The offical music video to a new song of Peter Gabriel is made from artistically modified footage of microscopic water organisms. I quite like the music and the lyrics of this new song. His characteristic voice sounds pretty much the same like back in the days when he was the singer of Genesis. In c...

This is a German classic on microscopy of fresh water microflora and microfauna. First edition was published in 1973; the - to my knowledge - latest 13th edition is from 2017. I didn't know that there is an English translation. However, your spelling of the original title has a little glitch, which ...

Ray, Thanks for this note! I have been looking for suitable damping material lately, and starting today as limited special offer, the grocery store ALDI (at least in Germany) is selling yoga/sport mats made of NBR foam with the measurements l: 190 cm, w: 60 cm, h: 1.5 cm for just 12.99 Euro which I ...

Sadly even following Rik’s tip and on the Amazon US site not available to me in the uk. Yes, that's what I've found too: Amazon.com seeing that I am making contact from Germany, and then no link to another affiliated bookseller. From what I gather the new books are on the market just since end of l...

Dear folks, when yesterday I accidentally saw that there has been an apparently totally revised and updated new edition of what was once the book LEFKOWITZ, L. 1979. The manual of close-up photography, Amphoto American Photographic Book Publishing, New York. 272 pp. I remembered that many of the mem...

Björn, the "Big 4" stands for Zeiss, Leitz/Leica, Olympus and Nikon. How do all you BH-2 owners adapt your microscopes for temporarily polarising light, or other types of filters? I mean, you cannot prolong the light path by adding a sector and raising the head from the body in a finite system!? See...

Beatsy, Do you happen to have Dumonts No.5 or No.55 in your drawer for comparison? Otherwise your quest might not be completed yet?! :wink: Swiss made Dumonts are kind of a high-end lab standard, presumably for some reason. The tips of my needle-sharp #5 are the same as those of #55 that NU uses but...

Wow, that full resolution version really shows what the camera and componon are capable of. So obviously you got a lens that has not been maltreated before. :smt023 And I appreciate the background info on the beastie. (Same here: No problems in viewing the large version with Firefox 29.0.1 and Win 8...

Charlie wrote:

I liked the way a few of these looked so here they are...

As my answer allow me to rephrase this into:
I'm enchanted by how beautiful they can look when lit and photographed by a true Master.

--Betty

Nice find Ken! I rarely encounter Mutillidae over here. Dixie has a much more favourable climate for them and insects in general. (Sigh!) Looks like a female Pseudomethoca . Somewhat a bit unlike some of the Velvet ants (wingless wasps) that I have seen, I am thinking maybe a juvenile? Being holomet...

-In my daughter's hair :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Predrag, I appreciate your honesty! :D I was expecting something like that. I know lice infestations from kindergartens and schools. Becoming infested is not a sign of a lack of personal hygiene, so nothing to be ashamed of. Recently I drove by a...

Interesting find and nicely photographed, Predrag!
Where did you find it?

--Betty

See my correction: I meant chromatic aberration, of course.
But I guess this doesn't make the answer much better.

--Betty

Rik, Did you use your infinity Mitutoyo (which is in itself corrected) on a finite microscope with corrective projective or eyepiece and thus we see a correction of chromatic aberration where there was none, hence the red light on or towards the axis and the blue light away from the axis, a sort of ...

A nice and clear image!

What are the cells called, anyway?!

Cells!

Spider molt in wasp nest?

I take it is an old, abandoned nest, so it can well be that it is or has been used as a lair by other arthropods.

--Betty