Well not exactly nothing. I've been fooling around with the "macro" table-top setup so much lately the microscope has not been getting sufficient exercise. So before I packed it in for the day I grabbed a slide. I put on a drop of immersion oil, a drop of machine lube oil, sprayed on a little water, and even sprayed on a little throat spray from the medicine cabinet. Slapped on a cover slip, and cruised around the slide with the DIC slider set for "Disneychrome". I normally avoid this type of color with DIC, but sometimes it is really fun to look at the colorful abstracts that occur this way.
(Two images on each 550x800 jpg, separated by a bar of R:239/G:239/B:239)
DIC eye-candy, colorful shots of nothing!
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Hi Charlie,
Nice shots....its funny, when looking at protozoa one tends to avoid using the old quarter wave plate (or equivalent) and keep the usual gray DIC background, but as soon as the subject isn't a cell or group of them, it gets tempting. Small bits of quartz from the bottom muck in the pond are nicely birefringent and I always like to light them up this way as well. Which shot has the throat medicine?
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Nice shots....its funny, when looking at protozoa one tends to avoid using the old quarter wave plate (or equivalent) and keep the usual gray DIC background, but as soon as the subject isn't a cell or group of them, it gets tempting. Small bits of quartz from the bottom muck in the pond are nicely birefringent and I always like to light them up this way as well. Which shot has the throat medicine?
--David
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