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For those of you that don’t follow my work, I like to use historic optics on my microscope and see what they can do. A few weeks ago I got a Leitz darkground condenser made from quartz instead of glass (which I wrote about here) a...

Every now and then I’m lucky enough to get an unusual piece of imaging history. This one certainly falls into the ‘unusual’ category. It’s a 41mm f2.5 Ufar lens that was developed for a Soviet Mars mission in the 1990s.

Today’s post is one about the dangers of making assumptions in science…..

For background, I built a UV transmission microscope a couple of years ago. This was done for a couple of reasons; to see if I could, to use some quirky and unusual technology and equipment, and to be able to image different sunscreen components in a formulation at both long and short UV wavel...

What feels like a long time ago, all the way back in 2020, when I first started my microscope journey, I made myself a condenser using UV fused silica instead of glass. This was so I could use it for ultraviolet microscopy (you can see the early post