It says the same thing but more pleasant to look at than...

Thanks for the kind words everyone.

The drive is the entrance to a local estate. 'The Big House', which is behind the camera, was built in 1904 and I assume that the Beech trees are of a similar age.
As nothing is forever, a few years ago the owner planted young trees parallel to the existing ones. You can see two or three to the left of the picture ready to take over when the others reach the end of their natural lives.
Unfortunately if, as seems likely, the Government goes ahead with the building of a new high speed rail link from London to Birmingham (HS2), then those at the end of the drive furthest from the camera, will be flattened and a huge concrete viaduct will be built there.

Well, that's something to look forward to.:rolleyes:

That was a very ice pic, Carruthers.

Wish I'd taken it.

Because, then, I'd have been there, instead of having been here.

A friend got a USB "microscope" camera for Christmas, but couldn't use it because it's not compatible with Macs (contrary to the specifications listed on Amazon.) So he "returned" it to Amazon, who refunded his money and told him to keep it rather than ship it back. So he gave it to me.

It's kind of neat. It a lot like those Magic Eye cameras that you could connect to the tv. It has a macro lens and a ring of LED lights to illuminate the subject. It's not really a microscope but does take impressive macro shots.

Here's a detail of the border of a five dollar bill. I never knew those little lines were actually printing.
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And here's a $20 bill.

I also took a before and after shot of my whiskers before shaving, but I won't subject you to that.

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MOAR

Hey, the five has barbed wire loops. :haha:

here are rolled oats
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steel cut oats
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and oat bran (hot cereal)
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And white rice
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Here's a kind of hook and loop strap for tomato plants
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a dirty eraser
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a ginsu style serrated knife
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And the strike surface of a matchbox
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The fabric of my pants.
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My eight o'clock shadow
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100 grit aluminum oxide sand paper
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A pencil tip
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Very cool

That is way bitchen.

Keep them coming!

It's a fun toy, but it's more difficult than you would expect to find interesting stuff to look at. Most stuff is boring under magnification. And the thing is attached to the computer with a 2-3 foot cord, so it's not something you would want to carry around into the outdoors, even with a laptop. So I keep looking for small items I can carry to it, and hope they look fascinating. Most don't. But I'll post anything that looks cool. I bet fresh veggies would be good, but our kitchen is kinda empty right now.

Also, the shutter button is on the side of the microscope, and when you press it, the whole thing vibrates a little, making stuff more blurry. I'm going to try doing a screen grab next. What keystroke combination does a screen shot of the active window? ctrl-Prnt Screen? Something like that, I think. That would eliminated the movement from the shutter button.

I had one of those I traded a cheap Soviet microscope for. I agree with all of your comments about the difficulty of non-portability, short cord and that damn shutter button. Also it's a short depth of field so finding cool shit to scope is work.

Oh, and the plastic toy appearance limits bragging rights to the resulting pictures, rather than the scope. ;)