MICSCAPE - Exploring the miniature world

Issue 272 : November 2018 (ISSN 1365 - 070x) Monthly, next issue December 13th 2018.


A puck style LED as a microscope lamp. Image by David Young.

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A cheap LED lamp for vintage microscopes (puck lights) - David Young (USA) shares a practical lighting project using these useful domestic light designs. PDF

Prepared microscope slides for Christmas? - Bill Resch (USA) assesses the quality of a good value 100 slide set supplied by Amscope. PDF

The magnification changer in optical microscopy and its unusual and lesser known precursor, ie the Revolver ... of the eyepieces (!) - Stefano Barone (Italy) discusses and illustrates examples of earlier magnification changers and also a multi-discussion eyepiece tube head. PDF

Down the Ornicoco: My greatest adventure - Richard Howey (USA) shares a fun essay on Mrs. M. Malaprop's latest field trip and (mis)adventures.

A note on dissecting needles - Les May (UK) provides practical advice on the types available and their uses. PDF

Just an old microscope - Jennie Lawrence (USA) shares how she acquired an older classic model. PDF

Micscape book review: "Beyond Extreme Close-Up Photography" by Julian Cremona. Published by The Crowood Press - David Walker (UK) reviews this latest book which complements the author's earlier "Extreme Close-up Photography and Focus Stacking".

    In Focus:
    MICAM v2.4 image capture software. Thank you to Marien van Westen who has informed us of an update to his popular and versatile free image capture software with built-in features such as measurement and compatible with different types of camera.

    Micscape's 23rd anniversary. Our first issue was published in November 1995 in the early days of the Web. Thank you to Alejandro Ariel Garcia Arriaga for remembering this anniversary and for celebrating with the splendid animated gif activated by clicking the image below (animates at original size in a new window). Thank you to all our contributors and readers over the years to date.

     

    We are delighted to receive contributions small or large from microscopy enthusiasts whether a novice or expert. If you have an image, tip or article, why not share it, this magazine is what you make it!

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External links. Updated June 2016. Below are some of our favourites, which includes sites with extensive links and/or resources for the optical microscopy enthusiast.

External Microscopy forums: Places to discuss the hobby or to raise queries.
www.photomacrography.net
forums, galleries, articles on macroscopy and photomicrography.

Yahoo groups: a 'P' denotes current and archived messages are public i.e. not limited to members.
Amateur Microscopy P (started November 2008)
Yahoo Diatom Forum P
Microscope P (>1500 members, very active)
Wild M20 microscope
microcosmo (for Italian speaking enthusiasts)
CombineZ P stacking software forum created by the software's author

Facebook groups:
Amateur Microscopy (>1000 members, very active)

Listservers:
Algae-L
'Forum for marine, freshwater and terrestrial algae'. Access to Archives possible for non-subscribers.
Diatom-L 'Research on the diatom algae.' Access to Archives for subscribers only. Link was current March 2016. Many online diatom resources point to an outdated Indiana Univ. listserver. (With thanks to Rob Kimmich for the current link.)

Mikroskopie-Treff.de (Extensive German microscopy forum; some English categories.)
Mikrobiologische Vereinigung München e. V. Wide range of articles and resources in German.
Le Naturaliste French based forum and image gallery for micro / macro but open to non French speaking international contributors.

Other sites (also see Societies and Clubs page.)
Royal Microscopy Society Journal, 'infocus' and other resources for members and the community.
Quekett Microscopical Club Journal, Bulletin and meetings for members.
Light Microscopy Forum links and articles
Little Imp Publications public domain books collated by Steve Gill formerly on CD and now free on Micscape.
Mikroskop Museum German website with resources on microscopes / makers .
Molecular Expressions awesome optical microscopy resources
Dennis Kunkel's SEM images stunning images
Diatoms Ireland - resource site by Leszek Wolnik
Leitz museum an illustrated resource compiled by Robert Allen
Microbe hunter microscopy enthusiast website, forum and magazine edited by Oliver Kim
Microscopies online magazine and Forum for French speakers
Micrographia articles, projects for the enthusiast
Microscopy Today
journal with online archive
Modern Microscopy
online journal by McCrone Group
Fun Science Gallery projects, articles on optics in English and Italian.  
Independent Generation of Research (IGoR) - Wiki style resource for citizen scientists to share their work.
Lens On Leeuwenhoek - extensive resource online by Douglas Anderson
Collected Letters of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek ('Alle de Brieven ..') transcribed and free online at DBNL.
A Cabinet of Curiosities a resource on Victorian microscope slides by Howard Lynk
Klaus Kemp's 'Diatoms' website - offers regional strews and arranged prepared slides of diatoms, an 8 form test slide, radiolaria, insect scales etc and prepares arranged slides on commission.
'Diatoms Ireland' resource by Leszek Wolnik
Historical makers of microscopes and microscope slides Brian Stevenson's extensive resource .
Victorian slide makers
Cambridge rocking microtome resources including manual
www.willemsmicroscope.com Dutch enthusiast Willem Cramer's website
David Jackson's Better Microscopy blog. Regularly updated free resources extending from his 'Better Microscopy' series of books.
Stefano Barone's Diatom Shop
sale of his own prepared and arranged slides of diatoms, radiolaria, forams and scales.
www.testslides.com website devoted to Stefano Barone's Diatom Lab test slides.

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