A story in three pictures

Some plant pollen from my garden, captured by pointing an Ixus V3 at the lens of an antique microscope. The camera was angled to maximize chromatic abberation from the microscope lens, which provides all the coloring.

Deutsches Museum

Microscope

(turned from brass blanks)

Source: E. C. Bolles Collection of Microscope Slides, San Diego Natural History Museum.

Image id: SDNHM_Microscope_Slides_004

Photographed using a microscope and polarized light

Photo credit: Jessica Caton Diefenbach

Microscope

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I'm surprised it even works. And it does! Or at least it did a few years ago when I took this.

Microscope XY automation parts - part of the Small World Explorations Project - smallworldexplorations.com

Photographs taken on a canon DSLR through a microscope.

Issu d'un prélèvement effectué vers 1700m d'altitude, au niveau du déversoir de l'étang d'Artax gelé.

Pentax screw-mount microscope adapter

Pentax screw-mount microscope adapter

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Foldscope is a revolutionary microscope built by Indian scientist Manu Prakash, costing around $1. It is a DIY paper microscope, designed to be portable and durable while performing on par with conventional research microscopes (140X magnification and 2-micron resolution). It is part of the "frugal science" movement which aims to make cheap and easy tools available for scientific use in the developing world.

© UNESCO-UNEVOC/ Arpan Chowdhury CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

pelusa

Sourdough starter - yeast

Taken using the tiny lens of a Zire 72 camera, handheld, at the eyepiece of a microscope.

Dryer lint under polarizing light microscope

on peut observer un lymphocyte et une majorité de globules rouges

Maximum magnification

Microscope

Sharpening stone: Gritalon 64С М14 СТ3

(Silicon Carbide F600 ~ 14mkm. grain size)