Hi everyone, I'd like to sell a Microscope Objective Zeiss Ph2 Neofluar 16x 0.40 160/- Phase contrast. It appears in very good cosmetic conditions. It also seems in very good optical conditions. Glass appears in very good order, without visible marks, scratches, blemishes, delamination or fungus. Un...

Hi everyone, I'd like to sell a Microscope Objective Leitz C Pl Oel 160x 1.40 ∞/0 Infinity corrected Oil immersion. It appears in very good cosmetic conditions. It also seems in very good optical conditions. Glass appears in very good order, without visible marks, scratches, blemishes, delamination ...

I try to have my say ... it looks like a young earwig...Dermaptera are hemimetabolous insects and the young seem like little adults...

Thank you for your appreciation!

Recent research has also shown that the apex of the Cicada ovipositor is strongly reinforced by numerous inorganic elements (P, Ca, Si, Mg, Na, Fe, Zn, Mn and others) ... an evolutive solution that rivals with best chromium-vanadium tools!!!

Real beauty never grows old...

rjlittlefield wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 05, 2021 10:32 pm

That looks exactly like the mechanism used by bee & wasp stingers to penetrate hide. It may be the same anatomy, just tweaked a little.

--Rik

Yes, Rik..this is a textbook case of convergent evolution!

... and it works like an electric jigsaw, driven by specific muscles ...

Hi everyone, this is not the spearhead of a proud Maasai warrior, but the ovipositor of a small Cicada. Using this toothed spearhead, the female cicada cuts a slit in woody tissue of a tree or shrub and provide a conduit for eggs to move from the reproductive tract into the wound of the branch. The ...

Hi everyone, today nothing exciting: just a Mulberry stem section (from a prepared slide) photographed by the old & fat (but still good) Leitz Apo 40 0.95 (the one with the correction collar). Apart from its absolutely non-existent work distance (0.09mm, even less than many "oil" objectives!), its "...

Really interesting! They look like stained glass art objects.

Dear Rik and dear friends, I am really very happy and proud that Photomacrography has chosen my image for the frontpage of the website. I am still a beginner in transmitted light microscope photography and this recognition gives me a lot of enthusiasm. I hope to continue contributing to this importa...

...what an incredible organism !!! just one cell, but with an impressive neck! Bravo por Louis Carlos

Another incredible case of camouflage...

Very nice stuff! I was going to ask the same question about getting the eyes "right" after inverting the brightness channel. Again a very nice technique that I should like to try one day. Hi Mark, the eyes "right" came by accident ... with Photoshop you can mix the layers together (after duplicatin...