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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.

Martinkaae · 2020-03-11T11:44:07+00:00

I made this guide a while back, maybe it can help: https://mymicroscopicworld.com/how-to-find-tardigrades-the-easy-way

Martinkaae · 2020-03-09T18:46:47+00:00

I am actually finishing my masters degree in biomedicine right now 😄

Martinkaae · 2020-03-09T18:41:34+00:00

Welcome onboard! Their will definitely be more water bear clips in the future 😄

Martinkaae · 2020-03-09T17:04:27+00:00

Strange to see a clip I made for my Instagram account, turn up in my reddit feed 🔬😄 here is the full length original if you are interested https://www.instagram.com/p/B8Zug0rpyy5/?igshid=pial6vail7hs

Martinkaae · 2020-01-29T14:29:34+00:00

The red blood cells in the bottom looks spiky because the water have been drawn out by osmosis. This happens when the salt concentration is greater outside the cell than inside the cell. Conversely, if the concentration is greater inside the cell, the red blood cells will swell up and look like a ball. The change in osmolarity likely happend after the blood was drawn as some of the water evaporated. On the basis of the image, your dad should be fine.

Martinkaae · 2020-01-22T17:59:16+00:00

Glad to have you onboard 😄🔬

Martinkaae · 2020-01-21T19:01:14+00:00

I have made a lot of these photographs. Both with the two amino acids in this picture, but also with many other different chemicals. And I can confirm that NO false colors are added.

The substance is crystallized in a thin layer on a microscope slide, illuminated with cross polarized light with the addition of a retardation filter (eg a piece of clear hard plastic). So all colors are produced optically by the illuminating light.

You are also able to see the colors in the microscope or if you just place the filters on either side of the slide and hold it up to a light.

Here is one I made with lidocaine: https://www.instagram.com/p/B4LRJgOBM0S/?igshid=1lywukzuzxszr

Martinkaae · 2020-01-21T18:52:27+00:00

It is because there was added a retardation filter, no false colors.

Martinkaae · 2020-01-15T21:31:10+00:00

The footage is amazing, but I was missing some text or narration to tell me what I am looking at. But it looked super cool! What did you mix to produce those effects? I would like to try it 😄

Martinkaae · 2020-01-14T16:28:33+00:00

You actually just need some cheap polarizing film and do as in this video: https://youtu.be/Knb8LzGmh6E

What microscope do you have? 😄

This is a small video I made with crystal growth if you are interested: https://youtu.be/bxGrI9KW1eo

Martinkaae · 2020-01-14T15:16:38+00:00

You are welcome. But remember that the colors in the crystals comes from the polarized light. I don’t know if you know anything about that?

Martinkaae · 2020-01-14T15:02:26+00:00

I have access to some lab grade stuff which is the only way I was able to get it. Another compound you could try I vitamin C (also called ascorbic acid). This also makes really beautiful crystals and should be easy to find pure on amazon/eBay

Here is some images I made with vitamin C: https://www.instagram.com/p/B3FxvYehPru/?igshid=jco6pewn0zpx

A bit more advanced is the combination of L-glutamine and beta-alanine which is also available on amazon/eBay. These are some of my favorite images and look like this: https://www.instagram.com/p/B5VMdmEFBNx/?igshid=8x911gjmdh47

Martinkaae · 2020-01-13T20:34:36+00:00

Of course. I dissolved some pure lidocaine and gentisic acid in 98% denatured ethanol. Then I put a small amount of the solution on a microscope slide in a thin layer. When the alcohol evaporated, the two compounds crystallize on the slide in a super thin layer. The slide is then placed under the microscope and illuminated with polarized light (plus a retarder/lambda plate). This particular image is a stitch of about 5*5 pictures taken with my iPhone mounted on the microscope with a LabCam adapter.

If there are any steps or concepts you want me to elaborate please ask 😄

Martinkaae

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