Diatom test and marine sponge spicules

Linden.g · Post by **Linden.g** » Sun Feb 20, 2011 4:19 pm

I've been putting my microscope through some test. The first image is a diatom test slide using an Olympus 40x S-Plan acromate with 2.5x photo tube lens. Its a 50% crop, 5 frame focus stack using Zerene Stacker. The second image is a marine sponge spicule prep I did from a sponge found in my marine aquarium. This time 15 frame stack. The third image is at 20x and is a single image using DIC at a"grunge setting" I'm not sure if using DIC in this way is frowned up, but it does make for an attractive image.

Cactusdave · Post by **Cactusdave** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 12:53 am

Very nice pictures indeed by any standard. The stacked spicules are delightful objects, and personally I like the colour from the DIC 'detuning' used in the last image.

Pau · Post by **Pau** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 12:48 pm

Excellent images, I like in special the second one.
If it is a test, it's passed with the highest qualification!