[Leica] Playing around with my Microscope again

[Aram Langhans]

Yesterday a friend said he wondered what blood would look like under the 
microscope.  He was interested in diabetes but I told him it would look 
the same as normal blood (I think).  I do not have any stains at home, 
but I did say I had some blood for a ways back when it was not deemed a 
hazard to do so.  So, in about 1979 there was an outbreak of 
mononucleosis in our small town (Odessa, WA).  Even the CDC got 
involved.  One of my fellow teachers was diagnosed, so I stabbed his 
finger and made a few smears.  I still have one so I took a few shots 
with my new scope.  These are 1000x Oil Immersion.  A few of what I 
think are monocytes (Vipul can possibly confirm or deny).  Both are 2 or 
3 image stacks.  View large if you can.

Blood - Mononucleosis - Zeiss - 3290-Edit- (leica-users.org) 
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/sc/Blood+-+Mononucleosis+-+Zeiss+-+3290-Edit-.jpg.html>

The second one was run through Topaz Sharpen AI just to see what would 
happen.  Main subject looks about the same but I sure had a bunch more 
artifacts to touch up.

Blood - Mononucleosis - Zeiss - 3282-Edit--Edit-Edit (leica-users.org) 
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/sc/Blood+-+Mononucleosis+-+Zeiss+-+3282-Edit--Edit-Edit.jpg.html>

Comments welcome.

Aram

-- 
Aram Langhans
(Semi) Retired Science Teacher
& Unemployed photographer
  
“The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself would ever have dared dream.”   James D. Watson