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Using a Microtome and Staining for Microphotography (Podcasts 767)

In this week’s post, I share how I’ve been using a microtome and various stains to prepare specimen sections to photograph.

I’m honored to be able to bring you a conversation with one of the top microscope photographers in the field, the award-winning Håkan Kvarnström.

Today I walk you through the process of preparing a housefly to be photographed, and some tips on focus-stacking insects using a microscope.

Today we discuss killing insects to photograph them. I recently killed a housefly and photographed it. They usually just go into the trash.

The curious geek in me just figured out how to calculate the size of my microscopic specimens and magnification of my camera adapter and print sizes.

In this post, I share how I’m using Helicon Remote and Helicon Focus to create focus-stacked images in my recent adventure into microphotography.

In this post, I share the process of making citric acid crystals, as well as a number of micrographs of the crystals at 40X and 100X magnification.

I’ve dived head-first down the rabbit hole of micrography and today share where I’m at, my first attempts, and plans for my near future exploration.