Microscopia has more on offer than is listed as available on the website. I was in contact for an SZX12 but was able to get it from a different source.

Prices can get much lower if you go to the real used market (ebay and specialized forums) but I guess you need a source acceptable for uni?

I have not dealt with microscopia (yet?). no experience there.
They however also have the Leica successor to your M5

mikroskop-online.de/mikroskopver... is a german seller of used microscopes that I have dealt with (and it was OK). He also has some systems on offer with a trans-illumination base

Olympus had the SZH/SZH10 (predecessor to the SZX) research microscope system that has a transillumination base with supposedly good characteristics. It comes up in the used marked regularly at ok prices.

www.microscopia.de/p/olympus-sz...

What is the thing you are looking for especially? The trans-illumination base (e.g. with different lighting options)?

Ah ok. Danke! An der Strategie sind wir wohl nicht so wirklich angekommen demnach hatte ich das Problem nicht.

Warum die "Erweiterungen [...] als Must Have"? Wir haben die Erweiterungen mit drin und ich verzettel mich damit irgendwie immer. Gerade mit Waldrand (insb. den Gebüschen) kann ich wenig anfangen. Ich hatte den Eindruck es verwässert Strategien die ich im Grundspiel hatte. Was übersehe ich?

About a cup of water (80-100 ml with a syringe) directly after adding the bread to the oven (at 275/250 °C. Creates instant steam without too much temperature drop.

That's essential for a good crust when breaking bread.

Thank you Fay!

this is the final processed* result.
drive.google.com/file/d/12-v7...

printed @ 300 dpi it should scale to 1.4m on the long side.

*the background is filled black where image tiles are missing**.
** I usually don't like cleaned microscopy images but here it seemed necessary to fill.

Sure - I want to image stuff that knows up and down from the side.

Also I want to avoid turning mirrors in the optical path if possible because they add complexity. So basically just tip the whole setup of a microscope 90° so the stage travelling is upright (up/down-left/right).

If I keep it horizontal I would need one stage axis as focus/z which I do not know how to implement in micro-manager (is it even possible?)

C. chlorophaea agg. I shouldn't be posting around midnight...

Done.

Done.

this should have been a reply.

I can nearly hear, smell and feel the first photo! Great pictures - thank you for sharing.

This is something I would like to do - at least for the ones where I'm quite certain with the ID.

File size is pretty high obviously. 11-50+ mb depending on compression.

Input files ~ 29 GB! #macrophotography.