[sjastro]

Another microscope image with a difference.

I decided to try my hand at cross polarization imaging.
Cross polarizing microscopes cost a few thousand dollars but the technology is ridiculously simple and only cost $40 to convert my stereo microscope into a cross polarizing microscope.

The cross polarizing unit was nothing more than clear glass filter taken from my ST-7XME and threaded to a Lumicon polarizing filter on both sides. One of the polarizing filters was rotated until most of the light reaching the camera was cut out. The sample itself sat inside the unit on the clear glass filter.

The left hand image was taken with normal light, the right hand cross polarized light. Each is five images stacked for maximum field depth.

Regards

Steven