Now we are talking really small! I took this image with with my Nikon Alphaphot-2 just to see if I could. This particular microscope had been in a lab that had experienced a fire with significant smoke damage. As a result it was covered with soot when I got it (thus I got it cheap). I have it pretty well cleaned up, but it probably needs a lot more work. In any case this is a strange little object (creature?) that was left over after a drop of water from the flower vase evaporated. The image is about 400x. I tried to calibrate it with a micrometer slide and I would guess the creature (or whatever) is about 12 microns across. I am definitely going to have to make a good camera mount so that I can take pictures of some really small creatures! I did, by the way, use Helicon focus (six images) to get the depth of field decent. I also am going to have to start reading to find out what I am looking at! The next thing I have to do is construct a better mount for the microscope to hold my D80.
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