Rhododendron anthers at 10x

Lord Vetinari

Getting slightly better at controlling focus movement manually with my 10x setup. Some zerene stacked shots of a rhododendron anther (one of my rhodies thinks it's Spring). Stacks are around 14-20 shots. last shot is a cross-eye stereogram using two focus stacks. The pollen grains appear to be slightly trilobate at this mag.
Last shot shows the camera setup. a 10x microscope objective mounted on a camera body cap on the end of 75mm of ext tubes. Got the idea from Ziggy here.

Brian V.

Aguadulce

Neat photos and an interesting set-up. Do you have a link to Ziggy's thread?

I have some telescope eye pieces and ext tubes, might give it a try.

Thank you in advance.

Lord Vetinari

Thanks for the comments.
Original thread here http://www.digitalgrin.com/showthread.php?t=69392&highlight=microscope

Brian V.

ziggy53

Wonderful images Brian.

Lord Vetinari

ziggy53 wrote:

Wonderful images Brian.

Thanks Ziggy - think I must have had your post in mind when I first tried this

Brian v.

Aguadulce

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Thanks for the comments.
Original thread here http://www.digitalgrin.com/showthread.php?t=69392&highlight=microscope

Brian V.

Brain V.

Thank you for the link. Excellent thread and project. I have some telescope eye pieces, marked 6x, 30mm, and 18mm. might give it a go.

Thanks again,

Mark Edell

now that's getting down there! great work, Brian.

Lord Vetinari

Aguadulce wrote:

Brain V.

Thank you for the link. Excellent thread and project. I have some telescope eye pieces, marked 6x, 30mm, and 18mm. might give it a go.

Thanks again,

Not sure if eye-pieces will work in a similar setup but no harm in trying.
Brian V.

Lord Vetinari

Mark Edell wrote:

now that's getting down there! great work, Brian.

Thanks Mark - quite a challenge trying to use the lens
Brian v.

Mark Edell

That DOF must be paper thin

Lord Vetinari

Mark Edell wrote:

That DOF must be paper thin

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It is a bit thin - somewhere around 0.15mm I think.
Brian V.