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by Pau
Sun Jan 21, 2024 11:03 am
Forum: Equipment Discussions
Topic: Bellows repair with new plastic dovetail inserts
Replies: 16
Views: 952

Re: Bellows repair with new plastic dovetail inserts

Hi Betty,
The material in my case is PLA, I ignore if it's the best material but it works fine, it's biodegradable and in mines also luminescent :idea: :shock:

note: PM sent
by Pau
Fri Jan 19, 2024 10:34 am
Forum: Equipment Discussions
Topic: Help! Macro rail minimum 1µm step size is too big.
Replies: 34
Views: 3926

Re: Help! Macro rail minimum 1µm step size is too big.

Any recommendations how to overcome or improve the stepping size welcome. :) What's the step size you're getting? Do you use the microscope fine focus motor for stacking? I use the MicroMate attached to my different microscopes and microscope focus blocks driven by its own controller and software a...
by Pau
Wed Jan 17, 2024 9:34 am
Forum: Equipment Discussions
Topic: Bellows repair with new plastic dovetail inserts
Replies: 16
Views: 952

Re: Bellows repair with new plastic dovetail inserts

A friend (and forum member) kindly did this for me with his 3D printing abilities and equipment after sending him the cracked nylon inserts of my two Pentax auto-bellows. I only did need to file them a bit manually and done. They work very well although a bit less silky moving than the original nylo...
by Pau
Fri Jan 12, 2024 2:37 pm
Forum: Photography Through the Microscope
Topic: Oxycodone
Replies: 4
Views: 1049

Re: Oxycodone

I too see the weird parrot wth a bouquet of flowers.

I was sure that oxycodone was an opiod, not a powerful hallucinogen -with remote effects :roll: :shock:

Nice picture, BTW
by Pau
Mon Jan 08, 2024 1:04 pm
Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
Topic: How to best photograph parasitoid wasp collection for ID
Replies: 7
Views: 917

Re: How to best photograph parasitoid wasp collection for ID

They look very nice and (I suppose) right for the task. Just I would place the scale bar at a more conventional place like horizontal at the lower or higher right zone of the image.

Are you going to do the job at Azores? if so, enjoy! they are wonderful islands :D
by Pau
Sat Jan 06, 2024 10:59 am
Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: rocking radiolaria ; conical path
Replies: 18
Views: 5227

Re: rocking radiolaria ; conical path

Wow!
Excellent image stack, very clean and very good stereo effect.

Technical details, please. (all my, now old, attempts with dark field poyicistina radiolaria ended with lots of artifacts)
by Pau
Mon Jan 01, 2024 10:58 am
Forum: Photography Through the Microscope
Topic: Diatom: looks a bit like a SEM image
Replies: 2
Views: 936

Re: Diatom: looks a bit like a SEM image

I like the way the pores actually look like holes instead of raised dots, for a change. Just a brightfield focus stack shot at 100x, then inverted in post. In fact they look like pores :D Excellent image and year beginning! (This reminds me an old post of mine https://www.photomacrography.net/forum...
by Pau
Thu Dec 28, 2023 6:21 am
Forum: Equipment Discussions
Topic: Unknown Leitz Orthoplan "intermediate"-lamphouse with high pressure bulb
Replies: 2
Views: 534

Re: Unknown Leitz Orthoplan "intermediate"-lamphouse with high pressure bulb

Just guessing, but the only thing that makes sense to me would be an electronic flash, although the lamp doesn't seem to fit.
The only Leitz microscope flash devices I know are based on more conventional speedlites
by Pau
Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:34 pm
Forum: Photography Through the Microscope
Topic: Hela Cells fluorescence DIC
Replies: 2
Views: 1064

Re: Hela Cells fluorescence DIC

Wow! Excellent quality...Even cancer cells can look beautiful. Immortality can be a bad thing :-k

Is it a fresh or a fixed permanent slide?
by Pau
Sat Dec 23, 2023 2:11 am
Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: Pilgrim's Progress--Joro Spider update
Replies: 5
Views: 1456

Re: Pilgrim's Progress--Joro Spider update

Nice looking invader.
Excellent pictures, the second one is something special!
by Pau
Fri Dec 22, 2023 11:01 am
Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: Lichen spp
Replies: 9
Views: 1808

Re: Lichen spp

Mark, this is a most beautiful and colorful lichen cluster, very well imaged.

(I have almost the same film equipment: OM4, 50mm F3.5 and Coolscan 4000ED) :D
by Pau
Wed Dec 20, 2023 7:49 am
Forum: Equipment Discussions
Topic: Leica distribution box
Replies: 26
Views: 5443

Re: Leica distribution box

pedroalves wrote:
Wed Dec 20, 2023 6:21 am
... According to him, the program does not recognize and/or command the microscope without recognizing a camera.
Does this make sense to you?
Not to me, but to Leica it likely does :evil:
by Pau
Thu Dec 14, 2023 9:07 am
Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
Topic: Debunking the high NA / coverslip correction myth
Replies: 75
Views: 33767

Re: Debunking the high NA / coverslip correction myth

The image looks excellent and the technical aspect is most interesting. (And also illumination is exquisite, even more for small WD objective) I would like to know more data: - Is the objective refocused? (from the normal infinite design position, 1mm WD) If so, closer or farther of the sample? (my ...