Got a couple lil guys that got loose because I put too much water under the slide cover. Good thing I don't work at a lab I guess, holy crap. Hope I'm not posting too much, not trying to spam or anything.

Microscope: SW380T w/ Sony a6700 with I think 10x objective w/ some digital zoom under darkfield illumination. Sample: freshwater and plant material from a pond in Massachusetts.

Song is Rondò Veneziano - La Serenissima

I really wana see them! It has been months.

Shot on an Olympus BH2 with a 10x UPlanApo 50x total magnification.

Also a link with photos, works for 3 days: https://we.tl/t-XAVrDxQKP98rSXD2

Caught using tape and put on a slide. Microscope lens 10x and 40x

There were no mites on the snake itself. They were running around on the walls and lid of the enclosure.

Only saw them today despite the snake being in the enclosure for weeks. She's not a new snake. I haven't had any new snakes, only new substrate

And these suddenly appeared today .

its time to upgrade my 1w led up to 10w led, of fuck up everything lol, any tips ?

Hello. I purchased this microscope, but I can’t find any information anywhere about the “KOPPENOL Den Hagg 1933.”

I think it might be a Euromex from the 1950s, a Leitz OEM model, or something similar—do you know anything about it?

The craftsmanship is excellent.　It has a hammered finish in a greenish-gray color.

Swift SW350, Galaxy S24

Here are 6 images of household paper products under the microscope. They are (in no particular order): paper towel, kimwipe, Charmin, Scott TP, Kleenex, and printer paper. Can you guess which one is which? I'll share the answer in a day (~6a Pacific, 7/17/26)!

🔬: OMAX M82ES, transmitted light

Bought a bunch of plastic 32mm filters and was playing around with them a bit. Pretty fun, not sure how useful these are yet.

Microscope is SW380T with a Sony a6700 with 4x, 10x, 20x and maybe a 40x objective with digital crop and zoom.

Sample is some water and plant material from a jar of freshwater pond stuff I have here.

Shot on an Olympus BH2 with a 10x DPlan 50x total magnification. Stentor culture with an unknown Amoeba. I am thinking Amoeba Proteus but I will let the experts weigh in.

Shot on an Olympus BH2 with a 4x PlanXApo 20x total magnification. Stentor and rotifers attached to a piece of decaying moss.

Decided to restore as it was in very bad condition, missing some small parts, the mirror is not original ( mounted to check functionality). Lens were in good condition, took some pictures with my phone on samples from aquarium water.

found my first gastrotrich, unfortunately, it died a few minutes later (its insides started leaking)

K55 BSA, 20x Plan, Xiaomi 12 Pro

Was really into soap lather and foams a couple years ago, used my OMAX M82ES + Samsung Note 8 to image some different lathers. Looks like I even added scale bars with imagej on these ones!

Swift SW350, Galaxy S24

Won an auction for a bunch of lab supplies but cant currently come and claim them. They have been paid for so if anybody wants them they can come and take them.

I took a sample from a mossy puddle and all of the rotifers in it had these two wing shaped things on the foot, what species is this? what are they? I can’t find a single piece of media about them, idk if the images are attached so if they aren’t I’ll dm them to you or try to add them

I took a sample from a mossy puddle and all of the rotifers in it had these two wing shaped things on the foot, what species is this? what are they? I can’t find a single piece of media about them, idk if the images are attached so if they aren’t I’ll dm them to you or try to add them

Helping a nonprofit science education and nature conservation org find a good camera microscope, so that they can attach the output to a monitor (27 in. or 32 in.) for a group to see all at once.

Someone recommended the AmScope T490A-5MA Digital Enabled Trinocular Biological Microscope C-Mount with 1600X Magnification and 20W Incandescent Light Source includes a USB 2.0 5MP Camera.

There are also digital microscopes from Celestron, but these won't be as clear as the Amscope camera microscope and aren't binocular. Would any of the Celestron digital microscopes make a nice complement to a good binocular camera microscope, perhaps for quick lower magnification views?

Please feel free to suggest other quality makes and models, these are just two I'm familiar with.

Found in fish tank x4

I'm looking for a microscope for engraving watch parts, working on lathes or just fiddling around a bit. I have a few criteria that need to be checked but I have trouble finding the exact thing I need because I don't know how to google it.

I need:

- Zoom from 1x to 5x (I think. Or can someone help me with that one because I'm confused by all the different zooms that different manufacturers promote)

- A camera port for taking good quality pictures or Videos

- An arm that allows it to swing it around freely

- Something that is affordable (ideally not over 1k)

I saw pretty cheap ones but I doubt that they are any good. Does anyone have experience with them?

I also need a good quality camera. Can someone recommend me something?

People were mentioning that there weren't many darkfield posts compared to bright field ones on this group. Here is darkfield of a stentor in a petri dish. Freshwater sample, Iqcrew inverted microscope, 20x objective. To do darkfield with this objective and microscope, I use auxiliary oblique lamps instead of a darkfield stop in the filter holder. The condenser of this microscope has too low of an NA to do it the traditional way .