Category: microscope

This stunning video captures all four seasons through microscopes and macro lenses

John Aldred

The team at Beauty of Science see the world a little differently to most of us. While we’re far too busy looking with our eyes, they’re seeing through microscopes and macro lenses. So many things happen on the small scale that we simply can’t see. Things we’d never even know about unless we went specifically looking for […]

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BLIPS turns your smartphone into a microscope and fits in your wallet

John Aldred

BLIPS is an ultra portable super slim pair of lenses for your smartphone.  One offers macro, letting you focus much closer than your phone’s standard lens will allow.  The other is a micro lens, allowing you to get even closer, for some big magnification. Mobile macro lenses are certainly nothing new, but this is the first […]

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This photographer uses photo stacking techniques and a microscope to show the iridescent beauty of peacock feathers

John Aldred

Iridescence is defined as the phenomenon of certain surfaces that appear to change colour as the angle of view or the angle of illumination changes, and that is highlighted especially well in these extreme close up images of these peacock feathers created by Canadian photographer Waldo Nell. Image stacking shots focused at different distances from a […]

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