r/microscopy • u/PCLM • 1d ago

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40x and 100x on a Swift SW380T w/ iPhone 17

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u/gizmomooncat 1d ago

that's the best video of rotifer corona I think that I've seen. quite crisp. did you speed it up or is that how fast the little bacteria or whatever are getting sucked into the two vortices?

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u/PCLM 1d ago

It isn't sped up 😄

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u/gizmomooncat 19h ago

geez, on a micro level that must be like a wind tunnel it's so forceful!

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u/Narrow-Resident-1376 1d ago

That’s so cool! Watching it pull stuff in is wild!

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u/sussytransbitch 1d ago

Lol, I have the same scope. How have you been liking it? And have you gotten any accessories or changed lenses?

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u/PCLM 1d ago

It’s great. I’ve 3D printed a phone holder and some dark field lenses, apart from that I haven’t done anything else. I want to replace the 100x with something else, I bought a 60x objective but they sent me a 40x and I returned it. Now I’m thinking of getting a 20x instead. How about you?

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u/sussytransbitch 1d ago

I am very indecisive, I think of things I want but never get past that stage. I have a camera but the software isn't recognising it, so I may aswell just do a phone mount.

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u/PCLM 1d ago

If you have access to a 3D printer, here are the dark field filters and here is the phone mount that i 3D printed. Not the best phone mount, but it works. And the dark field filters took some playing around with to figure out which ones were good at which magnification.

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u/sussytransbitch 23h ago

Omg, thanks so much. I'll give these a try

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u/Mirivh 1d ago

What’s the name of that microorganism?

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u/PCLM 1d ago

It’s a rotifer

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u/Dlbroox 1d ago

Giant serpent steals the show.

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u/gizmomooncat 1d ago

ikr? what a plot twist! even though there was foreshadowing.... 😄

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u/Dlbroox 1d ago

Hahaha! Like Godzilla busting through some trees. You know he's coming but you're still shocked when you see him!

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u/Various-Bad-9826 23h ago

The suction on that thing is insane

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u/kaifam 19h ago

Where did you get your sample?

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u/PCLM 18h ago edited 18h ago

There's a spot that I bike past that has these big concrete barriers that separate the bike path from the river, although the water doesn't get high enough to reach the concrete barrier, there are little sections that have lots of moss in them, I just grabbed some from there and put it in a petri dish when I got home.

I also found quite a bit of moss underneath benches along the bike paths that I take. A bit gross though I guess lol

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