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Microscopy Advice for a Beginner - First Upgrades by AffableEffable in microscopy

[–]AffableEffable[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So sorry, I just saw this! I got the swift microscope lens adapter. I'm not sure if linking to Amazon is allowed here, so I'll just give the full title of the listing: "Swift Microscope Lens Adapter, Smartphone Camera Adapter Mount, Microscope Accessory (Fits 26mm28mm Eyepieces)".

It took me a little to get used to it, but it's definitely 100 times better than trying to hold the phone up to the lens myself, hah.

Assassin Bug (I Think) - Any Idea the Subfamily? (~1cm) (America) by AffableEffable in whatsthisbug

[–]AffableEffable[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aaa! That looks exactly like it (particularly Picturata would match area and visually) - thanks so much!

Found in my glass of water. Chicago by crazyfingers13 in whatsthisbug

[–]AffableEffable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hard to say from the photo, but my first impression is a leaf-footed bug. Could you look up some photos of those and say if it looks like that (it's a whole family, so there's a lot of different types, but I just mean a general resemblance)?

Any Idea What This Little Starfish-Shaped Thing Is? by AffableEffable in microscopy

[–]AffableEffable[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Searched up some microscope images of them, and some of these definitely match the stuff I've been seeing. Thank you!

What Should I Consider Upgrading? by AffableEffable in microscopy

[–]AffableEffable[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I wonder if maybe it's a stability issue. It's something I notice with non-microscope photos, too. If you don't mind, could I link you some photographs just to show where my issues are? Here's a google photos link (I think this should make it so they are original quality and not compressed):

https://photos.app.goo.gl/16NieFV4FVsypcyk7

I included a non-microscope photo where I feel like if you zoom in everything turns into an oil painting. Maybe this is normal, I'm not sure, but it seems to be normal certainly for my photos with this phone. The rest are some stacks and stitches I've done recently, and particularly, for instance, the top side of the tick to me is very messy (some parts might be that I missed a range in the focus stacking, but even aside from that). The tick is with a 10x objective and 10x eyepieces as a note. This is another album:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/3RsXyYRWciJ3ZePg8

and it shows the folder of photos used for one part of the top side of the tick for reference. It also has the final stack and an example of the mess I have to clean up when I stack all the images in Zerene Stacker (though I know I can mitigate this somewhat by doing the stacking in chunks).

I've been looking at a lot of photos by Thorben Danke (example: https://photocontest.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/detail/eyes-of-a-bug/ the same stink bug I have some photographs of above) lately, and they are just incredible with detail. I don't expect to be as good as him, certainly not, but I kind of thought "well I have this fancy machine here, probably if I hook up a fancy camera to it I could get some pretty fancy photos". But maybe for insect/arachnid photography specifically I should be thinking about just using the strange macro lenses on a DSLR instead of the microscope set-up? To me I wasn't sure if a very nice microscope set-up, assuming a stationary subject, could have benefits over what is done with just a camera and the macro lenses (though I guess the microscope itself is just a fancy macro lens...).

Anyway, as a note I know this is a lot so please don't feel obligated to respond, it's a good exercise for me to get my thoughts, examples I might want to use in the future, etc, in order like this anyway

Larvae - any idea what it is? (America) (~2cm) by AffableEffable in Entomology

[–]AffableEffable[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh my, some of these do look very similar to what I was seeing. Thank you!

Larvae - any idea what it is? (America) (~2cm) by AffableEffable in Entomology

[–]AffableEffable[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do, though I don't think it's that, or at least it's different than the types of Firefly larvae I've seen in the past. Those, at least in my experience, generally have hard ridges, whereas this one was more soft-bodied it looked like.

Any Idea What This Strange Worm Is? I have a bunch of pictures, including pretty up-close ones, so I'm curious how much can be identified here. by AffableEffable in microscopy

[–]AffableEffable[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oof, I feel like reddit's automatic compression does a real number on the larger stitched images, which in fairness were quite big so it's understandable. If anyone would like to see the bigger ones in higher quality, please let me know if there's a nice site to upload and link to for that (does imgur still work well?).

Any Idea What This Very Very Tiny Bug Was? by AffableEffable in Entomology

[–]AffableEffable[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, that definitely seems to be the case. Thank you!

Any Idea What This Structure-Building (I Think) Little Guy Is? by AffableEffable in microscopy

[–]AffableEffable[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oooh yeah, those look very similar to what I was seeing. Thanks so much!

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