MSD 100 Microsope Camera on Yahoo microsope Groups

From the Yahoo Microscope group:


Discussions on the Kodak MDS 100 Camera
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Edited by Gordon Couger Feb 2, 2009

This is what can be done using the advanced search in the Yahoo Microscope group by putting MSD 100 -Re: on the subject line of the advanced search and cutting and pasting the results from Cameo web browser and saving on an iMac then loading it with any browser and pasting the HTML source with considerable editing into Google's Blogger.

By using Google's Booger one gets stable URL that can be used for reference and is also a requiting tool for the group it is open to search engines as Notes on Light Microscopy is.

Links Kodak's MDS 100 discussions on the Yahoo Microscope group:
Keep scrolling its a long way down.

49398			Jan 31, 2009 3:18 pm
24698	Kodak MDS 100 Well it might be time to toss this one anyways but.. I have been using an old MDS 100 cam system to let the kids capture their images. Recently the classroom computers were reimaged. I had kept win 98 on one dedicated for this project. I cannot get the	downingmel	May 12, 2005 10:23 pm
20819	Kodak MDS-100 Imaging System Hi: I would like to know if anyone has example images made using the Kodak MDS-100 Microscopic Imaging System. Currently my research requires documenting the retrieval of microscopic fossiled biological samples from insects embedded in Amber. I am trying ...	lpreyna lp	Nov 13, 2004 12:04 am
11863	Kodak MDS-100 for sale Should you ever be "too sick" of the MDS 100, and sell it not too expensively, I would be interestd. I have a like-new Kodak MDS-100 that I will sell for USA $100, plus the cost of shipping. It is located in Canada, but I'll ship it anywhere. Photo here ..	Rasputin Novgorod priapulus	Dec 9, 2003 5:56 pm
10387	mds 100 images I am starting a project to mount a Kodak MDS 100 camera on a customized Olympus MF trinocular microscope, and would really appreciate contact with current users of this particular camera. I followed Frez's great technical info and it seems that he had some ...	scitech200	Oct 25, 2003 12:30 pm
9854	MDS 100 and fluorescence Hi Frez, discarding the lens from the adapter was not able to have better photos in fluorescence: there are too strong red dominants and the CCD seems to become less sensitive in resolution. I think that this is related to a strong IR presence, normally ...	julius3 darkfield2001it	Oct 3, 2003 3:08 am
8440	Thanks to Frez-MDS100 Hello to All, I read in the archives that Frez removed the lense from the MDS100 coupler and mounted this"striped-down"coupler to the eyepiece. I tried it and was able to get good images for the first time with the MDS100. Is there a "rule of thumb" for ...		Jul 6, 2003 2:42 pm
8116	MDS 100 Wow...there's an MDS100 on LabX (www.labx.com) current bid $300.00..what am I missing here? Jay	Jay jaystanley js88keyz	Jun 11, 2003 8:51 pm
5058	Kodak MDS100 Can anyone provide any light on what the sensitivity of the Kodak MDS100 camera is? And can it really NOT be used with Windows 2000? I.e., has anyone been able to use it with W2k? Thank you very much, William	William Boyer wslboyer	Jan 12, 2003 6:25 pm

4247	Diatom pics & new life for MDS100 There are some pics of the cleaned diatoms purchased from Bill Dailey in my briefcase in the "Dunkirk fossil diatoms" folder. http://briefcase.yahoo.com/frfez They can't compare to the live view as one focuses through the specimen. Viewing 20,000,000 year ...	Frez frfez	Nov 19, 2002 10:57 pm
3749	MDS 100 In a message dated Thu, 29 Aug 2002 2:41:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, Microscope@yahoogroups.com writes: always fiddling with it. The MDS100 allows images to be taken at about 3 second intervals and puts them on screen for immediate inspection. This way ...	microshaw	Aug 29, 2002 7:08 pm
2950	Kodak MDS100 Install Hi, I'm trying to install my Kodak MDS100 and am having problems. It's asking me for a bunch of files (some are drivers, some are .ax files, some are .inf). It asks me for my Win98SE disk, but unfortunately Compaq didn't deem it necessary that I get such a ...	mvmartin86	Jun 19, 2002 7:31 pm
2572	MDS100 & Ortho settings These settings work well with my Series 4 on the Ortho Illuminator. The Series 4 has a constant split to the trinoc tube and passes through a beam splitter. This reduces the intensity of the light reaching the camera. With a flip mirror system the ...	Frez	May 20, 2002 3:10 pm
1512	Need help with a MDS 100 and Windows XP I installed Windows XP on a computer with a MDS100 I was able to install the software by using " compatibility mode " but the driver will not work. Kodak tech support informs me that there are no Windows XP drivers available. How may I use a MDS100 with ...	waynemanly	Feb 20, 2002 1:30 am
1427	MDS100 w/telescope + filter - In Microscope@y..., "Jay Stanley" <jstanley@m...> wrote: Frez, Do ya think an IR filter laid on top on the light source, of the scope would work? I'd like to purchase one for my telescope for future CCD imaging, it would be nice if it could serve dual ...	frfez	Feb 6, 2002 5:42 pm
1415	IR Filter for KODAK MDS100 From: Anthony R. Borrelli I have received a number of off-line requests for information on the IR Filter for use with the KODAK MDS100. In the US, the IR Filter can be purchased directly from KODAK Scientific Imaging Systems at 1 877 SIS-HELP express code ...	anthony.borrelli@.......	Feb 4, 2002 1:39 pm
1221	Kodak MDS 100 camera problems Has anyone got good images using this camera? I have just purchased a Kodak MDS 100 on the basis that it was just $95 normally $499 and it had a pretty good write up, but have found it to be useless. Using the supplied lens without the microscope, images ...	lloydgeeuk	Dec 19, 2001 12:43 pm
1183	MDS100 To answer my own question.... The Kodak MDS100 works with almost any twain compatible software. I have tried four packages so far. One freeware two shareware and the software from a Kodak DVC323. it all worked on my WIN2000 system. Maybe i have been lucky ...	miker_54491	Dec 14, 2001 6:28 pm
1138	mds100 Is there any software avalible that will let me use the mds100 with NT2000?	miker_54491	Dec 5, 2001 5:33 pm

