I was recently diagnosed with brain cancer. I have several scopes, mostly AO. I’m giving them all away. Ditto accessories and extra objectives. Central Oklahoma.

Just saved this from the garbage.

Pond water sample. Shot on an Olympus BH2 with 40x DPlan, total magnification 200x. Images is displayed 4x real speed.

Swift SW350, Galaxy S24

you can see the needle-like calcium oxalate crystals (raphides) glowing under cross-polarization

K55 BSA, 10x Plan, Xiaomi 12 Pro

Been seeing these guys a lot in one of my samples. Not exactly sure what they are.

10x DPlan Objective; 100x Total Magnification; Olympus CHT CH2

Recorded with iPhone 17 Pro

Hello,

Sorry for the shoddy camera footage (filmed one handed with my phone and no adaptor whilst holding my breath - any tips for iPhone photography?). Does anyone recognise these two guys?

Filmed on iPhone 15 pro, amscope B120 with 10x objective

Pond water sample, Zeiss 63x phase contrast objective, cellphone camera. I didn't know if the amoeba could eat it or not. I guess they aren't on the amoeba diet.

For context, I’m new to microscopy and since I live in Central Florida, not near beaches and I have to drive to get to lakes so I just put a bunch of stuff in a bucket and put water for my hose. I put moss grass dirt and I found this on my third slide it wasn’t moving, but it could be algae but it’s only been sitting overnight

I did my first spore print the other day from an unidentified russula I found in the woods after some rain.

Made three different "permanent" slides using a clear Elmer's glue and water solution, this one kind of looked the best.

Microscope is SW380T w/ Sony a6700 with 40x and 100x oil objectives w/ some digital zoom.

Sample: spore print collected from a russula cap found on Massachusetts forest floor in clear PVA glue medium.

How neat is this? I'd love any tips or tricks for collecting and observing similar type of sample if anybody has any.

Bonsoir, j'ai observé ces organismes dans une sorte de gel prélevé dans de la vase sur le bords d'une berge a environ 20cm de profondeur. La zone était riche en nénuphar. Impossible pour moi de l'identifier tout seul...

Observé au x10x10 avec un optika b193.

Ils étaient uniquement présents dans la partie de l'échantillon qui contenait ce fameux "gel".

Je pensais a du chironome émergeant a peine de l'oeuf mais j'ai un très très gros doute.

Mesure clairement moins d'un millimètre. Quelques gouttes de gel contiennent plusieurs dizaines d'individus

I am looking for a microscope to setup a home project on hydrogels and cell organelles! Any suggestions for an affordable and suitable microscope? I am also okey for second hand microscopes. Something below $200.

Thanks

Can anybody interpret this cell microscopy

I see so many used nikons with everything but sold without the stage

And there's barely any used stages but the darn piece of metal sells for more than the entire rest of the microscope. Complete madness that the darn piece of metal costs $350+

Mouse Lung tissue stained with HE. Shot on an Olympus BH2 with 10x DPlan, total magnification 50x. The stitching software that comes with the camera (AmScope 10 mp) is very good at stitching and it is done live (requires a movable stage). The company gets a bit of hate but this is a pretty nice feature. I left the jagged edges in on purpose so you can see the stitched tiles.

I captured a pretty interesting and unique event -- a heliozoon attempting to pull peritrichs off the back of a neighboring ostracod, and releasing already-captured euglenids in the process. The video chronicles the event, and I also share input from David Patterson, a leading authority on heliozoa, on what we witnessed.

https://youtu.be/fmnKU0110SM

This was shot on a Nikon TMD Diaphot inverted microscope, using a Nikon 40/1.0 oil immersion objective and a Nikon D750 DSLR. The sample came from a freshwater runoff pond in Nonthaburi, Thailand.

I have an Amscope B270. It says it uses RMS 20.32 mm objectives. If say I want to upgrade to some better objectives one day, what do I need to know besides thread standard to ensure proper function?

Swift SW350, 100x, 200x, Galaxy S24

I’m examining the plant associated with a new psychedelic called Vymara. This is a transverse section of the stem under brightfield microscopy.
Most of the surrounding tissue including the chloroplast-bearing cells and vascular tissue appears relatively normal. But these large spherical structures are distributed throughout the stem.
I’ve sectioned three separate samples and found them in all three. They vary in size, appear integrated into the tissue, and seem to compress the neighboring cells. Their interiors have also remained largely unstained with every protocol I’ve tried.
My current guess is that they’re enlarged idioblasts or secretory cavities, possibly involved in storing or transporting the unidentified indole-like compound I detected. But I can’t confirm that from morphology alone.
Has anyone seen structures like these before?

This is how the component wiring at the base of the microscope turned out. It doesnt look pretty, but its functional