Last photos with the old setup...

Christian, who sold me my microscope, has come up with an improved camera adapter for me. He cobbled together an afocal system using a Leitz lens, some ABS tubing and various other handmade parts and materials. And it does work better than what I had before! So I'll post some of the images I've taken using my old setup before starting with the new. I'll also include a video taken with my Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS4. First the video. A clip showing an amoeba moving along with nice detail of the particulate matter oozing into the advancing pseudopoda. That rod issuing from it's rear end is likely a cyanobacteria that it had previously decided to ingest.

I found a couple of samples of pediastrum, a genus of algae, in one of my samples. This photo was taken using phase contrast.

This image was taken with brightfield illumination.

Another type, again using phase contrast lighting.

 I think this is a diatom frustrule.

No idea what this is. Possibly a member of the Genus monoraphidium.

Similar to the above image, same amount of information about it.

 A species of Phacus, different than some of the beautiful ones I referred to in an earlier post. This version is more of a disc shape than the other one reported.

Another shot of the Phacus with a bit of detail of the flagella at it's front.

Is this one of the heliozoans?