Ertiocx
Carnivorous Plant Addict
I love microscopy.
I recently acquired an old broken microscope that I've been repairing, so now I can take micrographs from home. It's a very primitive setup compared to what I get to play with at work, but I'll have a lot more freedom to image whatever I want.
The microscope itself is a bit of a mashup of parts I've put together to get it working, but:
Here's a paramecium I found today filmed at 200x magnification:
I flip between brightfield and phase a couple times in the video.
You can see the contractile vacuole pumping as it swims around. You can also see a bunch of algae trapped inside its food vacuole.
I recently acquired an old broken microscope that I've been repairing, so now I can take micrographs from home. It's a very primitive setup compared to what I get to play with at work, but I'll have a lot more freedom to image whatever I want.
The microscope itself is a bit of a mashup of parts I've put together to get it working, but:
- Microscope: Leica DM-IL
- Lamp: 3W white LED
- Objectives: 5x, 10x, 20x air, 100x oil immersion
- Eyepieces: 10x
- Imaging modes: brightfield, phase contrast
- Camera: Olympus PEN E-P5
- Lens: 17mm F/1.8
Here's a paramecium I found today filmed at 200x magnification:
I flip between brightfield and phase a couple times in the video.
You can see the contractile vacuole pumping as it swims around. You can also see a bunch of algae trapped inside its food vacuole.