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!

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

Held the camera up to the eyepiece, showing that if you can physically couple a point and shoot camera to the eyepiece that you can capture images.

16x20

HD Video captures at 10x, focus stacked and used as a source image for the final stitch.

Photo credit: Jessica Caton Diefenbach

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

Microscope

Learning how to use microscopes!

Hillary House

Motor sled assembled.

A look inside a microscope at Otherworld Ohio near Columbus, Ohio. See www.otherworld.com/main/home-ohio

Brundlefly

Microscope

Taken at 10x on an Olympus microscope.

Photo credit: Jessica Caton Diefenbach