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A couple of Christmas snowflakes

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Gilbert1 Regular Member • Posts: 329
Re: A couple of Christmas snowflakes

fwwidall wrote:

Like so many other people in Ontario & New York we got hammered by the recent winter storm. Happily our area didn't get too much snow, just a lot of blowing and drifting, but I'm sure that was cold comfort to all the folks affected by the numerous collisions and road closures.

It did however give me a chance to get started again on shooting snowflakes (in between shoveling them).

Here's a couple from this Christmas morning:

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View: original size (external website)

For this year I came up with a method of attaching a microscope turret to my bellows with 4X, 10X, 20X & 40X microscope objectives attached. That way I can quickly alter my magnification without disturbing my specimen. Details of my setup and equipment is over on Flickr

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It seems to be working at present, although at 40X the DOF is very small even for snowflakes.

Anyway, hope you like them and be sure to give this post a thumbs up

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Fred.

Beautiful to see. It sure is a lot of work.

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