Found a bunch of vorticella in this freshwater sample and got to watch them do their thing for a while. Very interesting.
Microscope is Swift SW380T w/ Sony a6400. Magnifications are 10, 20 and 40x zoomed and cropped from a 4k feed. Mix of brightfield and darkfield.
Still very new to this and appreciate any tips or feedback.
>The Framingham Police Department has decided not to renew its contract with Flock Safety, ending the city’s use of the company’s automated license plate reader camera system after months of public debate and resident advocacy.
>The city’s access to the Flock system will be shut off June 30, when the current contract expires, and the cameras will be decommissioned, Framingham Police Department Administrative Lt. Rachel Mickens said in a statement to Boston.com Wednesday.
>“We will continue to balance technology and public safety needs with transparency, accountability, and the privacy concerns of the community,” Mickens wrote.
>The decision marks a significant victory for residents who spent months urging city officials to abandon the surveillance technology, arguing that it threatens privacy and civil liberties while lacking sufficient oversight, according to Kate Merritt-O’Toole, a member of Framingham Fights Back. The group is a community organization that describes itself as a place for Framingham residents to “organize and mobilize to protect democracy and our neighbors.”
>“We’ll take our wins where we can get them,” she said. “We’re happy that we’re going to have some more time to educate [officials] on how the technology is evolving and what a lot of these vendors are planning to do with this data.”
Week or so old news, but just found out about this and didn't see it shared here. Fantastic news.
Very cute and don't think I've seen them before.
Microscope is SW380T with a Sony a6400 with a 20x objective and a zoom/crop from a 4k feed with a home made darkfield filter.
Sample is some plant material and water from a jar full of pond stuff from a freshwater pond in Massachusetts, USA.
So cute.
Hi, still very new to all of this, but I recently got this SW380T and have bought just a regular lens-less adapter and have been able to take some pretty nice videos so far with a Sony a6400 I have attached to the trinocular port connected directly to my PC.
The issue is that it's an APS-C sensor on the camera so the image doesn't fill the whole sensor, which is fine enough; I can crop in from a 4k image to get a non vignetted image.
But I bought a 2x adapter, specifically this one from eBay and when connected I am now losing parfocality (is that a word?) between objectives, meaning focus is not the same between them as demonstrated in the posted video and I'm losing a TON of light even with the bulb turned all the way and the aperture open.
Am I doing something wrong or is this a complete dud of an adapter? I can still return it and eat the shipping cost.
Another question I have is there a way to achieve higher magnifications than the base objective ones with the camera attached to the trinocular or am I currently sort of stuck with 4x, 10x, 20x (bought this one), 40x and the 100x oil immersion plus whatever magnification I'm getting from zooming in from a 4k image?
Sorry if these are all dumb questions. Sample is some pollen on a piece of tape on a slide.
I think a 12foot onewind hammock/net combo with an eno rainfly.
It's like 95F+ degrees out there today and gonna be 100F+. I miss this type of weather.
Somewhere in the metrowest last week when it was cool and rainy.
Been flying drones for years now, mostly camera drones and recently got an Avata 2. "Soft" crashed it without breaking it a couple times and decided to revive some of my old analog FPV stuff that I dabbled in a couple years ago and got an Air75 that I can crash without worrying about expensive repairs too much.
So much fun. So much suck.
Honestly, it's pretty cool to see how better this tech has gotten compared to even just like 3-4 years ago in terms of a reliable tx and vx connection. Just a much more pleasant experience even if I did have to buy a new ELRS module for the controller I already had.
Anybody else get either just get into FPV or come back after a hiatus?
Still very new at this, can use some tips if you have them.
Cut out some clear plastic container to filter size to match the blue one that came with the microscope and cut different diameters of black construction paper and taped them to the middle of the plastic. Still experimenting with the diameters as none of the filters I made work with all 4 objectives.
Microscope is Swift SW380T with a Sony a6400 shot at 4k cropped and scaled. Objectives are 4x, 10x, 20x and 40x. 40x doesn't work too well with the filters I made, will keep experimenting with the diameter of the paper.
Sample is some kind of moss I gathered from the woods in Massachusetts with some fresh water.
Song is Bayad by Arga Bileg.
Swift SW380T with a6700 at 4x, 10x and 40x magnification zoomed and cropped from 4k footage. Sensor's dirty, I got a cleaning kit on the way.
