infocus #71 September 2023 Light Under the Microscope

DOI: 10.22443/rms.inf.1.257

I selected various different lights - halogen, torch, house lamp - and by shining them through different types of clear, plastic prisms (one for each photo), directed them on to the specimen stage of my microscope. I then used a variety of techniques - fluorescence, polarisation, brightfield and darkfield (sometimes in isolation, sometimes combined) - to photograph the results.