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I just got a new 60x dry objective and am getting the hang of it. Even with a 0.17 cover slip there is so little working distance that I have to draw excess water from under the cover slip by holding a piece of toilet paper against the edge of the slide to keep the cover slip from floating.
Here are a few desmid stack tests:

Cosmarium biretum

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Michael Reese Much FRMS EMS Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

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Sorry -- here are the others:

Cosmarium perforatum

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Staurastrum armigerum

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Micrasterias truncata

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Très belles séries de photo
J'aime beaucoup la sernière
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Post by jswatts »

These are great shots, Michael, especially that last Micrasterias. I've generally found when working with this sort of sample that large 22mm x 50mm coverslips are really helpful. Also, there's a bit of an art to letting just enough of the water to evaporate to suit the particular thing you're shooting: not enough and the little darlin's have too much freedom; too long and they're squished. :roll:

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Post by 75RR »

I just got a new 60x dry objective
Congratulations!
Agree with jswatts, last one very nice.
Had not foreseen the working distance limitations, good to know.

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Thanks guys.
When I bought my microtome, the retired doctor who sold it to me me threw in a couple of thousand slides and several thousand 25x40 and 25x50mm cover slips all of which are .22 mm. ( I test them with a digital caliper). This new objective requires .17 mm cover slips, but the working distance is so close that when I go from the 40x objective to the 60x, before I rotate the turret I have to drop the stage for clearance and then walk the focus into the subject. If I try to use the .22 slips, the objective strikes the slip before I can achieve focus. That said, for $60 on ebay, I can't complain and am please with the image quality.
I have an Olympus 60x that has very generous working distance but because of the lens flare, it is useless unless I stop the condenser all the way down and the image quality gets very poor -- primarily chromatic abberation.
Michael Reese Much FRMS EMS Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

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