[Leica] Playing around with my Microscope again

[Aram Langhans]

Thank you Tina.  I have been playing around with microscopes since the 
4th grade.  Never owned a good scope myself until last few years, but 
always had access to some at school until I retired.  Here is a link you 
might be interested in:

2022 Photomicrography Competition | Nikon’s Small World 
(nikonsmallworld.com) 
<https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2022-photomicrography-competition>

I have been slowly looking through your fabulous portraits when I have 
some time.  Amazing body of work that you can be very proud of.  I know 
I commented once, but again, thanks for sharing them with us.

Aram

On 2/18/2023 3:29 PM, Tina Manley wrote:

> That is very interesting to me. I always loved microscopes. Thanks for posting!
>
> Tina
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Feb 18, 2023, at 6:22 PM, Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
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>> 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
>>
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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