In terms of chip photography, memory tends to be the most boring in that its just a zillion of the same thing, and often the pattern is so fine it just looks like a sheet of gold leaf. In this sort of botched reflected darkfield at about 3x, you can see there is a lot of structure to it that's not r...

The lighting thing must be impressive when its powered on. Can you talk a little more about it?

-- Bob

I'm liking your lichens.

That's just amazingly beautiful work, and great info on your technique.

Big chonky hard drives from the 1980's would often have a small integrated circuit mounted on the head actuator arm to do analog to digital conversions, manage head select, write current, and pre-amplification - this reduced the length of analog signal leads to / from the heads, isolating them from ...

I found a few very old power transistors and popped the top off of one to look at the guts. https://photos.smugmug.com/Infinity-Photo-Optical-K2-SC-Long-Distance-Microscope/i-bfcHkD3/0/421643d2/X3/2022-12-31-08.55.49%20ZS%20PMax_Adj-X3.jpg The crop is a bit severe as the minimum magnification of the...

Bob, the nominal DOF at NA 0.75 is about 0.8 micron if you're pixel-peeping with a critical eye, and about 1.4 micron if you're OK with the classic 0.020 mm blur circle on APS-C. (You can get these numbers easily from the DOF calculator that is built into Zerene Stacker.) My setup uses a WeMacro wi...

Those are simply gorgeous!

I actually was going to post a question today about step sizes for high numerical aperture objectives, and if would be worth the effort to trying to get step sizes below 1 micron for a NA=0.75 20x. But after reading all of the foregoing 100 posts I think I'm good. LOL.

I always wondered how that was managed. Great photo an narrative. I didn't know the subsequent divisions yields smaller and smaller daughters, that's an interesting twist to their life cycle.

Is that the flower petals or the leaves? The flowers themselves are pretty interesting when back lit.

That could be a total misinterpretstion of what I'm seeing, it just looked sort of familiat from what I have to contend with in microscopy (though obviously not nearly so pronounced) with brighter areas smearing out a bit when they're in best focus. That's what I was thinking, On the second one, th...

That really nice in every way. You see a lot of "Note everything needs to be stacked!!!" in some of the photo forums, but in this case it really does improve things and lets you express your concept a lot better.

-- Bob

Its reminiscent of those grow at home crystal kits we had as kids. Its really beautiful.

-- Bob

Which 20x are you using? A fiber illuminator should be able to pump some light in from the sides even with diffusion but it is tricky with 1mm. Nikon 20x 0.75 NA - I'm using it without cover glass, but compensating somewhat with the tube lens. ( I don't get as good a result with my Mitutoyo 20x ULW...