Still gotta figure out a way to connect the DLSR to the 10x and 25x eyepieces for more magnification.
Tips and identifications are appreciated but not required, I'm new to all of this and don't know what I'm doing.
Swift SW380T with a6700 at 4x, 10x and 40x magnification zoomed and cropped from 4k footage. Sensor's dirty, I got a cleaning kit on the way.
>The victim said she'd never met the person stalking her, but that they repeatedly messaged her saying, "I need you to love me and let me love you," prosecutors said. The stalker also obtained her personal phone number, her parents' phone numbers, her home address and the location of her school, she told officers.
>Screenshots shared with Boston police showed the stalker sending the victim messages such as "I told you to love me … now you're going to have to watch your back every time," prosecutors said. The stalker also sent the victim's parents messages such as "Hey tell your daughter. Her last days are coming for her…if she doesn't love me or I'll find her."
>At one point, the stalker created a social profile impersonating the victim to gather personal information about her from a friend, prosecutors said. The victim said she'd blocked more than 700 TikTok accounts and more than 200 Instagram accounts used by the stalker, but that the harassment was ongoing.
Swift 380T with a Sony a6700 through an adapter and a 0.5 photo tube. Magnifications are 4x, 10x and 40x zoomed and cropped from a 4k video to 1080.
Sample was a piece of packing tape I stuck to my well pollinated car on a glass slide in Massachusetts a couple weeks back, so lots of air bubbles.
Camera sensor and possibly the photo tube lens are dirty, tried blowing air on them with a tool and using the camera's sensor clean function, but I think the sensor's just borked.
Any tips appreciated, still very new to this. Thank you.
This is the stuff that's been making people miserable the last month or so. Spider creature looking things are plant trichomes.
Still figuring out the controls and this camera sensor's dirty. Swift SW380T with a6700 at 4x, 10x and 40x magnification cropped from 4k footage.
Neat!
>BOSTON — Yarmouth and Barnstable police officers positioned themselves outside the residence of a suspected drug dealer, closely observing the comings and goings.
>But as they watched the property, officers witnessed something unexpected: an off-duty Brewster Police Department officer entered the residence.
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>It was a Friday in January 2021 in Yarmouth, a suburban Cape Cod town 20 minutes away from Brewster. Three days later, the officers served a search warrant and spoke with the resident, who said that the man, Officer Troy Henderson, was a “client” of hers but was not there to buy drugs, according to disciplinary records.
>Instead, she said he visited her for a massage and sex, which he paid for. Henderson was never charged with a crime, and resigned from Brewster police after the chief recommended he be fired.
>A beloved community resource dog in Walpole, Massachusetts has died after a "tragic accident" Tuesday at the town's police station, the police chief said.
>The dog, Rebel, was accidentally hit by a cruiser driven by an officer in the parking lot of the station on Tuesday, Walpole Police Chief Richard Kelleher told WBZ-TV.
>Kelleher said it was a low-speed incident and "there's no wrong doing on anyone's part. It was just an accident and a very unfortunate one."
>Rebel the golden retriever spent eight years with Walpole police as an emotional support dog who visited schools and responded to traumatic incidents.
music just happened to be playing in the air idk
>As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, Massachusetts' central role in sparking the American Revolution is being highlighted, from the first musket shots to the Boston Tea Party.
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>In Lexington, the revolution began with the first musket volleys. In Concord, the "shot heard round the world" followed, and months later, patriots and British troops clashed in Charlestown during the first major battle of the war.
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>"The battle fought here was very much like a European-style set-piece battle," said Patrick Boyce, of the National Park Service.
>A state watchdog report released Monday describes spending across Massachusetts’ 14 sheriffs’ offices as “chaotic,” citing deficits, lost revenue, and instances of illegal overspending.
>The Office of the Inspector General’s report found the departments collectively facing a historic $110 million deficit at the end of fiscal year 2025. The report was mandated by state lawmakers amid concerns about how the offices manage public funds.
>According to the OIG, investigators identified multiple financial management issues across the sheriffs’ departments, including the use of accounts outside standard state oversight.
Avata 2. You do not need an ND filter in these lighting conditions, it's too dark.
No laws were broken, the deer wasn't harassed, it's fine.
Beans.