Hey Guys. Got drunk and bought a microscope.
It claims it can go up to 1000x magnification, but I'm a bit incredulous about that...
Anyway. Taking requests.
I didn't realise it wouldn't come with slides, so cellular level stuff is kinda limited, but I'll pick some up as soon as possible.
Pic related is 100µm x 100µm at the absolute max zoom
A blade of grass.
A grass seed.
The Anther of a Gravilia flower with a lump of pollen on the end.
Jacaranda leaf.
Grains of sugar.
A bit of paper drawn on with graphite pencil
A Stanley knife.
Tiny Tiny ant.
I like this OP
>>2073944
You're a hero, this is awesome!
Please see if you can find more insects, they're very interesting.
Your semen.
Get some of your blood in there.
Also, a leech
I just went nuts on a bunch of roaches in the front garden with some bug spray, so I'll give them a while to stop squirming.
In the meantime, enjoy this Peacock feather.
Some kind of aphid?
>>2073970
The problem with doing little buggos is that often in the process of catching them, I squish all of their guts out through their heads and ruin the most interesting bit...
>>2073961
This
>>2073944
Awesome thread OP!
Would love to see sand if you have it, and rocks.
Roach
Moth
>>2073984
Sand.
Not really much of a geology guy, what types of rocks would be most interesting to look at?
More sand
Quartz
Bark feat. moss.
And so begins the inevitable search for a Tardigrade...
awesome thread
Growing out of the moss. Some kind of tiny fungi? Or does some moss have fruiting bodies or flowers or something?
>>2074407
Zoomed out version
Apparently you have more luck if you wet the moss.
>>2074442
Man, you guys are all super keen to see my bodily fluids.
Waterbears don't like the moss I tried apparently, but I'll try again with different moss.
Tried to scoop an earthworm out of the compost with a knife, ended up stabbing it and all this gross yellow shit came out...
>>2074447
Put the gross yellow shit under there.
But no seriously this thread is AMAZING and I LOVE these. Going to be stalking awhile.
>>2074455
speaking of, why havent you posted spermies yet op
>>2073950
Oh that's pretty cool. Try salt? Or pepper?
>>2074459
Salt.
Pepper
The edge of a new razor vs an old used one?
Fish scale?
Light bulb filament?
Thumb print? (any digit will do I guess)
A hair? (one with the root)
Pond muck
Rust might look cool
A plant with veiny leaves
My genitals? Haven't seen them in a while.
New Stanley knife vs Old Stanley knife feat. gross worm guts
post skin
open skin, post wound
fingernail
Fish food flake. I know where I can find some scales, I'll grab one next time I'm in the area.
Lightbulb filament
Thumb print
Hair root
>>2074473
Omg, this post is happening right now!
How about a hair from your toothbrush?
Hairs.
>>2074478
Pond muck and pond water I will do when I get slides.
Rusty paint can.
Veiny Frangipani leaf
>>2074488
Zoomed out.
>>2074468
Where I cut my thumb getting into the light bulb. Anyone got a guess as to what that clear stuff is?
>>2074491
glass fragments? lightbulbs shatter like a bitch
Fingernail.
Toothbrush.... Fuck that is gross...
>>2074495
Considering I do a pretty good job of brushing usually, Pic related
Earthworm head or butt...
>>2074516
Zoomed out.
The other end.
I think the first worm I tried may have had a parasite or something. It wasn't pink at all, and I just lightly glanced it with the knife it popped.
this thread is amazing, you are amazing
got a playstation controller? I wanna see the rubbery texture of the analog sticks
>>2074526
Thanks.
Unfortunately no. The closest thing I could find was the rubber around my phone's Otterbox. Not nearly as textured as an analogue stick.
>>2073944
I begged a microscope like that from my parents as a kid and was disappointed that I couldn't see microbes. The way they get away with saying 1000x is by making it area magnification. Linear magnification works out to roughly 35x. The microscopes I work with these days (livin' the dream, baby) have 10x in the eyepiece and 10/20/40/100x objectives. With actual 1000x (10x ocular and 100x oil objective) magnification, individual bacteria show up nice and big.
These are some pretty nice pictures. I like insect wings. Snowflakes are always great if you've got the weather for it and some hair spray to fix them. And any food is fun to look at.
This post is great!
>>2074529
What kind of stuff do you look at? Infection swabs and stuff?
>>2074557
Research on biofilms. We give the bacteria fluorescent proteins and look at how they structure themselves on a surface. Give a few different species different colors and we can figure out how they're interacting. I mean, most of the work is with their genetics and how they're expressing genes in those conditions, but my favorite part is the microscopy.
>>2074483
what about ass hairs?
chest and armpit?
do a comparison of dirty cloth and clean cloth like in the tv ads
>>2073944
pls fine tune the focus whenever you're at anything above 100x
>>2073944
You need to practice using the focus more. You can actually focus through things at that magnification if they are thin enough. Try slicing your softer samples at an angle then focusing through them to see interior structures. Also, assuming your microscope has its own light, use it in a dark room, you're getting to much reflection off the samples.
Post a pic and Ill tell you if it has a contrast filter. If it does you can make pseudo-3d images
>>2073944
is there an oil immersion lense?
don't try it if you don't know
Based OP , thank you
Is it possible to you to check cat hair ?
>>2074516
looks like my nutsack
>>2074407
>Some kind of tiny fungi?
>moss flowers
Are you retarded or 7?
>>2074803
Shut up man he just doesn't know about moss. Quit being an autistic asshole and just enjoy the thread
>>2074461
That's more interesting than I expected.
