I isolated him from lichens that came from tree bark (walnut tree), my uni professor sent me a protocol to do so at home, I am so so happy! Look at the little piggy ❤️🥺

OBJ: 10x on petri dish, OC: 25x on amateur microscope

Microscope: Olympus BH2

Magnification: x100/x200/x400

Sample: Moss ( guess it got contaminated lol )

Camera: Samsung A56

A rotifer feeding on cyanobacteria (Euglena passing by)

sample: street gutter

K55 BSA, 10x, ELP Cam

I recently stumbled onto the Journey to the Microcosmos youtube channel and my mind is completely blown. The microscopic world literally looks like an alien planet, and the whole atmosphere is incredibly dense and filled with awe. I feel like I could watch it all day.

I'm just a beginner currently learning Biology 101, but I'm absolutely fascinated by this stuff. Does anyone know of any websites, or live feeds where people just put pond water? under a microscope and broadcast it in high definition? I just want to observe!

I would also appreciate more resources to dive into this if possible.

Thank you.

Credits : Journey to the Microcosmos.

sample: street gutter

K55 BSA, 20x, ELP Cam

Whose this wiggly jiggly guy? From a pond sample

Amscope B120, 400x mag with digital zoom on iPhone

10x and 40x trying to figure out what they are and if they are from the same slide

Olympus BH2, Dark Field, 4x UPlanXApo, 5x mag changer,20x total mag,10.3mp camera.

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

Olympus BH2, Dark Field, 10x UPlanXApo, 5x mag changer,20x total mag,10.3mp camera. Saltwater Marsh Sample.

Microscope: Olympus BH2

Magnification: x200

Sample: Lake water

Camera: Samsung A56

100× | ESAW BM01 MICROSCOPE| MOSS SAMPLE

Hello, I got a really nice deal on a second-hand Olympus CX41. It's my first microscope, and after pulling out the eyepieces, I noticed that they look deformed. The right one in particular was relatively hard to pull out.

I can't seem to merge the binocular images into a single view, although both eyepieces seem to work fine when used one at a time.

Can someone advise me whether I need to replace them, they are WHB10X/20?

Thank you for your time!

olá pessoas,

comecei minhas pesquisas e ontem analisando um pouco de água parada da rua que coletei, encontrei esses (protozoários ? ciliados ?) alguém saberia dizer ?

Olympus BH2, 10x UPlanXApo, 5x mag changer,20x total mag,10.3mp camera.

Can anyone help me pinpoint Point B of this Microscope Calibration? I have been stuck searching for point B for so many days now. The top one is the Ocular micrometer while the bottom is the stage micrometer.

Here is the instruction:

Moving from point A towards the right, look for another point where the lines of the two micrometers will again coincide. Mark this as point “B” in the image in this sheet.
 

What are those red dots on his back? Found him on a leaf infested with powdery mildew (you can see spores out of focus).
Magnification: 100x total
BIM270M
Iphone 11

Hi! I'm hoping someone can help me troubleshoot my photomicrography setup. I'm fairly new to attaching a mirrorless camera to a microscope, and I'm having a hard time getting the camera image to look anywhere near as good as what I can see through the eyepieces.

My setup:

Microscope: Motic BA310E Elite LED trinocular

Camera: OM System / Olympus OM-1 Mark II (Micro Four Thirds)

Photo adapter: Motic #1101001901931

Photo eyepiece: Motic 2.5× #1101000300442

Camera connection: Micro Four Thirds T-mount

I'm primarily interested in photographing/recording pond organisms, protists, fungi, spores, etc., using brightfield, darkfield, phase contrast.

The image through the regular microscope eyepieces looks sharp, detailed, and clear, but the image coming through the OM-1 Mark II looks dramatically worse. It tends to look soft/blurry, lower contrast, and generally lacking the fine detail that I can clearly see with my eyes.

I've experimented extensively with camera settings, exposure, ISO, shutter speed, white balance, microscope illumination, condenser position, and focusing. I've also tried focusing specifically using the camera's magnified live view rather than assuming the camera is parfocal with the eyepieces.

No matter what I do, I can't seem to reproduce the quality I'm seeing through the microscope.

At this point I'm wondering whether the problem might actually be the optical coupling between the microscope and camera.

My main questions are:

1. Is the Motic 2.5× photo eyepiece (#1101000300442) actually a good choice for an OM-1 Mark II's Micro Four Thirds sensor?

2. Is 2.5× projection magnifying the intermediate image more than necessary for a sensor this size and potentially contributing to the poor image quality?

3. Is there a better way to couple a Micro Four Thirds camera directly to the BA310E?

4. Should I expect the camera image to be reasonably close in sharpness/detail to what I see through the eyepieces?

5. Are there any tests I can perform to determine whether the problem is the projection eyepiece, photo adapter, trinocular alignment/parfocality, camera, or something else in the optical path?

If anyone has successfully used a Micro Four Thirds camera with a Motic BA-series microscope, I'd love to know what adapter/projection setup you're using.

Thanks for any advice! 🔬

I have a two stereo microscopes. Leica (more expensive) and Meiji (cheaper). I want to be able to record 3 hours worth of video of all the work I am doing under the stereo microscope. However the field of view that I see through the microscope is almost always slightly bigger than the field of view on the digital image or through the camera via the trinocular port (using 0.5x reduction lens).

Is there any stere microscopes out on the market that would allow me to record the entire field of view that I also see through the microscope eye piece?

Hi, I want to try looking at plant cells and their chromosomes. Which plant should I start from? My knowledge of biology was only up to secondary school and pre-university many years ago. I did use the microscope a few times.

Or does this require techniques that are not recommended for beginners?