The motor sled with the first two parts, showing how the screws go in.

Motor sled assembled, with motor, motor mount, and motor slide assemblies ready to be attached.

Microscope Levenhuk

I’m now the proud owner of a vintage 1960s Nikon L-Ke microscope with a trinocular head (meaning a camera can be attached without having to remove the binocular eyepieces) along with a selection of good quality Nikon objective lenses. Although a vintage model and almost as old as I am, the Nikon L-Ke that I bought is in excellent condition, is superbly built and I imagine works as well as the day it was made. Finished in black enamel that withstands the test of time and shines as new. The bodywork is excellent and the mechanical stage is in perfect condition. All original with Kohler illumination, phase contrast condenser and coaxial fine and course focus controls. Complete with the lamp assembly, working bulb and transformer which in themselves are rare items these days. It also has very attractive 1960s styling, which provides a nice contrast to my Canon 5D and 7D EOS cameras that I can connect directly to it.

Potasmum under my Microscope at 40x Mag.

purple landscape of stained Escherichia coli

Microscope

Micro-organismes prélevés dans les étangs de Bassiès (09) - (Identifications sous réserve.)

Les thécamibiens ou amibes testacées ou amibes à thèques forment un groupe polyphylétique d'amibes caractérisées par la présence d'une sorte de « coquille » que l'on nomme une « thèque »

Close up of a surface mount Capacitor

Photographs taken on a canon DSLR through a microscope.

Pen on microscope; 29cm height

(2009)

spider

NaCl

Boundary Bay North, 4x/0.16, FLUO-C6, HF B+C

Photographs taken on a canon DSLR through a microscope.

I found out I could put the camera up to the eyepiece of the microscope at school and take halfway decent pictures.

Stegobium sp. I took this photo to highlight what mischeif is caused by museum pests. The photo was taken on a NikKon coolpix mouted onto a microscope with LED illumination

Histology lecture

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Pentax screw-mount microscope adapter

I've never seen such a hot orange exhibited in rocks before. I discussed these with my lab TA and we decided they could be basalt, the iron content having oxidized during weathering. If only I had the tools, I could break open these microscopic grains of sand and know the truth!

Photographed using a microscope and polarized light

Old microscope

Microscope

2nd Place 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition: Rat hippocampus. Widefield multiphoton fluorescence image stained to reveal the distribution of glia, neurofilaments and cell nuclei. (Thomas Deerinck, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research)

Apfelstiel