Hi lybluesky, it is very complicated to adapt this system to a Olympus microscope, more easy to use an original Zeiss microscope. But the most complicated thing is to find a Jamin Lebedeff set. https://picclick.de/Jamin-Lebedeff-Transmitted-Light-Interference-Contrast-CARL-ZEISS-122461581056.html I ...

Hello,
thnaks all for the comments!
I am using a Zeiss West Jamin Lebedeff set.
A bit "homemade" is the adaption to an Olympus microscope.

best
anne

Hello,
my new toy is a Jamin Lebedeff set.
Here my first images.










merry christmas!
anne

Dear Hakan,
absolutely wonderful images, never seen in this quality before!!!
anne

Dear Lou, sorry for the delay, here are the technical inforamtions: The first three images I have done with 6,3 NPL Fluator Leitz brightfield and oblique external light. Next two images were done in DIC, Olympus SplanApo 20x, last image DIC, Olympus SplanApo 40x. Thnak you all for your kind comments...

Absolutely wonderful!!
anne

Hello,
thank you all for your comments!!
anne

Hello,
I found in my small pond a Hydrodictyon.












Anne

Hi Boron,
the mountant is Euparal and the stain is Etzold FCA:
http://www.aeisner.de/methoden/farb70.html.

Best regards
anne

Hi Robert,
really wonderful images!!!
My favorite is the last one.
BR
anne

Hello Jacek,
completely wonderful!!!!

Please can you tell something to image 4 and 5.
This is DIC and it is a stack?

BR
Anne

Thank you Smokedaddy and nanometer!! :D Kurt: Thank you for your kind comments. I am using DIC for my diatom images, not the scientific way to photograph diatoms, but for me the way to show the best details. For the the two Mastogloias where you can see them in two different levels I had the good lu...

Thank you all for the kind comments!

BR
Anne

Just some diatoms Diploneis bombus https://up.picr.de/36307043mz.jpg Navicula subacuta (Pinn) e. var (?) https://up.picr.de/36307038nv.jpg Classification welcome: https://up.picr.de/36307039pc.jpg Mastogloia angulata Lewis 1861 https://up.picr.de/36307041vy.jpg Mastogloia citrus Cleve https://up.pic...

Super!!!
BR
anne