You should try to find (or make) an algorithm that synthesizes/extracts sound effects from microscope footage so that you can hear what's going on in the microscopic world. Maybe you could even utilize different sensors to help out.
I love my 100x objective, It’s literally breathtaking and you can imagine my emotions when I am able to see my pond buddies in way superior details! I appreciate everyone who joins us here, thank you for supporting our channel and making this real! Only regret I have is not getting the 100x objective before publishing my book, but I promise my second book will have many photos through the 100x because I cannot get enough of these details! -James
Howdy, what is the real magnification that you can get with white light (and oil and every other of your tricks). Can you get an even higher magnification by going to a shorter wavelength of light? Perhaps instead of normal colors say blue and two different wavelengths of near UV? What is the highest magnification that can be done on a living thing, and what might it take to equip you to go hunting for it? I'm a patreon and I am just so glad to be able to help you (and Hank and the others) to help make this show. Dziękuję James i Kontynuuj dobrą robotę
@@aldenconsolver3428 ahh thank you! I wish I could speak Polish but I am just living here for 4 years and that’s not enough to learn this language. 😂 The maximum magnification is somewhere around 1000x, changing the wavelength to something smaller only changes 10-20 nanometers in resolution. There are some online calculators for that if you want to get more detailed information. But it’s safe to say, 1000x is the highest magnification you’ll ever get on this channel with an optical microscope, but we may dive into the realm of electron microscopy some day then can show pictures at 50000x 😀
Would it be possible by using several frequencies of near-ultraviolet to make a a pseudo color image of a living creature (it seems to me that near UV would not immediately kill a normal cell as long as the illumination was not excessive). While working at JPL I came up with a system for ‘sharpening’ images using chi-square binning and various sobel style edge sharpeners- would this be useful in microscopy? This can also be used to reduce the effect of jitter in matching images. I also used some broadly similar techniques for analyzing ground-based light observations of Venusian clouds and all things considered it worked pretty good.. I would gladly take on doing that again if it would make for better living images. I posted a comment a little while ago then decided I needed to add some more details. Thank You
Thank you for all your dedication to the field and this channel, James! Your enthusiasm is infectious and charming, and I really enjoyed "hanging out" with you and the Microcosmos team during the live stream. 😁❤️👍
There's just something mind-blowing about watching a ciliate remain stationary and then "deciding" to move. I find it insane that something so small has the ability to compute even this.
The fact that we can astounds me even more to be honest. We're nothing but collections of cells, "deciding" to move together. And think. It is, word used in its literal definition, awesome.
@@Bhatt_Hole Please note the quotation marks. You could argue the same thing about humans; we simply react to our input, we may just be complex enough that we _appear_ to have free will.
@@Bhatt_Hole I agree with this. So are we, but I think that consciousness is an emerging product of a being capable of processing information, retaining memories and being aware of itself to a complex enough level.
Wow the detail on the Tardigrade is mind blowing, looks like you can see 'skin' detail. Would love for you to revisit some of the 'larger' animals and really dig into their surface detail
I watch this series with my son, he's currently too young to understand what is going on, but eventually I think he will enjoy this series as much as I do!
I have shown these videos to my old grandmother but she denies accepting the fact that they are found everywhere and is just a matter of magnifying these samples. So please can you MAKE A VLOG LIKE a video where you start from the sample collection itself to how you manage to get it in-camera? please!!
It honestly sounds like your mother is lacking in some quality that would allow her to believe you. Almost entire planets know these organisms exists, There are entire fields of scientific study and research devoted too micro-organism. To claim micro-organisms do not exist goes against the present day to day realty we find ourselves in.
Really? How old? With degrees in Biology, Computer Science and Education... THIS 'old person' understands a LOT more than so many younger people. Explain to me exactly how your "smart" phone and the internet works. Betcha can't.
To claim micro-orgasims do not exist is just WILLFUL ignorance. Just like supposed "doctors" who now say viruses aren't real. That's OK, except that people then believe them, cause they are "doctors"!
I would love to see older topics revisited with the new objectives. Personally would like to see the hunting and eating episodes. Would be interested how what it looks like when that vampire cell pierced and sucked the cytoplasm out of those silica shelled tubes. Sorry forgot the names of both.
This was so useful. I studied physics at university (college) so we didn’t touch on optical microscopes much (I actually did a PhD in electron microscopy). I recently bought a microscope after having my interest aroused (!) after restoring a friends old microscope (I did, of course study optics). The microscope came with oil, but this seemed to go against everything i had ever been taught about microscopes. Now I see that my 100x objective is marked “oil”. Thank-you can’t wait to try it!
As Hank explained, light refracts when it exits a substance and enters medium of a different density. Oil on the coverslip has a similar density to glass and cuts out that "middleman" interruption of "thin air" that so distorts a highly magnified image.
Great channel Hank, I could barely tell it was you at the start. You sound much more calm and measured than on some of your other channels and it feels as though it lends a more thoughtful affect to the content of your commentary. Loved the video, interesting subject and very striking images.
It's always so wonderful to hear Hank get excited about science! What a fascinating way to manipulate light for a better image. I had no idea such a thing was even possible - but then, my old (practically ancient) high school biology classroom was likely provided with the least expensive, least sophisticated equipment - the bare minimum, so that when something got broken (as inevitably it would) it would not be too expensive to replace. These videos, these images, are such a feast for the eyes, with their vibrant colors. And with the awesome music and lovely narration, it just becomes something that I look forward to every single week. Thank YOU so much, for creating this journey, to share with us!
