So you are now a stone collector i assume?

Same really, when i looked at the photo on my computer :)

Really, really cool. Those remind me a bit of when we were putting colors and other stuff into dia frames and then projecting.

Not the Verbena bonariensis? I think it looks very much like that one, although i now read they grow 150cm tall, sometimes 180. I just measured mine and my guess was pretty good, its 195cm tall.

Side view of the flower

Thank you, the flower looks very similar, but i think mine is growing too tall for this to be right.

Ha, yeah that’s it! Thank you both!

It does not have many leaves really, but they look like this:

edit: But some kind of buddleia seems right i guess, thank you.

Ah, yeah that sounds good :)

I’m a bit scared of vipers, haha. Did they leave when you were getting closer? Were you just in the Pyrenees or are these pictures from another time? Really loved it there and I want to go back for more.

*edit to try better embedding, same clip

yeah that works better i guess

This seems to be a whole field of rabbit holes. Tried to wrap my head around your calculation yesterday evening, and what it’d mean for my ancient m43 cameras, that was a bit confusing at first (where is the crop factor!), i have never really messed with by-x lenses. But i think the penny has eventually dropped, haha. Then i got sidetracked on how microscope rulers are being made. I reckon you have your setup calibrated.

Thank you for the interesting pointers.

It comes with a dust cover, so no worries ;)

Oh well, haha! I watched microbehunters review, looks like a real cool microscope. Are you using any other lighting than the integrated led?

And the camera adapter, this is not just a plastic (or metal) part to fit into the tube so the camera would use the actual microscope lens, but it’s something that has its own optics too?

Yeah i guess on the other side of windows and doors, there’s the outdoors… This surely must be spam, @poVoq@slrpnk.net, don’t you think?

Yeah that is of course what i was going for with the title, i thought maybe McDonald’s bags would be too easy of a pattern to use it, since they’ve been selecting those treasure bags for generations already, almost like recognizing the peanut pattern 😁

Ha, i was just thinking about the pigeon poo because it was what i was looking at the last time i looked through a microscope. And there were in deed also cocci bacteria there.

That looks like a real cool microscope, and not even that crazy expensive. And with an actual camera mount. I’ll have to let the thought simmer a bit, not just buy one to look through it a few times then have it collect dust. Gonna follow your microscopic adventures :) Thanks for the info!

Seeing these posts kinda makes me want to buy a microscope. To research the poo of the pigeons on my balcony 😆
What kind of a microscope are you using? Do you do that just as a hobby?

Thank you for keeping your windows dirty as a bird protecting measure, i do the same 😇

I wonder if you will ever make a positive contribution with some OC of your own instead oft just trashing other people’s posts. Bit rethorical, not really wondering.

Nice topic!

…on a little trip last week in the Vosges, France.