Closterium and a thank you.

specious_reasons · Post by **specious_reasons** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:09 pm

Been a while since I posted on this forum, but it's anything but forgotten.

I recently replaced the head of my microscope from a monocular to a trinocular. I primarily wanted the new head so I could mount the camera and look through the eyepiece at the same time. However, I was getting an annoying "ring of light" in all my pictures from the camera port.

This was the place to look, a brief scan of the technical forums found me 2 workable answers. Putting a small ring of paper in the photo eyepiece tub got rid of it.

In a bit of serendipity, I saw jc maccagno's Closterium thread, and I found my own this evening, presented here without unwanted lighting artifacts:

specious_reasons · Post by **specious_reasons** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:11 pm

Also, no darkfield pictures, but here's one in phase contrast:

Mitch640 · Post by **Mitch640** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 5:03 am

A very intersting plant that I have yet to see.

I also had the ring of light. Putting the projector lens inside my adapter did the trick for me.