Changing the topic slightly, there is an exciting new type of microscope just coming out of Germany called a SeeNano microscope. Kind of exciting what it can do. For instance, how about 8000x, in color with no oil immersion? And a deep field of view too? And ability to see live virus without staining.
Sounds all a bit weird. A microscope's useful magnification is limited by the wavelength of light and the numerical aperture of the objective lens in my playbook. That means around 1000x linear is about the useful limit. Empty magnification past that point.
Once I started digging around I found more quacks than facts but the better microscope does work. It seems to use some form of optical trickery with diffraction gratings or somesuch to modify the optical results plus some computer processing to get a result. Good luck with finding a clear description of how it works.
Yes, how about that? It's supposed to solve just about all the problems of microscopy. Where are the publications? It's a trade secret, it seems. But the revolutionary principle has been in use for decades, but was virtually a secret because everything was in German. Yeah, right.
Yes, I agree. I don't quite know how this new microscope actually works, but i would like to know.
Well, if it works as advertised and they start shipping at the end of May, we should start hearing reports about how well (or bad) the product is. I will watch for developments, but only out of curiosity.
Found this youtube showing a very interesting technique to improve what is seen by a microscope.
That's an important point!
I shall look forward to it with popcorn, but I doubt if I'll read about it in the press.
Not sure what the original poster is after.If I understand your question there is more than one way to do this.
I use a stereo zoom tri-nocular microscope.
I mount my tethered camera on the third tube and capture images for stacking directly to my computer.
For example:
They were single frames. But I can manually stack and process if desired.
There's a lot about Rife, widely regarded as an alternative medicine quack. So even if he invented something real the world at large seriously doubted him. I have a relative in the alternative medicine business and am well aware of the snake oil being peddled by many of those "experts".
Thanks, I keep learning.
Back about age 15 and following years I spent many hours peering at pond life, always fascinating. Low magnification and dark field illumination made for less eye strain. No mechanical stage, I simply slid the slide about by hand to follow some of the more frisky swimmers. For the uninitiated in the compound microscope everything is upside down and flipped left to right, so learning to move things the correct way soon becomes second nature.
I doubt it.
DIC is a well known technique.
Yes, they've gotten cheap.
