A friend (and forum member) kindly did this for me with his 3D printing abilities and equipment after sending him the cracked nylon inserts of my two Pentax auto-bellows. I only did need to file them a bit manually and done. They work very well although a bit less silky moving than the original nylo...

I too see the weird parrot wth a bouquet of flowers.

I was sure that oxycodone was an opiod, not a powerful hallucinogen -with remote effects

Nice picture, BTW

They look very nice and (I suppose) right for the task. Just I would place the scale bar at a more conventional place like horizontal at the lower or higher right zone of the image.

Are you going to do the job at Azores? if so, enjoy! they are wonderful islands

Wow!
Excellent image stack, very clean and very good stereo effect.

Technical details, please. (all my, now old, attempts with dark field poyicistina radiolaria ended with lots of artifacts)

I like the way the pores actually look like holes instead of raised dots, for a change. Just a brightfield focus stack shot at 100x, then inverted in post. In fact they look like pores :D Excellent image and year beginning! (This reminds me an old post of mine https://www.photomacrography.net/forum...

Just guessing, but the only thing that makes sense to me would be an electronic flash, although the lamp doesn't seem to fit.
The only Leitz microscope flash devices I know are based on more conventional speedlites

Wow! Excellent quality...Even cancer cells can look beautiful. Immortality can be a bad thing

Is it a fresh or a fixed permanent slide?

Nice looking invader.
Excellent pictures, the second one is something special!

Mark, this is a most beautiful and colorful lichen cluster, very well imaged.

(I have almost the same film equipment: OM4, 50mm F3.5 and Coolscan 4000ED)

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Wed Dec 20, 2023 6:21 am

... According to him, the program does not recognize and/or command the microscope without recognizing a camera.
Does this make sense to you?

Not to me, but to Leica it likely does

Lovely SEM images

Brilliant!

The image looks excellent and the technical aspect is most interesting. (And also illumination is exquisite, even more for small WD objective) I would like to know more data: - Is the objective refocused? (from the normal infinite design position, 1mm WD) If so, closer or farther of the sample? (my ...

The old Wild M5 has an optional phototube that can be switched between left and right tubes allowing for stereo pairs manually. Just for curiosity, the M5 is a nice observation instrument but I wouldn't recommend it for imaging

Again an incredible macro journey congrats!

...but I saw some things I can't identify, like the "orange toothpaste trumpets". There's also an "alien egg..."

Maybe you're referring to the apothecia of the orange lichen and to what could be a black lichen propagule fixing on its new home