Black sesame seed
Prior microscope objective 45mm, x2.7 on 160mm extension
Two Jansjo lights/styrofoam diffuser
37 images, Helicon Focus 6.7.1

http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/16_prior_peppercorn_smalll_1.jpg Black peppercorn. Piper nigrum Prior 45mm x2.7 objective on 160mm extension 2 Jansjo lamps,no diffuser Stacked in Helicon Focus http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/16_prior_peppercorn_diff_2.jpg Black peppercor...

I bought mine through eBay from a UK supplier, so I'm sorry I don't know about any US source

Mike, the background was cleaned up. Here is a frame from the stack with no post processing - not a lot of rubbish, but some: http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/16_zeiss165_st1_0005_small_1.jpg As for the resin: I figured that with a thin film the catalyst would diffuse OK from the slip i...

http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/16_collembola_st1_small_1.jpg I wanted to try out an acryllic casting resin as a microscope mountant. This is an image of a collembola specimen mounted in Polylite 32032 resin. The specimen was dehydrated in isopropyl alcohol. The alcohol was pippeted o...

A stereo pair:

http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/16_20180119212831_ZS_small_1.jpg http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/16_20180119215546_ZS_small__1.jpg http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/16_zeis165__0001_small_1.jpg Single shot (not stacked) http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/u...

It would be interesting to know what else there was in the supplement - I guess you dispersed it in water or other solvent and then recrystallised... always fun to see what appears!

Really nice images, but what temperature was this at? Boiling point of NO appears to be -152C and melting point of the solid at -164!

All the same specimen from my garden pond - is this O. fallax ?. First three: Microscope: Leitz Dialux Objective: Leitz 40/0.70 NPL Fluotar ICT Ocular: Zeiss KPL 8 DIC Sample from garden pond, Dec 2017 Camera: Canon EOS 500D. Flash via fibre optic feed http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/1...

I've not tried it with video as yet. Switching frequency is 65kHz

Here is a link to a document describing how I converted my Projectina to LED lighting.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7JMcZ ... sp=sharing

I use a Canon 500D, but have also used the 550D. The 550D tended to close down if on live view for long periods (thermal cut-out?) whereas my 500D does not and may be used for extended periods on live view.

Glaucoma? - any advances?

Microscope: Leitz Dialux
Objective: Leitz 40/0.7 NPL Fluotar ICT
Ocular: Zeiss Kpl 8
Substage: Leitz 0.9 NA ICT
Sample from Warnham Local Nature Reserve, Horsham, UK, 06-Aug-2017

Splendid stuff!