lauriek,
Many thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately, psychologically it feels a bit "lopsided" for me at this point to put a $600 4x objective on a microscope that I bought for $400 total, including 4 objectives . Needless to say, my aims are rather limited even as I do enjoy, and am quite awed by, the incredibly beautiful photos posted in the forum. Before I retired, I did use at work a wonderful microscope with good optics (Zeiss inverted, with Nomarski DIC, epi-fluorescence, etc.) I used it mainly to be able to see what I was doing [poke cells] and for measuring changes in fluorescence and the like, but, unfortunately, it never occurred to me at the time to try to use it to obtain beautiful images
Thanks again,
Rashid
A diatom?
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