This was very informative and clear! I am a college student taking microbiology and this helped make things more clear to me than reading from the manual. Thank you for this! :)
I'm in HOSA and using a microscope with oil immersion is one of the skills we have to learn. I found this really helpful to visualize the procedure. Thank you!!
Thank you dearly for this video. It is 10 years later but you are teaching me now. I am on a mission to help our aquarium industry in South Africa, and your video contributes to it. Much love and thanks.
Her students are lucky. Many teachers are not that dedicated and therefore you may see their students working in an institution or company while they cannot even use a microscope properly!
Just received my new microscope and found this video...the instructions with my Swift microscope are very basic and your video has helped me understand how to use all the components and accessories. Excellently informative video - thank you :o)
I thank you very much for teaching us how to do it. We have very stupid lecturers, very stupid demonstrators and they never showed us how to find a bacteria and how to do the the oil immersion. please keep posting videos like this.
Very useful! I'm using a microscope at home with my kids, and even though I have some experience in microbiology, you gave some great pointers! Thank you
Thank you so much for the details and the clear instructions how to use microscope to find the bacteria, fast . And thanks for your encouragement not to frustrated. But try hard , and to draw a circle, because the bacteria are so small, can’t be seen by naked eyes. And remember to put immersion oil only with 100x and lean focusing with fine knob.. you are amazi. I appreciate your explanation .
What a great lady. Thanks for doing this. Our teachers for this particular subject are very organised and helpful in general(hence the link to your video), but there are so many of our teachers who are not. Really chuffed and grateful that you cared enough to make this, and that you are able to demonstrate that you know about what you are teaching, and that you care about your students. Whilst the lecture at the beginning might not be important for those outside of your class, for me it demonstrates that you communicate, outline expectations, provide information and opportunities to master skills. I even bet all of your assessments come complete with marking schedules and correct answers that you use to mark them with, and you probably provide feedback. This is a novelty at our university apparently despite the HUGE EXPENSE. Anyway... thank you :) Do you teach vet clinic practice at all?
glad the advice in the video is explained in no uncertain terms. important to be very clear with these fundamentals, which are often difficult for students to grasp, myself included. microbiology is hard and it pays to be meticulous and really consider as many aspects of your technique as possible. you might think people are just being anal but, when you realise why, it usually makes sense.
Thank you for the tutorial. I recently purchased a microscope, but it came with no documentation, so your video helped to give me a lot of needed information. I appreciate you taking the time to do this.
Hey I have a quesstion and since you're the first comment can you answer a question for me? in 9:22 She said dabbing it with a can wipe or something like that. Did i mishear? If so what kind of wipe do you have to dab it with?
much aloha! I have a skills test and this is my first time using a microscope this semester! This made me a lot more confident and comfortable! Mahalo from Hawaii ^^
This is a highly detailed demonstration for using a microscope in a perfect way. I am a chemist and I have never used light microscopes ever in my life but in my research I need to use them a lot and a lot.. I have been searching videos like this on youtube to get familiar with the proper working of the microscope. I am really thankful to the instructor of this video for uploading this nice video.. Cheers!!!!! and Thanks a lot !!! :) :)
This was helpful! I’m in microbiology at the moment and had a little trouble working the oil lens. This made it more clear on what to do if I lost the focus.
This is exactly what I needed for me and my daughters to learn how to use the 100x objective lense and oil immersion. This only thing left out is whether to use oil/b or oil/a.
Thank you. I am not a biologist or a microbiologist but I am fascinated with the subject. I purchased a very nice Omax digital microscope and your videos are extremely helpful for the self learner.
Well done ! Thank's for your trick about the right condenser distance, I will use it and thank's again for the oil cleaning demonstration I kiss you Philippe
Thank you my grand father who is a scienceist got my a microskopt like this for my 12 birth day (augast 20 2012) and i just set it up and he and I didnot now how to applie the oil and now we do thank you very very much.
I have such a problem with oil immersion! My professor won't help us focus it anymore, so I'm trying to learn on my own! I can find it on every objective but oil immersion. Trying to find out what I'm doing wrong. Thank you.
I had 3 Biologies in Ontario Collegiate Studies of CANADA!! My 1st MicroScope Lab Instrument was in Grade 10 Biology,then Grade 11 Biology & Finally Grade 13 Gold Honourary Collegiate ,Ontario,Sciences.Although I was already familiar with with my Laboratory $300.00+Taxes Edmund Scientific 3 Achromatic-MFg Multi-Coated Objective Instrument, I only got my SUPERB-Lab KONUS ACADEMY with Laboratory with "Oil Immersion in May of 2011! Today,Ontario,CANADA Biologies are Grades,10,11,12.Grade13removed!!
She explained it very well, but I would still be afraid to have her as a professor because I'm a bit slow, the beauty of videos is that you can rewind them lol
I usually have trouble finding bacteria. Do you think you could show us what to look for at the main objectives, 4x,10x, 40x, and 100x, and what exactly it looks like under the microscope? I’ve been told to look for grains of sand? If there is a certain way to prepare the slide, could you also include that? This would seriously be a great help!
I been watching many tutorials about how to use the oil immersion objective but no one (not even at my school) put oil between the condenser and the slide, i learned about this some time ago, you need to do this to have maximum resolution and get a serious benefit about using the oil immersion objective, if you not do this you are going to be limited by the numeric aperture of the condenser which will be always below 1.
I wish you were my mother or instructor because you're awesome! Anyway, I'm looking to purchase oil immersion for my microscope. (I'm considering to purchase a AmScope Microscope with digital cord to PC hook up and a magnification of 2500x .) Had I not watch this video ,man,I would be regretting using 100x with oil immersion. I didn't know you damage your objective with oil immersion. Thank you so much .
I'm going to buy a microscope ..Please any advice ?? in amazon I found many different of them and got confused !! want to use it for ecological studies.
