SEM Zoom edit
An impressive demonstration of a central tool in modern microscopy.
- Articles this image appears in
- scanning electron microscope
- Creator
- