Are you sputter coating, or vacuum evaporating with chromium? I've never had an insect sputter coated with gold have any type of noticable finish (with the...
As we get older there are other defects in the gel that fills our eyes as well. I don't remember exactly what they called it but it is a defect that cases the...
I think the sputtered coating is a lot thinner than 0.2µm, as the details one is looking at are often smaller than that. There is probably also something to...
Floaters moving in the field of vision are a problem for older microscopists, especially the nearsighted who are most prone to this condition. The floaters ...
In a message dated 12/19/02 8:17:02 AM Eastern Standard Time, Roberto Diaz ... Roberto- Correct- no EM in my basement. I'm photographing various types of...
In a message dated 12/19/02 8:17:02 AM Eastern Standard Time, Gordon Couger ... Gordon- I drove out to Surplus Shed last week, and got a "beam-splitter."...
In a message dated 12/20/02 7:40:53 AM Eastern Standard Time, MAnuel de Cerro ... Manuel- You need to use a flash with AUTO setting, that adjust amount of...
Epi-illumination DIC might take care of the surface texture. Next to SEM, it would be my first choice. Epi-illumination Darkfield would probably be second,...
... His punishment shall be that he must catch up and read all the digests he missed ! Rgds, Mike Shaw [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
All: Although I've only worked with microscopes with the square or rectangular stage (maybe I've been sheltered), I've noticed that there are also round stages...
Well, I don't have Kohler illumination, and I saw the same sort of thingies when I was a kid. Whether I've got more now, I don't know. Far as I can tell, my...
Then again, I don't recall being distracted by them when using school scopes (B&L) in 9th-grade biology class. I'm 56 years old now. ... buggers ... our ... ...
I'll mosey down to the CVS, grab me a bottle of Visine, and splash some on. Then I'll see what's what. If Visine cures it, Josan Gnik is DA MAN. If not, you...
Hello Everyone, Newbie questions follow, I recently obtained an SMZ-1B from the secondary market. Since this is not the current model it has been difficult to...
Reflect the light from the flash off a white card and slide something to block part of the light across the front of the flash is one way to get infinite...
The integrating sphere is not for transmitted light but reflected light. With exposure in manual and the shutter speed set at 1/2000 the illumination for...
You might try laying the hair in a film of an a highly bifringant substance. Let it harden and lift the hair out. Then look at it with a Pol scope. I don't...
From: <brenlaur@...> ... On modern scopes round stages almost only used on polarizing microscopes. These stages rotate and have verneir devices to read in...
The gold or gold -palladium coating used in the SEM is not used to improve image quality, but is used to carry away the excess charge built up in the specimen...
... substance. ... scope. I ... very ... interfere with actual surface. What would you recommend for a simple way to coat hairs ( at home) without the expense...
... substance. ... scope. I ... very ... interfere ... coat hairs ... laboratory ... I would say negative staining with common dyes (drying up around the ...
You could mail me the hair and I could sputter coat it for you. Gordon Couger <gcouger@...> wrote:You might try laying the hair in a film of an a highly...
Hi Mike! Happy 2003! :) I have never done a metallization to coat biological material.. in fact my metallizations were not for coating purposes but for grid...
