Very nice picture! Could you please tell a bit more about how they were obtained? By melting and pouring glycine on the slide or by evaporating its solution?

Bump. Next week it will be more expensive due to $/Rouble exchange rate.

dolmadis wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 27, 2022 2:08 am

Is this the same one discussed here?

http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/v ... php?t=8709

Best, John

Yes, the same model condenser

Finally found these diatom photos, COL on the left and PHV on the right. 3D effect is pretty strong on that one.

G'day everyone, it was a tough decision, but I decided to put my CZJ 60/1,40 HI Apo for sale as I use immersion objectives not so often and it's parfocal height is 33 mm and my main set is 45 mm so it's not very comfortable. It is rare later version with spring collar, but unfortunately spring is st...

Bump. Now they are selling separately.

ray_parkhurst wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 25, 2022 10:02 pm

More info hopefully in support of these nice lenses...

To the OP, I'd be interested in the 40mm separately if you don't sell the whole set...Ray

Thanks for such valuable information! I'll keep you in mind if I'll decide to sell them separately.

Macro_Cosmos wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 20, 2022 8:14 pm

They look so incredibly similar to the Nikon macro-nikkor lenses used in their multiphot system.

Never seen those macro-nikkors before, just googled them, they are really similar in terms of appearance. Too bad I couldn't find the optical scheme to compare it with Mikroplanars.

Hello everyone, I guess it's time to make an introduction post about myself. My name is Dmitrii, I'm 22 years old, interested in microscopy since school years, my first microscope was LOMO Biolam, now I'm in love with Carl Zeiss Jena 50s-60s microscopes and have 3 of them + a full wardrobe of acceso...

Macro_Cosmos wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 20, 2022 8:14 pm

Lovely! 3D effect is pretty strong, thanks for sharing.

Thanks for your comment! I also had nice 3D effect on some diatoms, will post later

Some time ago I got my hands on "3D-condenser" manufactured by Gamma Hungary, which is basically a COL condenser to my understanding. Here's a quick comparsion of this condensor's picture (left) with Zeiss Phv phase contrast + oblique lighting (right), done on Nf microscope. 40x Planachromat Phv obj...

Had a great fun collecting and looking at those "pickles" through my Zeiss Nf microscope. This particular photo is taken with Nikon D5200, 16x/0,40 Apochromat objective and MF-Projektiv K3,2:1 projection eyepiece. Circular oblique lighting with the help of phase diaphragm and Nf's standart pancratic...

Hello everyone, recently I've made a tough decision to sell some of my lens as I am no longer interested in them. This is full set of rare Microplanar lens manufactured in the USSR in very good condition. I was planning to do some macrophotography with them but never got to it as I become more inter...