Diatom in brightfield & darkfield 42:1

[Soki]

Hey guys,

i had my first darkfield experience days ago. I only have old random equipment and made the darkfield via a plastic-inlay made by an 3D-printer. Works pretty nice and is cheap.

I get more and more in love with photographing diatoms and hope you like it:)

Zeiss Jena microscope (1931)
Nikon D3400
Leitz Wetzlar 6FL C 42:1 0,85
(No eyepiece)
stack of 20, 8 & 40 single pictures

[grgh]

Very nice shots, the blue in the second shot, how did you get that shade?

[Robert Berdan]

Very nice darkfield images. Sometimes home made solutions are the best.
Cheers
RB

[Smokedaddy]

Well done! Very nice images.

[Soki]

Thank you

Very nice shots, the blue in the second shot, how did you get that shade?

This was actually the „natural outcome“ with inside the camera white-balance. Stronger light changed the soft pink/purple tone in this bright violetish blue.

Here a comparison picture with the same settings despite an other lightning angle and less light.

[grgh]

Thank you for the info, I do like that blue shade though, at first i guessed at a halo effect but on closer inspection could see how wrong that was.

well done.