Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2023/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > -- > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information