For starters, see the article at https://zerenesystems.com/cms/stacker/docs/troubleshooting/ringversusrail .

Then feel free to discuss further here. I wrote that article, so I'll be happy to expand or clarify as needed.

--Rik

I agree that people may see the plastic wrap as scratches. I certainly did.

But be aware, the link in your posting is broken so it leads only to an error page, not an explanation.

--Rik

I use the mjkzz Qool rail with IR controller. I use a longer exposure (0.6-1s) and set the speedlichts to flash after 0.3s to eliminate vibration from the rear curtain. Ah, thanks. So then, the technique described at https://www.mjkzz.com/single-post/2018/05/08/flashes-continuous-lights-and-flash-t...

Bart, welcome to image posting.* These images are very nice -- great light especially on the shiniest scales! I am puzzled, what does "mid curtain flash" mean? --Rik *(One minor niggle: the posting guidelines indicate a limit of 6 images per day in the image galleries. We do make exceptions to that ...

Nice video!

This is not my area of expertise, but I wonder if the fugitives are things that the Stentor sucked in, could not digest, and is now getting rid of.

See https://www.microbehunter.com/microscop ... 3&p=110469 .

I have no clue about ID on the fugitives.

--Rik

In earlier posts ( HERE and HERE ), I have shown and talked about the whiteflies and parasitic wasps that took up residence on a basil plant in my kitchen. The wasps are Encarsia formosa , or something very much like them. These critters have a very lopsided distribution of genders in their populati...

Visit https://www.chaosofdelight.org/ and you will be instantly introduced to the world as photographed by Andy Murray, up close and personal with springtails going about their daily lives. Visit https://youtu.be/0DShg_4Hlkk?t=1 , and you can listen to Andy talk about why and how he shoots those pho...

Thanks for the interest and feedback. I hasten to point out that I have cribbed shamelessly off other people's ideas, particular those videos by Allan. The use of stiffer material for the cage is a good option to pursue. I will be very interested to see what you come up with, and I'm quite sure Alla...

My Chrome browser does such text translations also. This happens automatically when the whole page is in foreign language. In the case here with veed.io, the translation in browser does not work because the voice-to-text German subtitles are encoded in some strange way that prevents the browser from...

The previously mentioned flying aphids came out so badly that I never bothered photographing them. But more recently, I had another occasion to try drying with HMDS, this time with some small wasps. These are the parasites on whiteflies that I have posted about HERE and HERE . These subjects are tin...

The May 2022 issue of IEEE Spectrum describes an imaging technique that was new to me: "ptychographic X-ray laminography". The entire article appears to be publicly available: https://spectrum.ieee.org/chip-x-ray . Quick summary is that the authors are using a form of scanning X-ray diffraction, to ...

These are lovely!

--Rik

Got it, thanks. There's a nice video at 1:50-2:00 of https://av.tib.eu/media/11548 . As an experiment, I downloaded the video, extracted the audio, and uploaded that to veed.io to generate subtitles from the audio. For the indicated section, veed.io gave: Die Antheren der männlichen Blüten platzen b...

...specific spacing and diameter of the entrance hole... With the nosepiece it is much better as I remember. Mine did not have a nosepiece, but I experimented with adding a conical hood. That worked sort of OK in terms of controlling the stray light, but only when the hood extended so far from the ...

...you told that there are no burs or sharp corners. Is the a cross bore (without chamfers) where the O-Ring has to be pussed over? Those cutting lines would fit perfectly for that. Not quite right -- I said only that I found no burrs. I did not specifically check for sharp corners without burrs, b...