Algae videos

Images made through a microscope. All subject types.

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Algae videos

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Surirella diatom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWLTvq3L ... ature=plcp

Various algae. Possibly Oscillatoria and Staurodesmus-convergens :?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXs4MYyt ... playnext=1

Cosmarium Desmid with 20x 40x 60x objectives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr6405ew ... ature=plcp

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The Cosmarium one is very nice, with all this changes in the illumination.
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Post by fpelectronica »

Very good definition of the videos
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Post by curt0909 »

Thanks Pau and Francisco. Illumination changes were very simple. Either rotating lower prism offset or moving upper prism laterally.

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Post by uaalgae »

The Cosmarium displays "Brownian Movement" of its crystals very nicely.
uaalgae

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Post by RogelioMoreno »

Nice videos.

Rogelio

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Post by curt0909 »

Thank you Rogelio and Uaalgae. The crystals are a bit of an obstacle to photograph with DIC due to their birefringence. My standard setting causes them to appear very bright opposed to the rest of the image. Even when they are not in the plane of focus they cause a bright haze that obscures the details of the focal plane, similar to a fluorescence photograph.

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