(This is my first post. Ever. Anywhere. I hope everything works as it should. As this is my first post the "Beginners Micro" seemed appropriate.)
I've had a life long interest in protozoa and invertebrates, and I now have a bit more time to pursue this. I recently found what I believe to be Frontonia in a stock tank we use for water plants and gold fish. I collected them in samples from the muck from around the plants. They are about 300 microns long.
I am using an Olympus BHTU with trinocular head, SPlan and Achromatic objectives and various NFK relay lens with Nikon D7000 for image capture. I also use a Vivitar 283 flash. (I want to thank this community for all the information they've posted. It made setting everything up possible. It is quite a resource!) I process the images in Lightroom 4 and final sizing in Preview on a MACBook Pro.
My goal right now is to capture, as well as I can with the equipment I have, those features of my subjects needed for identification. I am still learning about post capture processing and my work flow seems, at times, quite haphazard. Any suggestions to improve image quality or formatting would be greatly appreciated.
Frontonia
2.5x, A20PL, N.A.-0.40, field size 472 microns
Oral structures. Does anyone know what the dentate structures are?
2.5x, SPlan40PL, N.A.-0.70, field size about 75 microns
Contractile Vacuole
2.5x, SPlan40PL, N.A.-0.70, field size 236 microns
Contractile Vacuole pore
2.5x, SPlan40PL, N.A.-0.70, field size 236 microns
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. Welcome to the forum - it certainly doesn't look like beginner's work to me, though.