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I got one of those cheap USB digital microscopes today. Here is the first picture I took with it. Nothing as stunning as some of the others here, but not bad for $20 USD.

 

These are small bryozoan that are encrusting a brachiopod valve. I found them while prepping the valve. The one on the left is 1mm wide.

 

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1 hour ago, FossilNerd said:

got one of those cheap USB digital microscopes today. Here is the first picture I took with it. Nothing as stunning as some of the others here, but not bad for $20 USD.

Nice photo Wayne and it sounds like a bargain. I hope you enjoy the wonderful world of fossils up close . Please can you post a picture of your microscope .

 

cheers Bobby 

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8 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said:

Nice photo Wayne and it sounds like a bargain. I hope you enjoy the wonderful world of fossils up close . Please can you post a picture of your microscope .

 

cheers Bobby 

Thanks Bobby. I think that I will enjoy seeing the finer details very much. :)

 

Here is a quick pic of the scope that I pulled off line. I’ll try and get you a picture of it in action in a few. 
 

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Here is a nice Peltosaurus lower jaw section with 20 teeth fro the Oligocene Brule Formation of South Dakota.

 

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1 hour ago, FossilNerd said:

Thanks Bobby. I think that I will enjoy seeing the finer details very much. :)

 

Here is a quick pic of the scope that I pulled off line. I’ll try and get you a picture of it in action in a few. 
 

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@FossilNerd      Did this require a software install? If yes, which operating systems (Win 10)?  I've been using a cellphone lens adapter. The pics are decent but somewhat tedious using the various lenses.

 

Thank you, Kato

 

 

 

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I found this fusulinid specimen in a Pennsylvanian formation locally. It had some odd orange blobs on it.

 

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I believe we eventually determined that the structure was 'most likely' representative of the internal structure of a fusilinid. This was taken with a cellphone clip-on. Definitely silicified as not easily scratched.

 

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46 minutes ago, Kato said:

@FossilNerd      Did this require a software install? If yes, which operating systems (Win 10)?  I've been using a cellphone lens adapter. The pics are decent but somewhat tedious using the various lenses.

 

Thank you, Kato

 

 

 

It can be used on a Mac, Windows, and even an Android Phone (NOT iOS). I installed this on a Windows 10 system. It doesn’t technically need any software when installed on Windows 10. It is “plug and play” and uses the generic web camera driver that is built in. According to the manufacturer, it can be used with the built in Windows Camera software as well. However, I did install the software that came with the scope for taking pictures and videos. There is a provided disc, but the software is also available to download for free. Drivers are also provided for other operating systems that may not have the correct one built in. 

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21 hours ago, Nimravis said:

Peltosaurus lower jaw section with 20 teeth fro the Oligocene Brule Formation of South Dakota.

Wow that’s beautiful. Thank you 

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21 hours ago, Kato said:

I found this fusulinid specimen in a Pennsylvanian formation locally. It had some odd orange blobs on it.

Thanks for adding this beautiful photographs and fossil to my thread. :wub: . I had to look up what a fusilinid was, thank you the too for edification. 

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Today offering is another plant specimen I got it in an old 1930s collection. Annularia from

Yorkshire.

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Some Pennsylvanian foliage from New Mexico. Shale bed formation near an igneous intrusion and high iron content.

 

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Cordaite with iron staining

 

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4 hours ago, Bobby Rico said:

Today offering is another plant specimen I got it in an old 1930s collection. Annularia from

Yorkshire.

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Enjoyed seeing these. I find lots of calamites pieces but zero annularia so far!

 

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Today I received some wonderful fossils from @Misha and thought I'd take a look at some of them through the microscope. First up are some pictures of jurassic ostracods.

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And the star of the lot was an exquisite shrimp from Lebanon. I hoped the shrimp would be as cool as the knightia under magnification but I think it's anatomy is just a little too indistinct to make for great photos. The best I could get was this shot of one particularly distinct section of its shell.

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25 minutes ago, Huntonia said:

devonian

These ostracods are Jurassic in age and the shrimp is carpopenaeus callirostris from the cretaceous

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4 minutes ago, Misha said:

These ostracods are Jurassic in age and the shrimp is carpopenaeus callirostris from the cretaceous

Whoops, my bad. Clearly I can't be trusted to remember things. :DOH:

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4 hours ago, Kato said:

Some Pennsylvanian foliage from New Mexico. Shale bed formation near an igneous intrusion and high iron content.

Wow beautiful images and really striking colour . Thanks so much for adding to my thread.

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56 minutes ago, Huntonia said:

the shrimp

Love the shrimp very nice gift and nice photos too.  :wub:

 

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2 hours ago, Bobby Rico said:

tuberculated interambulacral plates

I saw them in concert--great show! :P

 

Fossils can take on a whole other abstract beauty when viewed through magnification.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

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2 hours ago, digit said:

I saw them in concert--great show! :P

 

Fossils can take on a whole other abstract beauty when viewed through magnification.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

Yes I love prog rock too. :D
 

I think you hit the nail on the head there. That’s probably why I enjoy the photography, it fuels the creative part of my personality.

 

thank You 

 

Bobby

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I'm still trying to figure out this microscope, but here are a few more pictures I took with it.

 

I have a piece of petrified wood that has some nice detail. There is even, what I believe to be, a fossilized insect burrow.

 

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Zoomed in:

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A close up of fenestrate bryozoan lattice work. Notice the tiny dots that were home to the individual zooids.

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1 hour ago, FossilNerd said:

have a piece of petrified wood that has some nice detail. There is even, what I believe to be, a fossilized insect burrow.

 

Nice piece indeed. It looks like your getting the hang of your microscope . Keep up the good work.

 

cheers Bobby 

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@FossilNerd      I personally would enjoy a zoom pic of the possible insect damage in the orange area. I like to find possible bore holes in the specimens I collect

 

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3 hours ago, Kato said:

@FossilNerd      I personally would enjoy a zoom pic of the possible insect damage in the orange area. I like to find possible bore holes in the specimens I collect

 

 

Sure! Here is a close up.

 

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