A bit of an odd question. NBS used to sell it but it is defunct - has anyone any spare or still makes it?

Not a good winter at all. Most of it is a blur of antipsychotic drugs and I here publicly apologise for any people I have mistreated by crashing out.

Nevertheless, the most erratic of microscopists is back on his sorry nag!

My sincerest thanks. All most helpful.

Does anyone know of a source of dust-covers made to size for a microscope? I'll have no difficulty with my new Optiphot at present but I intend to add an Optizoom (Nikon Optovar) and a drawing-tube in the next few months and I've never seen a cover meant to include a drawing tube. A camera apparatus...

I wonder (I have never seen a specimen) if that is the disputed var. semiradiata, v. rare in Britain and characterised by 'distinct spines' at each angle of the lobule. Certainly the specimens I would assign to M. truncata here rarely have such developed lobular spines. I have not yet obtained a cam...

Thank you, not at all. Algal systematics is one of my great interests, if not talents.

Oh, I don't know -- Greek and Latin have their uses: my first reward for slaving was to immediately understand the meaning of 'epilimnion', 'hypolimnion', 'thermocline', oligo- and eutrophic when I first picked up T.T. Macan's volume on freshwater biology in the Collins New Naturalist series. Also L...

Forgive me, this is a really quite old thread (I dimly remember from my sister's youth discussing Japanese comics that there is some unforgivable crime called ''thread necromancy''!). The photographs are beautiful, however, Spirotaenia might not actually be a desmid. It was always thought to be a sa...

There seem to be quite a few of us :D ! @ Alan Wood -- I shall join the Quekett in the New Year once the Christmas festivities are over (not my favourite time of year -- an unrepentant Grinch who just wants peace, quiet and no bloody lights :twisted:!) and shall certainly get down. A slightly cleare...

Beautiful. Quite beautiful. However, I would be very, very surprised were it Micrasterias muricata Bailey ex Ralfs 1848. From the paper ''Biogeography of Desmids'' by Peter Coesel (Hydrobiologia 2004) we have the following diagram, M. muricata being b. http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/7...

My sincere thanks to you all. Some updates -- I have very kindly been given a Nikon 5x photo eyepiece and a UFX photographic attachment stripped out and rendered light-tight, in effect a tube which happens to be of the ''correct'' length so that a Nikon photo eyepiece will project a real image at th...

Unfortunately the description does not seem to be working. http://micropix.home.comcast.net/microsetup/index.html I have emailed Mr. Krebs, but I thought it might be useful to warn that I at least can't get it to work (Compaq 610, Mozilla Firefox). Although quite elaborate and likely far beyond me, ...

In the new year I will be looking for a laptop to relay digital camera photographs from a microscope to a screen. I would like to try and learn image-stacking and editing. I know that one gentleman uses a Samsung netbook only a little younger than my 10-yr-old Compaq with a highly sophisticated setu...

When I receive the Optiphot I'll let you know how it holds up at my end !

My sincere thanks for your reply. I will answer your question and hopefully supply a little further information. So far as I know I will receive a set of phase objectives, but it is deeply kind of you. The camera is not meant for regular photographic work, but only for microscope use [as I am sure y...