Words cannot describe the beauty of this footage.. It's so good that it brought tears to my eyes! This video, with Hank's calm narration, makes it simply incredible!
I have recently discovered this channel and I'm binge-watching all of the episodes. Still shocked how cool and high-quality content here. Narator's voice is very charming, cozy and calming.
This was part of my high school biology class but mostly from books. This way makes it so much more wonderful. It was nice to see all the tiny creatures alive. Unicellular life is hard to conceive when all you have are basic illustrations. Here you can see all the tiny processes inside. It makes them much more real
Can I put in an order for a “Microcosm of the Gut.” ? I think it would be cool to see some bacterium and learn about the human gut with the new upgraded gear.
I feel like I’ve just had a science/technology lesson and a philosophy lesson all in less than ten minutes. I’ve been watching this channel for a while and is so informative. Thank you Hank for your wonderful voice that makes this channel such a joy to listen to.
The clarity and level of complexity visible at 1000x is amazing!!! Nature has taken every opportunity to assemble structures and put things together in a utilitarian way. I bet this would go down to the molecular level if we could only see that far.
Some of the most coveted (and expensive) triplet apochromatic refractor telescopes feature an "oil spaced" triplet lens, for similar reasons as illustrated in this video, to soothe the glass-air-glass effects on refraction an air spaced triplet might have. However, don't be fooled, the views do not improve to the magnitude that they do in this case with microscopes. That's because ground-based telescopes have to look through Earth's atmosphere, which is often the biggest limiting factor into what details you can see and how high you can push the magnification before the image breaks down. The amount of turbulence in the atmosphere varies by night, so you never know where the limits are until you go out and try out different eyepieces.
It's amazing to me that there are people that don't understand just how much the atmosphere can distort telescope images. When I got LASIK a few months ago, one of the first things I noticed while watching the night sky was that I could actually see ripples moving across the surface of the moon as the air cooled from an unusually hot day. It was amazing.
@@GuyNamedSean That's awesome! Congrats on your successful procedure. When doing outreach, (chilling in public with my scope to share the view, unfortunately haven't done much of that since the whole pandemic) I've always told others when viewing the moon that the atmospheric turbulence resembles the "mirage" effect that happens in the desert or viewing over a hot car hood. Really helps the public understand why we must send telescopes to space to get our deepest and most detailed observations, and also dispel the misconception that we send telescopes to orbit to get closer to the stars.
As a newbie in the microscopy hobby, these in-depth and high-quality videos about the fundamentals are incredibly valuable. Please keep up the amazing work!
@Journey to the Microcosmos I believed I subscribed sometime two years ago I think. But haven't watched every episode, I admit. The reason I joined was because these video's are just so darn fascinating! With now my favorite; hands down being about the Lacrymaria! What a truly bizarre, yet utterly fascinating organism! Great job, and content, I hope you keep up the fantastic work! Best of luck in your future endeavors!
I'm sorry, I just love your images, your music, your stories and lessons, your writers and narrators, your videos and your whole channel. I believe it is one of the most beautiful things I've encountered in my life on youtube. thank you :)
Wow, 2021 we can see this absolutely incredible footage from something so miniscule with such detail, it really is mind-blowing when you realise what you're seeing so vividly
. COOL. I _KNEW_ THERE WAS A METHOD Y'ALL WERE USING to get that increased detail. I had more fun learning about it from this video than I would have looking it up somewhere. . GREAT STUFF!!!
Using optical magnification to look at nature is awesome, whether you’re looking at Rotifers through a 630x microscope or an Alligator through 8x binoculars.
It's funny. I come from the world of Astrophotography and there - using our telescopes - we use the same numbers (optics after all) but from a totally different 'angle'. We use aperture in mm (as it's ment to be) and thereby determine how many (in our case parallel) light beams enter. This gives us also the limit of resolution (due to physics). Than we wouldn't use "magnification" as the second number because that also depends on the sensor size and stuff. We are only interested in the size of patch of the sky we can image, so the angular field of view. And that depends on the focal length (and your optical components on the microscope have this property as well) of your main lens (or mirror) and when viewing visually of your eyepiece as well. In the latter case you calculate the magnification my dividing the two numbers. The f-ratio -like your f1.2 tells us something about the areal luminosity and gives us the focal length per aperture. The lower the f-ratio the less time you need to create an image of equal areal luminosity (even though the amount of light entering the system stays same if the aperture is untouched). Funny. One subject, two different approaches and... Ask a daytime photographer with a DSLR and a lens: they will then even another story. :-) By the way: what s great show, I enjoy each and every video even having nothing to do with this topic elsewhere. Just amazing content, well made, perfectly narrated and breathtakingly captured!!! Clear skies... Or healthy Tardigrades. What ever suites you best ;-) m.ru-vid.com
If you guys just have mountains of unused footage, it could make for some really cool videos even without a script, just some nice music and an hour of a wiggly lad making his way downtown
This was really interesting! Thank-you for explaining the differences. I didn't know that oil is used on some occasions. Now I understand and know why. You guys rock! 😎🤘
I still think your narration is out of this world and trust you to credit those that supply you with the poetic wording (if that's not you). Great video, as always...
I've been watching this channel from the early beginnings...study Astrophysics but I try to look at science in a holistic and historical lense😅 but I have to say...this channel is science communication done in a spectacular way...thanks to anyone and everyone involved. Now we just need Neuroscience and Genetics to be presented in this way...thru the microscope.