Red Blood Cells

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micron
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Red Blood Cells

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I have taken the plunge and purchased a Nikon D50 DSLR. Needless to say one of the first things I did was to mount it on my microscope. The pictures are noticeably better then the 4500 but the camera is not quite as handy to use. Although I would have preferred live subjects to test the camera my cultures have pretty much given up the ghost so I am forced to use prepared slides. Here is a pic that does a good job of illustrating the donut shape of red blood cells. The blood cells were found in a longitudinal section of a pituitary gland.

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Nikon D50
Zeiss Photomicroscope II
Zeiss 10x S-Kpl eyepiece
Zeiss Plan-Neofluar water immersion 63x/1.20
Zeiss achromatic-aplanatic VZ NA 1.4 condenser
Electronic flash – brightfield
Paint Shop Pro 7.0 enhancement

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Ron,

Glad to see you have it up and running so quickly. Be sure to keep us updated as to your results. Also, if you ever have a shot where you know you will need to really "stretch" contrast and levels you may want to experiment a little with shooting "raw", converting, and making adjustments in 16 bit mode.

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Thanks for the tip - I will give that a try.

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