Another portrait of Paramecium

bernhardinho · Post by **bernhardinho** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:11 am

Hi folks

I observed a Paramecium too the other day. I tried to get a closer look with the oil immersion.

First at 400x

Paramecium feeding on Chlamydomonas in this sample:

cytostome (mouth) at 1000x

waffle-like cortex with somatic ciliature:

Cheers

Bernhard

gpmatthews · Post by **gpmatthews** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:59 am

Nice photos Bernhard - I think it is interesting to compare your brightfield images with my DIC images: it illustrates how different methods of observation can show different aspects of the same organism: now we need some phase images, some darkground images, Rheinberg....

Jbailey · Post by **Jbailey** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:03 am

Excellent photos, Bernhard.

I need to foul up some pond water to get a batch of Paramecium to try out my 100X oil objective. It's been in its storage can since I took it off the scope after a quick try when they arrived over a year ago.

JIm

ralfwagner · Post by **ralfwagner** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:05 pm

Hello Bernhard,

congratulations to your new toy. You have shown here beautiful pics with that new objective.

Hope to see you on Saturday!