Here's another from the kidney cell adventure. Someone asked what the magnification might be and when I did the math, things didn't add up. The nucleus is, I believe, around 2 microns. In the full res image they span around 300 pixels - 300 x 6.4 micron pixels is nearly 1000x magnification. However, we were using a 60x objective lens with oil. There is an adapter between the camera and microscope and it has optical elements in it, but my understanding was that its effect is to spread the image wide enough for the full frame sensor (the Hamamatsu camera that normally goes there is much smaller and has no intervening optics). It shouldn't be a 16x multiplier, so maybe my idea of how big the nuclei are could be flawed...
Anyway, here's another one - enjoy!
Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III
ISO 400
Olympus IX71 microscope
From two images taken at green and red wavelengths and merged






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