This microbe is too fast for my camera

[@MarieChardome]

fan tas tic video, MH!!! thank you so much. with these short info vids on what we see in our drops of pond water, (one being explained at a time)you got yourself a hit! i can't wait for the next ones. although my fav colour is blue, i am very impressed with the PC shots' clarity. what amazing footage you have anyway. happy new year all the way from NZ

[@Microbehunter]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@MarieChardome]

@@Microbehunter enjoyed it??? freakin looooooved it!

[@lgniisfire869]

Very informative video. I work in Wastewater and our Aeration Tanks are all run by these guys Vorticella and other Stalked Cilliates grow on the floc and are responsible primarily for showing your aeration tank's microbiome.

[@lmao7562]

Happy New Year Mr. Microbehunter!!!

[@mikevanderman2727]

I want to thank the person that suggested this approach and I really love that MH takes his precious time to read comments and pleases his audience. Imagine 20 more videos like this each on a different microbe, we will be waiting sir. Thanks.

[@Microbehunter]

I am working on it! :-)

[@Chris47368]

I read the thumbnail as "This may be the fatest microbe" 😂

[@mariogodbout7954]

Happy New Year !

[@Crumbed304]

Happy new year, And microbe hunting!

[@usmanshah-yg6mz]

What living microbe we can see

[@MrGorodnA]

Happy New Year!🎋🎄

[@galganael]

Love your channel!

[@philipaziz1]

Thanks for sharing !!!😊

[@miensojady]

Definitely my favourite are flagellas.

[@specktoscope]

Thanks for breaking vorticella down! I love looking at these guys too. - Specktoscope 🔬🎶

[@AdamLevyStudio]

Hello! I often see microscopy videos with this bright blue backgrounds, how is this achieved? Is it polarized light or some other technique?

[@Microbehunter]

The technique is called DIC and requires specific equipment. You can imitate this by using a blue filter (Rheinberg illumination)

[@davewinch7677]

@@Microbehunter Thanks to your videos, I was able to make my own filters for my vintage microscopes. I use many different colors for the background, depending on the color of my subject.

[@Masterpg2007]

Hey I've found some hand microscope that promises to amplify 200x, would that be enough to see some gross cells and microbes?

[@JessieTehEmoGurl]

Would methocel be able to slow down this stalk contraction enough for you to be able to capture it I wonder 🤔 Happy new year! Hope you had a great holiday season! 🎉

[@Microbehunter]

I was thinking of the same thing and when I find more Vorticellae, then I will try this out.

[@JessieTehEmoGurl]

@@MicrobehunterI look forward to seeing this video… or maybe a livestream experiment? 🤔 Either way! :D

[@bethanynicole871]

can you film urocentrum in slowmo?

[@ligablumfelde3477]

Hi! I am also doing microscopy and wondered whether you could give me some tips how to make my slides more qualitative. E.g. How to avoid bubbles? What are some interesting techniques to play with? How to stain samples (is there anything I can use without buying special dyes)? Maybe even recommendations for interesting observation objects. Thank you! 🔬

[@ligablumfelde3477]

And just wanted to mention that I understand your pain fimling microorganisms. I once tried to film one but he moved so fast that I wasn't able to move my microscope table and make it in focus fast enough. 😅

[@Microbehunter]

The mounting medium must be compatible with the specimen. If the specimen is water soluble, then use water. Bird feathers are oily, and then you have bubbles when you add water. In this case use cooking oil (and put cover glass on top). So you need to experiment. Some bubbles are OK. Bubbles can also be reduced if you add a bit of alcohol (ethanol) to the water, as this breaks the surface tension. Techniques: Polarization, Darkfield and Rheinberg are easy to do, cost practically nothing and the effects are great. Staining: not always needed, I would wait with that. And the stain is dependent on the specimen and what you want to show. But I have been successful also with fountain pen ink. If you are able to get some methylene blue, then I would use this, as this is a general purpose stain. Some aquarium shops sell it as a medicine against fish fungus infections to be added to the aquarium.

[@PolyAgain]

cuh vin diesel drivin that bih cuh

[@coni7268]

Hi @Microbehunter, I have a question about the magnification factor, for example with the 40x objective and the 10x eyepiece you get 400x magnification when you look with your eyes (through the eyepiece). What happens when you connect a camera on the trinocular head? in this case there is no eyepiece right? So, you only have 40x magnification?

[@Microbehunter]

I made a video on my other channel about this topic: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZa2n3aprcd1nJI The word "magnification" has indeed 2 different meanings, depending if you look through the microscope (no physical image on screen) and when creating an image (on monitor, paper etc). The 400x magnification refers to the image seen through the eyepiece (called "magnification"). The image is then 400x closer to the eye, compared to the standard viewing distance of 250mm (which corresponds to a magnification of 1x). The magnification when making a video is different and is the ratio between the magnified image (depends on size of screen etc) divided by the real size (called "linear magnification"). The values can easily go into the thousands. A variety of factors contribute to this. Not only display size but also pixel density etc. So the actual "linear magnification" is situation dependent and can therefore not be indicated on the image. The confusion arises, because both of these are called magnification, even though they mean different things. To solve this problem, I sometimes just say that I used the 40x objective, but this does not mean that the magnification is 40x (but many viewers requested to know the linear magnification, which I can not provide).

[@coni7268]

@@Microbehunter Thank you, I was indeed confused by that "linear magnification". I placed a ruler under my microscope and I measured the size of a ruler millimeter on my monitor, and I got very excited when I saw it measuring 260mm on the monitor, so I thought wow... 260x, so cool. Then, when I put some blood under the microscope I was obviously very disappointed seeing the red blood cells so so small. I think I understand now what happens. Many thanks again, and wishing you a Happy new year!

[@felixbouvet1746]

Alors merci beaucoup je connaissais pas du tout le voir tout seul et c'est incroyable se 😊 vortex et les propriétés uniques et la bionique ce serait trop bien que tu arrives par les transplantation génique à recréer des espèces comment peut-il faire des mouvements circulaires comme ça

[@MarieChardome]

bonjour. ces mouvements circulaires se trouvent dans plusieurs ciliates, me semble-t-il. mais l'etre complet de ce petit animal est si interessant: effectif et gracieux en meme temps. j'adore

[@jackychan4640]

Great to see your vidoe today. Happy New Year 2025 😀

[@sdrc92126]

Frohes 2025🎉🔬

[@shuaization]

Happy New Year !