I think this may be a first for the manual focus Nikon glass thread. Two Nikon microscope lenses. The Nikon Plan 10x 0.30 160-0.17 microscope objective and the Nikon CF PL 2.5X Photo Relay Lens Microscope eyepiece objective. I shot through both lenses to get this image. Some pennies have a mint mark below the date - this is from Denver "D" at about 25X Hundreds of stacked images (285-300) were used.
There are salt crystals on every coin I have photographed through the microscope
James Markus wrote:
I think this may be a first for the manual focus Nikon glass thread. Two Nikon microscope lenses. The Nikon Plan 10x 0.30 160-0.17 microscope objective and the Nikon CF PL 2.5X Photo Relay Lens Microscope eyepiece objective. I shot through both lenses to get this image. Some pennies have a mint mark below the date - this is from Denver "D" at about 25X Hundreds of stacked images (285-300) were used.
300 stacked. Gosh!
I can hear the CPU in your computer moaning.
How long did the processing take?
James Markus wrote:
When Barb doesn't make the bread - I only eat "Pane Turano". It's a famous Chicago Italian bread made by Mariano Turano (or his descendants) for at least 60 years. Flour water salt and yeast. It's the only store bought bread that doesn't make me ill with xanthan gum, preservatives, and all the other nonsense modern companies add to bread. It also is found both in high end stores and discount stores (huge loaves-sometimes they sell half loaves) - so the prices varies quite a bit.
Yes, don't forget that pinch of salt, been there done that :-)
DeltaSigma wrote:
300 stacked. Gosh!
I can hear the CPU in your computer moaning.
How long did the processing take?
Colin
Colin,
I didn't use Photoshop & Lightroom. I use Helicon Focus to stack images, and a WeMicro step motor controlled by my android phone using the WeMicro app for collecting images. It can be very fast, and Helicon uses my graphics card and cpu's to stack images really fast. Across my cat5 network it takes about 5 minutes per stacking method to pull the images across the network and stack (win or Mac) them. I usually stack using all three methods. On the mac mini I have one of those super fast thunderbolt 3 external drives by Sandisk (up to 3000Mbs) - if I put the images there - it is only a minute or two. Haven't compared on the new windows box using the CPU only (doubt it is faster than the GTX 1080), but will try sometime comparing my i7 3770 vs the i7 14700K - should be interesting.
Jim
My first diatom. The Nikon N Plan 10x/0.30 0.17 microscope objective paired with the Nikon CF PL 2.5x photo relay eyepiece lens = 25x in color or colour and b&w
James Markus wrote:
My first diatom. The Nikon N Plan 10x/0.30 0.17 microscope objective paired with the Nikon CF PL 2.5x photo relay eyepiece lens = 25x in color or colour and b&w
James Markus wrote:
My first diatom. The Nikon N Plan 10x/0.30 0.17 microscope objective paired with the Nikon CF PL 2.5x photo relay eyepiece lens = 25x in color or colour and b&w
That's impressive.
Scanning Electron Microscope next Jim?
Harry, those cactus flower shots were great. The light you captured on them popped them. Morten the toning on your shots is excellent, love those beach scenes.
DeltaSigma wrote:
That's impressive.
Scanning Electron Microscope next Jim?
Colin, I was driven to it by the culture taking a turn into chaos. I need order, facts, truth, and love to breath. One place laws remain unchanged are diatoms who live in geometric marvel glass houses. Feeding birds and squirrels - these are ways for me to look at the world with the distopian crap stripped away. If I could afford an electron microscope I would use it.
Jim
Thanks, I checked the interwebs and see that it's at the GFS near me. Going to go get a loaf and try it. No more expensive than "Dave's Killer Bread" brand. I'm going to guess that it's probably his descendants making the bread now. One of his sons died in 2021
James Markus wrote:
When Barb doesn't make the bread - I only eat "Pane Turano". It's a famous Chicago Italian bread made by Mariano Turano (or his descendants) for at least 60 years. Flour water salt and yeast. It's the only store bought bread that doesn't make me ill with xanthan gum, preservatives, and all the other nonsense modern companies add to bread. It also is found both in high end stores and discount stores (huge loaves-sometimes they sell half loaves) - so the prices varies quite a bit.
