Craig, thanks for your interest.
For horizontal use:
I have rigged up a specimen holder for this block; not pretty, but stable as can be appreciated from the lower image of the chelicerae:
HERE
the distance between the two outside tips is exactly 0.40mm.
Problem now is the halos that HF puts around parts of specimens.
Those 2 front holes are 1/8" diameter and 3mm deep with an unknown thread. However the back vertical plate is 7cm high and has potential for adding a specimen holder.
For vertical use:
I certainly prefer working in a horizontal configuration but for temporary wet mounts I really need to work vertically so that the subject stays in the horizontal plane. The Pseudoscorpion was in a vertical plane; had to leave it overnight, before photographing, to allow it to slide down to the bottom of the slide and stabilize. Much better if I could photograph it flat.
Currently I am trying to modify an enlarger stand to use the set-up in a vertical alignment.
From what I have seen, the Olympus BHMJ block appears to be more adaptable than this Nikon block.
NU.
student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives
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), but I hope it will work fine. Should get it soon.
