Nice SEMs

It does help a lot with spacial imagery to know the magnification. I can't tell the actual size of what I am looking at but I can get prospective. If you magnify your thumb 1600 X's you can see finer details so it is the amount of detail with relation to normal viewing that knowing the magnification level helps intuitively understand.

Hey, I still prefer an analog clock because I can see how late I am :roll: because it displays a picture of an hour's worth of time and the relationship of the current time and when I was supposed to be somewhere. :old:
 
cuttlegirl;136281 said:
Yeah, it is hard to stop breathing while mounting specimens for SEM...

Yeah... don't breathe, don't sneeze (almost as difficult for me as not breathing for most people :roll:), don't drop it onto the sticky surface upside down, don't squeeze too hard otherwise you get tweezer-marks, don't let your hands shake... actually it's a wonder I got any of these pics at all. :roll:

Here are some more. These are tentacle clubs of paralarval onychoteuthids. Sorry that some have mags on them and some don't - I usually don't include them in the legend because journals don't want them, due to image resizing changing the mag. Scale bars are much preferred even if they make visualization a little harder for some.
 

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And here are some 'how it works' photos, kind of.

1 - a normal adult arm sucker in Onychoteuthis
2 - a tentacular sucker in the middle of developing into a hook, in paralarval Onychoteuthis
3 - the 'back' (interior/aboral side) of an exposed paralarval tentacular sucker ring - the smooth rounded part in the foreground would normally be set into the sucker musculature
4 - a tentacular sucker in the middle of developing into a hook, in paralarval Onykia
 

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I think you have the perfect collection for the horror movie industry. No need to make stuff up, just enlarge life. Magnified this way I had to go back and check that you DID say paralarval about those wicked looking hooks :biggrin2:

I don't know why, but the suckers facinate me the most.
 

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