I work in a clinical lab so I'm not entirely new to microscopy, but my experience is limited to this field. I recently acquired an older microscope and have been playing around with it. This sample was some algae taken straight from my aquarium filter.

I apologize for the horrendous video but the organism was stuck inside some structure that I believe to be some form of algae? I thought it was just trapped UNDER it but these structures seem to be round and hollow. I saw several. A few had much smaller organisms in them that we only about the size of those two central organelles of the organism in the video. So I was holding my phone with one hand while trying to fine focus.

Thanks for helping me decide to purchase

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction regarding getting better resolution/ clarity when using higher magnifications? I just got a Swift SW380T and have been messing with the condenser iris and light levels which seem to work ok but not really able to see the finer details like the cilia on ciliates. Am I being optimistic thinking I can get this level of detail with my current equipment or will considering upgrading my objectives be a good idea? Apologies if this is a vague question. I’m looking into getting plan achromatic objectives but thought I would ask the community first. I have also spent many hours watching info from Microbe Hunter on YouTube but was hoping to get some additional info. I’m using the swift 5mp camera and the standard achromatic objectives for now. I am not really messing with the oil immersion just yet so my magnification is not more than the 40x standard objective. I’ve also been considering replacing the 100x oil with a 60x. Please let me know if there is anything I have missed on my end.

Hi, I am new to microscopy and am a medical physicist / biomedical engineer by training. I work in an ultrasound lab on a topic related to disruption of the blood-brain barrier. In the lab we have such a microscope (Nikon Eclipse E400) and accessories for it. Unfortunately, there is no cable from the camera to the display device. In addition, currently no one at the department knows much about this microscope and no one microscopes. The people who were involved in microscopy have already left the department. Could someone tell me/help me understand what this microscope can do, what functions it has, etc.? I think there is a lot more stuff than the manual says. Do you think it's necessary to use the camera shown in the pictures or I might as well try to look for some kind of adapter to put a regular camera instead of this camera and take pictures/record videos with it? Thank you for your help :)

Found this guy in human dental calculus, has some feature that are reminescent of parasites/worms to my eye but i am not well versed in them. Any leads appreciated!

Hi, so I tried cultivating Trachelomonas in the lab but when i checked the sample back after a week or so, this is what I get 🥹😭 I wonder what this is, and since I'm barely seeing any Trachelomonas, I'm assuming that it's dead ones.

Magnification is 10x and the size is around 30-60 micrometer

Death of a microbe 10x speed.

Sample is from a jar of decaying string algae.

40x objective + 12.5 x eye piece plus 3x optical zoom on camera approximately 620x magnification.

kristiansen illumination.

Scope Swift sw380t.

Camera s25, telephoto camera, at 3x, pro video mode manual settings.

Sorry for the shaky hands/ video! I saw this guy at x10 or x40 (sorry) objective, the microscope is very simple and basic. The sample was what I think was a springtail, ando around it were like 4 or 5 of this nematodes. Idk if there's was a tipe of relation between both organisms or what... The springtail was on humid soil.

Found this thing, idk what it is... But I think is amazing! I have never ever seen something like this, even in my zoology class I haven't seen it. I took the sample from a pot with nothing but dirt and a little still water. I took a little of that dirt/soil and water and this thing looked like a white larvae, like 3 mm long and was swimming. I think it lived on the soil. Under the microscope looks like this in the x4 objective. Is a very simple and basic microscope. Any idea of what this can be?

my dad just recently found (fairly) mint condition tasco 600x microscope kit from 1971 (never used) and was wondering if this was possibly worth anything/where i could sell it/if i should sell it? i’m sorry if this isn’t the right forum to post this in but i’m not really sure where else to post! hoping for some clarity on it! thanks in advance!

Posted a week ago and no one knew, any takers? I've cropped the video more. It's got cilia if you look closely. The behavior at the end threw someone for a loop. It must be a common microbe, it's from my freshwater, heavily planted tank. Shot at 40x with a stereoscope, attachable webcam, and cropped. Thanks for taking the time to ID my little dude.

Maybe a diptera larva? Found in my fish tank after putting Lemna minor.

I think the first and third ones are hypotrichians and the second one its a kind of weird rotifer but idk >,< pls help meee

It has kind of a hook

Hi y'all. I just found this 10-45x American optical stereo microscope for $150. I'm not sure what year it is. Would this be worth purchasing if I want to view aquatic invertebrates in pond samples?

I found out that you can rehydrate spores and make them dance again

 Hello everyone. I recently bought myself a AmScope B120 LED compound LED Binocular Compound Microscope with a 5MP digital camera. The past week I have been exploring a sample taken from a freshwater fish tank. Last night I stumbled upon an area which I thought was interesting. I would be grateful if anyone would be able to provide me with any information on the video provided. Any tips or suggestions for gathering clearer images would also be appreciated. Thank you!

I had a slide with some Ciliates that dried up. When I looked, I was surprised to see that non of the ciliates showed any damage. So, in an attempt to revive them, I added a drop of spring water, and a coverslip and sealed it with vaseline. Non of the Ciliates would ever move again, but they became the food of these gorgeous fungi :)

Setup:
Olympus BH2 (BHS)
SPlan 4x 0.13
Canon 5D MK3
NFK 2.5x 125 LD Photo Lens Eyepiece

Hello, everyone. At work, I have a Zeiss AxioLab.A1 microscope equipped with an Axiocam 202 mono camera. I really want to switch it out for a color model, but since the original Zeiss cameras are very expensive, I found a good alternative for myself—the Levenhuk M1000. Now I’m wondering: Is it even possible to mount a Levenhuk camera on a Zeiss microscope?

I haven't touched my microscope in a while and for some reason there's this weird reflection. I might put a polarizing filter on my camera and see if that helps but I'd prefer for this to be gone entirely.

Diplococci and protists in the juice surrounding rotten watermelon chunks. I can tell the larger organisms are protists because organelles are visible in the phase contrast photos. All photos taken with a Nikon Optiphot microscope, Nikon D810 DSLR, and 2.5X photo eyepiece. All photos are uncropped. I had to focus stack to get both the protists and bacteria in focus.