727	KODAK MDS100 From: Anthony R. Borrelli Hi John, The KODAK MDS100 is neither discontinued nor liquidated. Although not appropriate for flourescence or true research applications, the MDS100, priced at $495, is an easy to use, low cost solution for digital imaging for ...	anthony.borrelli@.......	Jul 31, 2001 1:07 pm
724	Kodak MDS-100s on eBay? The Kodak MDS-100 microscope camera system has been showing up on eBay lately... is it discontinued and being liquidated? They normally sold for $500-1000, but it looks like these will go for considerably less... see the search link below. - John http ...

Microscope Documentation

This is a sample of Documentation from Science-info.net The AO Spencer Blue Book a complete treaties on microscopy, the AO Spencer's Ortho Illuminator, Gray's Handbook the covers it as well,

An extenxive collection of Reichert , Zeiss, Leitz and other literature  

Making Thin Sections by Hand

Making Thin Sections by Hand

These links explain how to make thin sections of rocks and soil. Depending on how hard the rock is and the tools you have it make not take to long or i make take a long time. -gc

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/fossil/thnsect.html

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/fossil/thin-sect.html

Richard E. Hill Lunar and Planetary Lab The University of Arizona in Tucson,
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/dino/dino.html

Peter Hobel's work in UV with

Peter Hobel in Germany is doing cutting edge work with a USB web cam, [in German] Pelter cooler for cooling the UV LED .

If one wants to see how good they are comparing their work to that of  Peter Hobel is doing with Amphipleura pellucida is a humbling experience for most of us.  To see Peter's work on the Yahoo microscope group Photographs of Amphipleura  pellucida and his equipment and the tread starting with Message 3116 & Message 3116 on Keith Shaw's Microscope Group Archive.

He is also has discussions in Microscopehobby Message 3250 and Message 3116.

IBM Microscope With 100 Million Times Finer than Best MRI

IBM Research Creates Microscope With 100 Million Times Finer Resolution Than Current MRI

Quoting the the release, "The technique was applied to a sample of tobacco mosaic virus and achieved resolution down to four nanometers. (One nanometer is one billionth of a meter; a tobacco mosaic virus is 18 nanometers across.)"

We may not be able to visually see too far beyond the limits imposed by the wavelength of visible light but computers and thing they drive are opening up a smaller and smaller world that may only be limited by quantum uncertainty in the end. If they break that barrier I have to get a new physics book and lot more.[gc]

In "Machine Vision: a Subset of Systems Engineering" by  Bruce.Batchelor

Bruce  points out that Calcite prisms extend the ability to do polarized light work form 190 nm to 2,500 nm compared to the Polaroid film filters that just barely covering the visible light spectrum. 

From Stevensville to Antarctica

The Herald-Palladium WILLIAM F. AST III,January 18, 2009  Deborah Steinberg & 4 assistants including Miram Gleiber of Stevensville of William and Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science are in Antarctica for a 6 week tour aboard the Laurence M. Gould built for year round duty in Arctic waters. The will be pulling nets and collection samples of krill and plankton to try to add to the the record to quantify for the change in the Antarctic the change in those creatures in those waters in the last 50 years that records have been kept.

With all the legislation new and contunuing funds, added research and regulation over climate  change no matter your point of view the current  mind set  is going to make a great deal of money available to do a lot of these studies and projects some good some bad. Lets all try to make the good the good out number the bad and not just use it as an opportunity to burn more tax money.-gc