Amazing images of Paramecium - Pellicle and others

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Tue May 01, 2012 5:09 am

Here a set of amazing images of Paramecium that show beautiful details of the specimen.

All with plan apo 20x/0.75 objective.

I was lucky to take the Pellicle:

Rogelio

naturephoto1 · Post by **naturephoto1** » Tue May 01, 2012 5:25 am

Rogelio,

Really stunning, superb images.

Rich

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Tue May 01, 2012 12:10 pm

Rich,

Thank you.

Rogelio

Ecki · Post by **Ecki** » Wed May 02, 2012 6:42 am

Rogelio,

very nice! I love the third shot with the two vacuole complexes.

regards
Ecki

Cactusdave · Post by **Cactusdave** » Wed May 02, 2012 9:39 am

'Amazing images of Paramecium' --- no false modesty there then!

Seriously good images, the pellicle just amazing right enough.

Bruce Taylor · Post by **Bruce Taylor** » Wed May 02, 2012 7:13 pm

Cactusdave wrote:'Amazing images of Paramecium' --- no false modesty there then!

Any modesty would be false! These are as good as it gets.

lauriek · Post by **lauriek** » Thu May 03, 2012 11:41 am

They are amazing! (So is the pellicle the 'outer skin' of the beast?)

Rylee Isitt · Post by **Rylee Isitt** » Thu May 03, 2012 12:32 pm

Wow.

These are exceptional. I've seen plenty of Paramecium in regular transmitted light, but never have I seen one with this level of detail. Right down to what it had for lunch.

Is this DIC?

Mitch640 · Post by **Mitch640** » Thu May 03, 2012 5:26 pm

Wow, #2 is like a map of his town and in #4 he is wearing a chain mail suit.

Can you see the workings of all his internal parts in real time?

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Thu May 03, 2012 10:45 pm

Thank you very much all for your comments.

Rogelio

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Thu May 03, 2012 10:56 pm

lauriek wrote:They are amazing! (So is the pellicle the 'outer skin' of the beast?)

Yes, it is a protective membrane.

I was lucky to be taking pictures of that Paramecium at the moment it changed to that state, the subject on picture 3 is the same that #4, #3 was taken before #4.

Thank you for your comments.

Rogelio

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Thu May 03, 2012 10:56 pm

Rylee Isitt wrote:Wow.

These are exceptional. I've seen plenty of Paramecium in regular transmitted light, but never have I seen one with this level of detail. Right down to what it had for lunch.

Is this DIC?

Yes, all of them are DIC.

Thank you.

Rogelio

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Thu May 03, 2012 11:03 pm

Mitch640 wrote:Wow, #2 is like a map of his town and in #4 he is wearing a chain mail suit.

Can you see the workings of all his internal parts in real time?

Yes, I can see the contractile vacuoles, radiating channels, etc

Thank you for your comments.

Rogelio