Sunday, January 17, 2010



Microscope News© Volume 1 Number 1
Gordon Couger Publisher and Editor Jan.16.2009


  1. January 2010 Table of Contents:
    MICSCAPE January 2010 (ISSN 1365 - 070x )Exploring the miniature world Issue 171:

    Fourteen papers gets Miscape off to really good start this year.

    Mol has a handy, at least to me, new Widget in the upper left corner of each paper that puts its URL in the browsers window to help download the paper or get the link to it for things like this blog.

    1. Using 3D modelling to assist microscopy study - Mol Smith (UK) starts his multi-part series on illustrating the value of virtual 3D models to encourage an interest in microscopic and macroscopic life.

    2. The microscope of a shoeless doctor Manuel del Cerro (USA) and Lazarus Triarhou (Greece) share a humbling essay on the type of microscope one doctor had to use during the Chinese 'Cultural Revolution'.

    3. A close-up view of the wild flower pine-apple weed - Brian Johnston (Canada) illustrates that a modest weed can have interesting features on the macro and microscopic scale.

    4. Joseph Bourgogne, microscopist (ca. 1810 - after 1879) Brian Stevenson (USA) shares an illustrated essay on this well known slide preparer.

    5. The Vickers M75 microscope - David Harries (UK) describes and illustrates the features of this well engineered microscope from a famous UK maker.

    6. Optical differences between telescopes and microscopes Robert Pavlis (USA) provides a valuable overview on their differences. (Links to article in Acrobat® pdf format.)

    7. Amoeba holiday Wim van Egmond (Netherlands) presents an attractively illustrated fantasy based on an amoeba in a winter pond.

    8. Testing two Olympus "relief phase contrast" objectives on an Olympus inverted microscope. Comparison with Hoffman modulation contrast (and DIC) - Daniel Nardin (France) compares a less well known but intriguing technique with more familiar methods.

    9. A special tropical island beach Hugo Mitchell-Tapping (USA) describes and illustrates the microscopic detail responsible for a beautiful white Caribbean island beach which is composed of 'ooids'. (Links to article in Acrobat® pdf format.)

    10. Experiments using water immersion objectives Ted Clarke (USA) describes his studies of live freshwater organisms such as diatoms using the popular LOMO objectives.

    11. Microscopic recipes to celebrate the new year: A playful fantasy Richard Howey (USA) shares a light hearted essay for the new year.

    12. A close-up view of the toad lily Brian Johnston (Canada) illustrates the macro and microscopic features of this attractive flowering plant.

    13. The novitiate's odyssey part 3. A few words on creation G. Joseph Wilhelm (USA) describes his engineering project to build a stage, stand and condenser mount for a Zeiss GFL limb and setup external lighting.

    14. Notes on exploring two old slides labelled 'Nitzschia singalensis' and 'Nitzschia singalense' ... a tough classic 'test diatom' - David Walker (UK) finds that two old microscope slides of a diatom species proved to be a very challenging subject and have a fascinating background literature.




  2. NF APPLICATION NOTE 01-04 Nanospectroscopy using a Near-Field Scanning Microspectrometer.


  3. Allen Wood's page, on many things Olympus There is much more on his webpage covering a great deal more than I thought when I stated this page. Allen has an Excellent resource on Olympus, pesticides macro photography and much more. I spent hours here and I will spend more. Allen has spent a lot of time documenting his work and things he used such a UNICODE to display Greek and math symbols in word processors and web pages.

    He is following true to the quotation attributed to Bernard of Chartres and/or John of Salisbury in the 12th. Century. 'nanos gigantium humeris insidentes', that Newton is famous for for saying and we know as ",We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours." so we don't have to duplicate the work Allen has graciously shared with us.

    1. Olympus OM system close-up and macro equipment
    2. Close-up and Macro Photography for Entomologists
      1. Willem-Jan Markerink's survey of Micro lenses for photography
    3. Microscopes

      1. Compound microscopes E, F, AH (Vanox), BH and BX microscopes
      2. Stereo microscopes X-Tr, SZ-III-Tr, SZ4045, SZ6065, SZ1145, SZH, SZH10, SZX7, SZX9, SZX12, SZ61TR, Stage plates and Instructions
      3. The best collection of Microscope catalogues and instruction manuals I have ever seen on Olympus Microscopes the Internet, bar none.

    4. Indexes

      1. Index of product names and codes
      2. Index of product codes
      3. Index of Olympus America Inc. catalog numbers

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Edited by Gordon Couger Jan.17.2010 13:09 CST z-0600
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