
Higher resolution, focus-stacked image of catapa pollen grain. You can see a lot more detail.Ĭatalpa pollen grain taken with a higher resolution camera. The image below, however, was taken with a point-and-click, 6 megapixel camera down the eyepiece. The images above were taken with a Moticam 2 megapixel camera attached to the microscope to reduce misalignment. the quality of the camera matters a lot.
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The first was with the command-line programs in Hugin Tools, while the second was by hand using GIMP. I tried two methods for doing the image stacking. The images are of catalpa pollen grains at 400x magnification, stacked using Hugin Tools. Three images (image 1, image 2, and image 3) are stacked together to create a final, focus-stacked image that is in better focus (has a larger depth of field). In each image the microscope is focused slightly differently to bring a different level of the pollen grain into focus. Images 1, 2, and 3 in Figure 1 show a catalpa pollen grain under 400x magnification. The higher the magnification the less you’re able to focus on at a time. There’s a tradeoff involved when you try to focus on things under a microscope.
