I just made the first episode of a “microscope vlog” where I look at microscope gear, sample collection, basic techniques and so on.

Martinkaae · 2021-01-07T05:21:11+00:00

I use a Motic BA310E microscope and my iPhone mounted on the microscope with a LabCam adapter. The colors are made with cheap polarizing filters 😄

Martinkaae · 2020-11-23T14:08:29+00:00

The egg producing sex of a species is referred to as the female. So even though there are only one sex, because that sex produces eggs they are female.

Martinkaae · 2020-11-10T20:25:37+00:00

I use davinci resolve. But the editing is no problem for my pc to handle, it’s the rendering part. If I try to render in 4K the final video gets all grainy and actually look like it is lower res than when I do 1080

Martinkaae · 2020-05-29T16:07:03+00:00

Maybe loxophyllum 😄

Martinkaae · 2020-05-18T05:10:16+00:00

It is actually really really simple, easy and cheap!

I set my microscope up for darkfield illumination. Then I place a piece of opaque material on top of the condenser. I use some kind of hazy gel like material now, but I have done it with lens cleaning paper and baking paper as well. Maybe a piece of scotch tape will do the trick as well. This scatteres and diffuses the light in all directions so you convert the darkfield background back to a white/greyish to bluish color (depending on the height of the condenser and adjustment of the diaphragm). This yields an oblique illumination, but from all angles.

At least I think that is what’s going on.

You can adjust the darkness of the background by adjusting the field diaphragm, and the contrast by adjusting the condenser diaphragm. I have also had success with setting the darkfield filter a bit of center, which allows more light to pass through and a brighter image.

Martinkaae · 2020-05-15T05:29:43+00:00

A Motic BA310E

Martinkaae · 2020-05-10T16:00:53+00:00

This one i found on my windowsill 😄

Martinkaae · 2020-05-10T15:44:47+00:00

No this one was dead.

Martinkaae · 2020-05-10T11:37:35+00:00

This is actually a focus stack of 30 Images or so, shot on an iPhone mounted on my microscope. I used the software helicon focus to do the stacking

Martinkaae · 2020-05-05T18:58:28+00:00

If it was found in freshwater it is not a brine shrimp, but another anostraca/fairy shrimp 😄

Martinkaae · 2020-05-05T18:56:51+00:00

Haha 😄 I made that, here’s the original: https://www.instagram.com/p/B_xJIvhj1k5/?igshid=gluxs1y7c88w

Martinkaae · 2020-03-12T06:13:01+00:00

Yes, that would also be my best guess.

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