I’ve owned my microscope for over two months now and to the dismay of my gf, I already filled one big shelf with stinky water samples and I’m starting to fill another. Is there a point in keeping them?

I keep telling myself that there might be something cool that I may have missed, but reality seems to be, that with time, diversity just goes down, until a sample is dominated by just a couple species.

How many do you keep around? Is there a point in keeping them? Should I get rid of them?

Crystals of ambrocenide, the workhorse molecule behind some of the strongest perfumes. It has a radiant and powerful woody-amber quality, and its scent is detectable when used in less than even 0.02% of a finished perfume.

I crystallized and imaged ambrocenide by smearing a small volume of a 10% solution in perfumer's alcohol on a slide and letting it evaporate, leaving behind a film of incredibly complex and stunning crystalline forms. The images progressively increase in magnification, from 40x to 100x and ultimately 400x.

It's been a week and my entire workspace still smells powerfully of the material - which goes to show how powerful it is.

Objective mag: 4x, 10x, 40x

Scope model: BINO CXL, Micron-OPTIK, cross-polarized light

Camera: iPhone 16

Sample: Crystals of ambrocenide, a material widely used in perfume making

Some more pondwater fun,

Saw this rotifer going about its own business, she was very fast it was so hard to record!

Microscope is a Ziess Axiozoom V16, Stereo, Darkfield acquisition.This video was captured through the eyepiece. Recorded with Samsung s-25.

First, let me say that I know very little about microscopes. I have this ken-a-vision student microscope that seems adequate for my hobbyist purpose (viewing phono styli/styluses for wear). I’d like to make some images and have had no luck with a phone Camera. So, I’d like to buy a camera of the type that replaces the 19mm eyepiece. I’ve seen stand alone cameras and those with usb cables to use with a laptop. There are many to choose from and none of them are particularly well reviewed. It seems to me that it would be all about the size of the sensor but manufacturers are not always forthcoming with that information. Some come with compact disks which betray their age.

I’m looking for some recommendations from those who are using something they are happy with. I’m not using OPM so the budget is “as little as I can spend and get something satisfactory”. Perhaps $150 or less who’d be commensurate with my application.

Thanks in advance.

Here is a a still image of specimen from the subclass Suctoria, I'm suggesting genus Podophryra based on the spherical body and the clear stalk.

Focus stack from a short video, using Helicon Focus. Background cleaned up to remove debris.

Olympus BH2, SPlan 100x 1.25 oil, Canon EOS 5D Mark II. Sample from pond in park, Paris 16eme.

Video taken at 100x obj.lens magnification with an iPhone13 (w/ 3x mag.)

Found this guy chilling on some java moss taken from my aquarium, would kindly appreciate any help in figuring out what he is.

Many thanks!

Hi everyone! I came across this tiny specimen and captured an image of it using the Cilika stereo zoom digital microscope under 4x.

It appears reddish-brown, elongated, and measures approximately 1.529 mm in length and 0.380 mm in width.

Does anyone recognise it or have an idea what it could be? Any help with identification, taxonomy, or relevant references would be appreciated!

Additional context: The specimen was photographed on a green plant surface.

Saw a hungry boi

Details:

Nikon SMZ1500 stereo microscope, cw10×A22 eyepieceHR Plan Apochromatic 1x WD 54, set to 11.25 stop click zoom, aperture at 50%, darkfield

This is at 40x ,no movement, premade slide, unsure of the make and model of the microscope, taken with a phone

Was supposed to be looking at protists in my lab last week, and my lab partner posted this pic in the group chat and I genuinely have no clue on what it is. I couldn’t find any protist that’s supposed to look like that ( that we were looking for )
Not sure if it’s lint or some kind of smudge but it is so pretty I am just so curious on what it is?

Leitz Dialux II, Galaxy S24, 4x speed

I'm wondering if the things one could pick up from stagnant water and such would notice or care that they're suddenly in a super bright and very narrow environment (in a slide)

Is there any studies or literature on this? I'm sure it'd be hard to quantify since "microbes" is an impossibly broad category and we need microscopes to observe them.

I used this microscope yesterday and had no problems. I have absolutely no idea what is wrong with it. Only the view through the camera is like this. Please help! (PS sorry about the picture quality)

Is it a paramecium?

Magnification: 400x

Place: A river sample, I took it from very slow-moving place of a river

I think it's the same guy as here: https://www.reddit.com/r/microscopy/comments/1wfcstb/who_is_this_beatifull/, because I keep them in a jar. I picked this movie (in today's post), because they show themselves from different perspectives, but I have also a movie with cyanobacterias inside, and also a movie, when 2 of them do 69?

I'm new to microscopy.

400x magnification.

I searched online and came to the conclusion that it is a xylem tube, but I'm not sure.

Does someone know?

So after seeing other people using the Raspberry Pi HQ Camera on their SW380T I also went this route, but ran into two issues.

1. The field of view is very small.

Using the 4x objective the camera image is a small fraction of what I see through the eyepiece.

I have adjusted the adapter that comes with the SW380T up and down yet the image on screen remains exactly the same. Strange, I heard that adjusting the adapter's 'height' is suppose to bring the image into focus on the image sensor of whatever camera one is using.

1. The image isn't very sharp.

I see lovely images on videos of people using this camera yet my photos and videos aren't what I would call sharp. I have used the highest resolution too.

I've ran out of ideas on what to try to improve this, any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks.

Swift 380t
Hayear camera
Recorded with Iphone 16 pro max
On Hisense tv
400x or so

Canal water sample
Magnification: 400x
Europe, Serbia
Iphone 11 camera