Selecting a microscope

[taricha]

I received my microscope yesterday and got to play with it a bit to look at my phyto culture that has been split several times now.

Here are some pics of the culture that was done on 5/15/19 (just used the last of that batch from the fridge)
All pics were taken with my iPhone looking through one of the stereo eyepieces.
The 2000X one was viewed with immersion oil;

Dang. That's nice.
I think you may have just confirmed that your culture of nannochloropsis is actually tetraselmis!

 

[Brad Miller]

Better not be, it’s Mercer of Montana nano
I better look up some cell pictures now....
EDIT...
Uh oh, it does look like tetraselmis !

 

[tupes]

I received my microscope yesterday and got to play with it a bit to look at my phyto culture that has been split several times now.

Here are some pics of the culture that was done on 5/15/19 (just used the last of that batch from the fridge)
All pics were taken with my iPhone looking through one of the stereo eyepieces.
The 2000X one was viewed with immersion oil;

Thanks for posting this. I just added to my Amazon cart and will be getting it soon. Do you hold you phone to the eye piece to take a photo or do you have the camera adapter that hooks up to computer?

 

[Brad Miller]

I just hold the iPhone camera lens to the eyepiece

 

[tupes]

Thanks.

 

[Entz]

That works pretty well, you will get a feel for it (i.e. Making sure it is flat etc).

If you have a 3D Printer, this is what I use on my M150C https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3384088

 

[Gildo]

And here are a couple of videos (any idea what the critter is?):

can you tell me what they Are? I in the samples that I analyze under the microscope I have so many! are they good or bad? And if are bad what should I do?

 

[islandbreeze]

I had good results w a cheap broadfield I think it's max 200x. Not for algae really but rotifers it's good and hatched clowns...I just put the specimen in a petri dish that's clear...I actually used a algae petri dish from aqaufarms for some nanno I cultured. What I really love a a about it is u can put small corals under it cause u got couple inches above dish for room. I love shining a blue led on angles at specimens while viewing really shows off colors. It plugs into my 55 samsung to...one zooanthid becomes 4 foot across. Fun 75 dollar investment. The amscope is def next level up tho for algae strain Id. Very cool

 

[Mjl714]

I just hold the iPhone camera lens to the eyepiece

Any updates, looks like you’ve got nice and affordable microscope. I’m interested in one of these.

 

[Brad Miller]

I’ve been Very happy with it.
Does everything I need it to do for a reef tank.
Glad I didn’t spend a fortune, I doubt I could justify anything else for what I needed.

 

[SifuMemphis]

To help identify Dino, will a AmScope M150C be enough?

 

[taricha]

To help identify Dino, will a AmScope M150C be enough?

It'll be perfect.

 

[Mr. Fishy Fish]

Is the following microscope any good for dino's, algae, cyano, and parasites?

 

[Mr. Fishy Fish]

Is the following microscope any good for dino's, algae, cyano, and parasites?

It seems like the link didn't work. It's called the BNISE Microscope, 40X-2000X

 

[taricha]

Is the following microscope any good for dino's, algae, cyano, and parasites?

yep! you'll love it.
Features that are must-have for me: metal body, glass optics, course and fine focus, light control, 10x & 40x objective.
Other nice things that are less necessary - lighting from above, a lower power objective (4x), higher power eyepeice 25x, phone holder to mount over eyepeice.
I'd probably not ever use the 2x multiplier barlow with the 25x eyepeice - I think the image will be trash - it's just included to give a higher "2000x" overall magnification.
My scope I use the most only goes to 400x, and it's plenty.

 

[iLMaRiO]

guys , is the amscope m158c still one of the best microscope to ID dinos, cyanos and so on?

any better product in the same price range?
(any dinos video/photo taken from the camera included with this microscope? i'm curious)

 

[LeftyReefer]

I got a Vevor 40x-2000x trinocular scope, with mechanical stage that I'm quite happy with. I only paid like $120 a few months ago, but unfortunately, now the same one is $175+.

 

[Superd513]

This one looks cool.

That’s super cool. I’d love to have that