well I have my new microscope and a set of pre-prepared slides... Once I set it up and learn to use it, I'll have completed my early scientific revolution larp trifecta: pendulum clock, telescope, microscope
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the microscope is frankly intimidating... I haven't ventured anywhere near biology since 10th grade in 1990... and I don't think I've ever looked through a high quality bench microscope. Our high school lab had rather crappy ones that we got use one time.
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I probably logged several hundred hours of telescope time by the time I finished high school, so I have a certain comfort with that, but microscopes are basically a mystery. I'll have to learn to make slides.
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Well, it's set up and working
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Initial photos. Got the cheapest 1.3M camera available, since the quality cameras were more expensive than the microscope itself, but this is good enough for me. Bit of a tiny bug wing, some silk fibers, bit of some random tissue (bought a bunch of starter slides)
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The depth of field of the camera is limited as is the field of view, relative to what I can see through the eyepieces, and getting both eyepieces and the camera to focus at the same time is tricky. But very pleased with first "hello microscopic world"
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Now I need some microscope twitter friends. Is microscope twitter a thing? @DavidRalin do you know?
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Not comfortable throwing an @ their way, especially with time zones etc, but if you search #snouty #microscope the first ten folks that pop up should get you started.
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