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Rocks and Microscopy

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Microscopic views of rocks using a microscope and plane or polarized light

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Ian Butler
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July 03, 2012
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experimental, geology, macro, nature
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  1. 154 images taken with a a modified Meiji microscope in cross polarised light using a Nikon D60 and direct objective projection using a Zeiss objective. Bright spots at frame centres were minimised by altering the substage condenser position, but they were still a problem. As it turns out, using a different adapter with...

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  2. Taken with a stereomicroscope using a lumix LX3 digiscoping through the eyepiece courtesy of a camlink mount. The image consists of 76 individual pictures stiched using PTGUI. Thanks to the curvature of the camera lens, plus that of the microscope this was a tricky one to stich. Not so sharp eyed observers will notice ...

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  3. 187 images taken on a home-brewed microscope (meiji biological microscope modified by me to work with polarised light and a Zeiss objective which gives a perfect, flat, field) with a Nikon D60 using direct objective projection. The section is from an OU set and is simply listed as an ignimbrite from Italy. The section...

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