First trials with flash, pondlife

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First trials with flash, pondlife

Post by anne »

Hello everybody,

at the moment I am trying to photograph pictures with flash.
The layer thickness is still quite high, so as not to restrict the natural movement of the ciliates.

Phacus tortus in movement:
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Brachionus quadridentatus:

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Platyias quadricornis:
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Stentor:

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Very nice

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Post by Pau »

Hi Anne, very nice images!

I'm curious about your flash adaptation to the microscope, could you post it with images?
I maintain a thread on the subject:
http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/v ... hp?t=26185
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Very nice
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Awesome!!!!!!!!!!

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Post by Sumguy01 »

:smt041 Very nice.
Thanks for sharing.

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Post by anne »

Hello everybody,
thank you so much for the nice comments!

@Pau:
Here are some quick images of my flash adaption:
It s the well known mirror system, with a "semipermeable" mirror.
A specialist built this very kindly for me. I can use it on my Vanox and on my Zeiss Universal, it fits to both.

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Post by Pau »

Anne, thank you very much for posting the setup. It's very nicely constructed and interesting to see the use of a collimator lens.

I've linked it at http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/v ... 563#161563
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Your specialist should sell this on ebay ! ;)
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Post by grgh »

A specialist built this very kindly for me)

Any chance that, you could ask your "specialist".friend if he would like a link from you, for other members to contact, solely with a view for purchasing the same flash adapter.

Very handy piece of gear.
used to do astronomy.
and photography.
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Post by anne »

Thank you for the interest to the "flash cube".

Please write me a PM to get the contact data of the man(specialist) who can build this or other variations ( double collecter) for you.


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Nice setup

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Hi Anne I have been testing different flash setups on my Axioscope, using beam splitter and Nikon 800 flash unit. I have been trying to get the shutter speed higher then 1\4000 of second but so far 1\8000 of second best I could do using ISO 1600 with a Nikon D500 - I can achieve the same exposure using my tungsten light. I am going to have to work on this more - I want be able to stop some of the very fast protozoans e.g. Halteria/

Nice setup you put together thanks for sharing.

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anne wrote:It s the well known mirror system, with a "semipermeable" mirror.
Would you please tell me more about the semi-permeable mirror that is used in your setup? I know absolutely nothing abut them. Also a possible source to purchase one, meaning the mirror. I'd like to build one of these setups myself. If anyone else knows, plus jump in here with some specifics and a source.

Thanks,
-JW:
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Re: Nice setup

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Robert Berdan wrote:Hi Anne I have been testing different flash setups on my Axioscope, using beam splitter and Nikon 800 flash unit. I have been trying to get the shutter speed higher then 1\4000 of second but so far 1\8000 of second best I could do using ISO 1600 with a Nikon D500 - I can achieve the same exposure using my tungsten light. I am going to have to work on this more - I want be able to stop some of the very fast protozoans e.g. Halteria/...
Robert, if I understand well you are setting the flash to high speed mode to use camera shutter high speed. If so this is the wrong way: be aware that this mode provides low flash power long pulse while in normal mode the actual exposure time is due to the very short flash pulse and at reduced flash power the pulse is really short, take a look at the two first links at my flash thread http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/v ... 563#161563
"high speed" mode is useful for daylight flash filling but has little sense in this case at least if you can dim down the continuous light source
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Post by Pau »

Smokedaddy wrote:
anne wrote:It s the well known mirror system, with a "semipermeable" mirror.
Would you please tell me more about the semi-permeable mirror? I know absolutely nothing abut them. Also a possible source to purchase one, meaning
the mirror. I'd like to build one of these setups myself.

-JW:
JW, almost for sure she is referring to a plate beamsplitter, also known as half mirror.

With this terms you'll find some of the for sale online.
For this application I use a prism beamsplitter from SurplusSed
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