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Here are a few more photos.

 

Noodler's Nikita with a trapped air bubble.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4142/5432232246_3e8d78c8b7_z.jpg

 

Private Reserve Sonic Blue. Particles were easily visible in this ink, even at low magnification.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5219/5431623213_0210a85312_z.jpg

 

Interface between Nikita and Sonic blue.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5137/5432232316_a013c60aa3_z.jpg

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Foxtail, no fair you have a REAL setup with high resolution. What powers were your Legal Lapis, Black Swan, and PR Sonic ? I'll post some I just did in next post.

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I put these as thumbnails so click if you want larger. These are taken with an "affordable" Celestron 44345 digital, but I swapped lenses from my high quality microscope. It is an easier & affordable way to get digital images and video. Most of what you need to recognize is between your ears anyway. In my next post, I'll put up 5 images of a fungal contaminated SITB DeAtramentis Carmine Red.

 

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h75/pike444/Inks/Microscopic/Micro-BSB1s.jpg

 

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h75/pike444/Inks/Microscopic/Micro-BSB2s.jpg

 

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h75/pike444/Inks/Microscopic/Micro-Napalms.jpg

 

 

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h75/pike444/Inks/Microscopic/Micro-Carterss.jpg

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My photos are about 400X. They were taken with my screening scope, a Zeiss Axiovert 200 with a consumer grade digital camera. No need to go to my big toy for these (Zeiss confocal).

 

I was amazed at the particulates in LL and Black Swan! And, although it didn't photograph very well, the fluorescence photo with the red dots on black is from Legal Lapis. It was absolutely full of fluorescent red particles, but they were moving and the fluorescence faded quickly, so hard to photograph.

 

Geoduc, I liked the two color shot!

 

Sam, from all I've heard about Baystate Blue, I'm surprised the photo is so...bland.

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My photos are about 400X. They were taken with my screening scope, a Zeiss Axiovert 200 with a consumer grade digital camera. No need to go to my big toy for these (Zeiss confocal).

 

Sam, from all I've heard about Baystate Blue, I'm surprised the photo is so...bland.

 

Cool on the 400x. I'll take a look at my own versions of those same inks.

 

With the BSB, you would need a scanning electron microscope to pick up the Replicator pieces.

 

Anyway, here is a sample of the many DeAtramentis contaminated bottles in different light and magnifications of Carmine Red.

 

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h75/pike444/Inks/Microscopic/Micro-DeAramentist-Carmine1s.jpg

 

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h75/pike444/Inks/Microscopic/Micro-DeAramentist-Carmine2s.jpg

 

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h75/pike444/Inks/Microscopic/Micro-DeAramentist-Carmine3s.jpg

 

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h75/pike444/Inks/Microscopic/Micro-DeAramentist-Carmine4s.jpg

 

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h75/pike444/Inks/Microscopic/Micro-DeAramentist-Carmine5s.jpg

 

 

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Since PR Sonic Blue is a dye based ink, those particulates are disconcerting. I wonder if it is early-onset SITB; From what I've read, PR is known to be prone to it.

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Wow, you can really see the fungicidal spores...

Thank you Sam, I really wanted to see this (morbid fascination, I know ;) )

 

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Since PR Sonic Blue is a dye based ink, those particulates are disconcerting. I wonder if it is early-onset SITB; From what I've read, PR is known to be prone to it.

I don't think so, a) no spores to see and b ) no colonisation, more splatter ;)...

Anyway, dye based doesn't mean, that the ink will not have particles, does it? If the used dye has particles, the ink will, too.

 

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Foxtail, that was a very interesting finding, and I confirmed it in both inks. This Celestron scope does not have great resolution, but it does make capturing images/video pretty easy. I took these video clips of Legal Lapis at 400x & 1000x (oil immersion lens) and also Black Swan. You can see the "brownian motion" and my moving the slide and focussing in and out. I suppose this doesn't initially bode well for inks that look like this, but an awful lot of people have used Legal Lapis over the years without any problems, so I don't think you can draw any conclusions from these images with regards to ink safety. I'll get a couple still shots in next post.

 

 

 

 

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Wonder how these inks would show up when using a polarized filter... :D

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Here are the images for Legal Lapis

 

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h75/pike444/Inks/Microscopic/Legal-Lapis-400xs.jpg

 

 

 

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h75/pike444/Inks/Microscopic/Legal-Lapis-1000xs.jpg

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Since PR Sonic Blue is a dye based ink, those particulates are disconcerting. I wonder if it is early-onset SITB; From what I've read, PR is known to be prone to it.

 

I was surprised to see the particles as well, but I didn't see any sign that they were fungal. They were fairly consistent in size and evenly dispersed throughout the sample. No indication of any spores, hyphae, growth, etc.

 

SamCapote - if you have Sonic Blue, will you take a look at a sample and see if it looks the same? My photo was taken at 400x, and the two color image with Nikita and Sonic Blue was taken at 100x.

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And the four Black Swan with some filters. LOL! Watch_Art....yeah, this is Uber Geekdom at it's finest!

 

 

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h75/pike444/Inks/Microscopic/Black-Swan-100xs.jpg

 

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h75/pike444/Inks/Microscopic/Black-Swan-400xs.jpg

 

 

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h75/pike444/Inks/Microscopic/Black-Swan-400x-sepias.jpg

 

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h75/pike444/Inks/Microscopic/Black-Swan-1000x-blues.jpg

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Since PR Sonic Blue is a dye based ink, those particulates are disconcerting. I wonder if it is early-onset SITB; From what I've read, PR is known to be prone to it.

 

I was surprised to see the particles as well, but I didn't see any sign that they were fungal. They were fairly consistent in size and evenly dispersed throughout the sample. No indication of any spores, hyphae, growth, etc.

 

SamCapote - if you have Sonic Blue, will you take a look at a sample and see if it looks the same? My photo was taken at 400x, and the two color image with Nikita and Sonic Blue was taken at 100x.

 

I did and it does look the same.

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Foxtail, that was a very interesting finding, and I confirmed it in both inks. This Celestron scope does not have great resolution, but it does make capturing images/video pretty easy. I took these video clips of Legal Lapis at 400x & 1000x (oil immersion lens) and also Black Swan. You can see the "brownian motion" and my moving the slide and focussing in and out. I suppose this doesn't initially bode well for inks that look like this, but an awful lot of people have used Legal Lapis over the years without any problems, so I don't think you can draw any conclusions from these images with regards to ink safety. I'll get a couple still shots in next post.

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, Sam, that's exactly what I saw, but the scope I used doesn't have video capacity.

 

Now, image that you're looking at Legal Lapis using light in the green wavelengths. What you would see is a fraction of those particulates (of varying sizes) fluorescing vivid red!

Kristi

 

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This is fascinating in a bizarre way. In some ways, this doesn't show us much; while at the same time, it shows a lot. I don't think I'll look at ink the same way ever again!! Thanks, you guys! :thumbup:

 

As per Foxtail's call for requests, I'd love to see Sailor Red-Brown, or Sailor Blue if you don't have Red-Brown. And Diamine Majestic Blue would be interesting — a blue ink that takes on a red sheen when dry. Do any of you geeks have these inks?

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