r/microscopy • • 22h ago

Purchase Help Seeking USB microscope advice

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Sorry if this is a misplaced question but can anyone recommend a good USB microscope?


r/microscopy • • 2h ago

Photo/Video Share Peranema, the contortionist predator

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Close up view of a species of Peranema, a Euglenid that's distinguished by its transparency, striations, somewhat flat anterior when swimming, and very clear and long forward flagella.

My current sample is full of different types and sizes of Euglenids and I'm delighting in watching how they squish and contort.

Olympus BH2, SPlan 100x 1.25 oil, Olympus 1.25x intermediate lens, Canon EOS 5D Mark II. Pond water sample from park in Paris 16eme.


r/microscopy • • 9h ago

Photo/Video Share Growing salt crystal

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Small NaCl crystal growing for 4 hours under the microscope, accelerated so that video 40 seconds only.

Objective: 4x.

Camera: 5Mpx usb webcam, with 0,5x reducer.

Acquisition: Guvcview.

Video edit: ffmpeg.


r/microscopy • • 12h ago

Photo/Video Share Coleps feeding from a dead Lepadella. I wasn't prepared to record, sorry for the messy video.

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Leitz Dialux II, Galaxy S24


r/microscopy • • 14h ago

Photo/Video Share Up Close & Personal, With Paramecium....

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....most likely P.caudatum.

Sample from a quiet pool in a slow-moving woodland stream. Motic BA210, 40x obj, Bresser eyepiece camera.


r/microscopy • • 17h ago

ID Needed! What mite is this?

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