baden-Württemberg
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 7:21 pm
Hello everyone,
my name is Ludger and I'm living near Stuttgart in the south west of germany. Microscopy is the latest addition in my zoo of optics related hobbies. I started 25 years ago with a telescope and from astrophotography I broadened my interests to landscape and architectural photography. In the course of the last year I did more macrophotography and to look at the subjects before photographing them, I got a used Leica-Wild M3B stereomicroscope from EBay. After that my interest in conventional compound microscopes rose and I got myself a new Swift 380B in a bargain and now I've also got a used Zeiss Axioskop 50 with phase contrast and fluorescense from EBay again. You see, this quickly escalated.
I really like the Axioskop and I'm happily photographing ascorbic acid crystals at the moment. The beauty and diversity of the crystallization patterns amazes me all the time.
I have not used the phase contrast yet, because the phase annuli are not aligned properly and I have yet to figure out how to align them. Any help here is appreciated.
I did not try the fluorescense also, as the HBO lamp was broken. But a replacement is on its way.
All in all I never thought how interesting microscopy would be, as my only prior experience with microscopy was a toy microscope as a child.
Happy microscoping,
Ludger
my name is Ludger and I'm living near Stuttgart in the south west of germany. Microscopy is the latest addition in my zoo of optics related hobbies. I started 25 years ago with a telescope and from astrophotography I broadened my interests to landscape and architectural photography. In the course of the last year I did more macrophotography and to look at the subjects before photographing them, I got a used Leica-Wild M3B stereomicroscope from EBay. After that my interest in conventional compound microscopes rose and I got myself a new Swift 380B in a bargain and now I've also got a used Zeiss Axioskop 50 with phase contrast and fluorescense from EBay again. You see, this quickly escalated.
I really like the Axioskop and I'm happily photographing ascorbic acid crystals at the moment. The beauty and diversity of the crystallization patterns amazes me all the time.
I have not used the phase contrast yet, because the phase annuli are not aligned properly and I have yet to figure out how to align them. Any help here is appreciated.
I did not try the fluorescense also, as the HBO lamp was broken. But a replacement is on its way.
All in all I never thought how interesting microscopy would be, as my only prior experience with microscopy was a toy microscope as a child.
Happy microscoping,
Ludger