>>2074682
A quick one before I head off.
Burmese cat.
Grumpy Appaloosa horse.
Me.
>>2075055
How interesting the similarly between cat and horse while still being so different from a human
>>2075082
The horse hair is clearer and has split ends and stuff.
Maybe that's just because the horse lives outside and the cat lives inside.
Or maybe it's a dietary thing: carnivores have healthier hair than herbivores.
>>2073944
I one day want to be a guy that buys a microscope when I'm drunk. You're my hero OP.
>>2075086
Plus, the opacity looks different.
>>2074804
>enjoy the thread
>enjoying blurry pictures with a shitty zoom
Have one of my pictures.
Sunflower hypocotyl stained with toluidine blue.
>>2075374
postmore
>>2075377
Again sunflower hypocotyl, but with Evans Blue.
>>2075379
Sunflower cotyledon stained with Evans Blue in dark field.
>>2075379
Zeiss Axiocam
That's all for now, because I don't have time to convert huge tif files to jpg.
>>2075380
but what about camera/microscope
>>2075383
>but what about camera/microscope
camera: Zeiss Axiocam
microscope: also zeiss, don't know the exact model
hey op yo been able to see your penis with it yet? >>>:^)
>>2073944
This is on of the chillest threads I've seen in awhile, I'm on molly and im loving these photos OP.
why are you posting this on /an/ of all places?
can you do paper burning? i mean half the screen with the normal paper and the other half carbonized, with the line of fire in the middle, advancing
>>2075411
>put fire under the microscope
>>2075411
>asking something
>but not replying to any post
>>2075374
If you're not enjoying it then you have no reason to be here. No one gives a shit about you or your pictures, go shitpost somewhere else
>>2075424
>being this butthurt
Maybe the internet is not the right place for you. :)
>>2074953
>Sorry for not being a moss expert
I guess you also have to be a whale expert to know they don't have gills then.
>>2075442
I'm also curious what a highly magnified ember would look like.
>>2075471
I'll show you tomorrow.
>>2075428
Whale sharks have gills
>>2075479
>Whale sharks have gills
whale sharks aren't whales, you autistic twat
>>2074491
I don't see any clear stuff but it could be plasma
>>2075428
It is easy to see if there are gills on whales. It's not as easy to see "flowers" on moss
>>2075515
>It is easy to see if there are gills on whales
Is it? Fish don't have external gills.
On the other side, it's quite easy to see the sporophyte of a moss.
This is awesome! Do water from your tap! I bet it's awful
>>2075950
What do yo expect to see?
>>2073963
try sperm
>>2075374
post sperm or gtfo
>>2075483
yeah and koala bears aren't bears.
go back to /b/
>>2073944
let an apple or grapes in the open for some days until it gets covered in blue stuff and zoom into that
>>2076071
MOOOOOOODS, we have a 13 year old here
>>2076075
>blue stuff
You mean mold? You could just google Penicillium. That's usually the blue one on bread and fruit.
>>2076073
And you go back to
>>>/autism/
>>2075387
Nice, anon. Not OP but I have an OMAX with integrated cam for personal use but at my school we use a bunch of Zeiss and one Olympus.
>>2074463
Holy shit op, thanks for posting the pics.
Bumping so OP can post more when he gets back
>>2077683
Bump
here is some Arabidopsis autofluorescence
excuse the background, it was taken with my phone looking through the eyepiece (because the field of view that the camera captures on our scopes is BALLS)
here is a picture of an Arabidopsis seed constitutively expressing mCherry
autofluoresence of cell walls at the root/shoot junction of Arabidopsis seedlings
Great thread
>>2073944
I remember from my school days microscoped dandruff looks nice and silvery. Also /r/ obligatory inner onion skins and aquarium plant leaves.
>>2074491
Google morgellons OP
>>2073944
Look at your own cum OP
>>2081050
This
Take out some of your eyelashes and eyebrow hairs
Look for demodex.
>>2074383
CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES
>>2073945
What type of grass is that?
Great thread, op. Cool shit
>>2081966
Kek
>>2074803
>>2075374
OP was drunk, bought a microscope and started doing this. I want to believe that he is doing all this stuff drunk!!!
>>2075428
> anybody who makes it to age 8 without learning how moss reproduces is a retard.
Wew lad, I bet you're fun at parties...
Fish scale, based on where I found it, most likely Bream.
>>2083230
Zoomed in.
So, bad news guys. Looks like this thing is no where near powerful enough to do spermies.
I guess I'll just do bigger stuff and insects and such.
>>2075442
>>2075471
I'll Try again next cigarette. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it's very difficult to focus on.
>>2082221
Couch Grass I think.
>>2076075
>>2076155
Moldy bread crust.
>>2083271
Probably my favourite picture so far.
>>2078888
Aquarium leaf
The inside of a banana peel!
>>2083276
Really was not expecting that honeycomb kind of pattern...
>>2082733
In honour of St Patrick's Day, some Guinness foam for you.
>>2083270
Not a great deal better, but I tried...
Hollowed out ant I found in a spider web.
>>2083287
OP, thia thread ia great! Can I ask for more leafs and feathers? Thanks!
OP returned! I believed!
I had a microscope growing up and one of my favorite things to do was smear the slide with peanut butter and then put a micro dab of Dawn dishwashing liquid on there. Weirdly specific but I was fascinated for some reason.
I love this thread. I miss that scope so bad.
Maybe see if you can find a dragonfly or butterfly wing?
>>2083447
..What did it look like?
>>2083447
>peanut butter
>dish soap
wat?
>>2081966
THIS IS MY LAST RESORT
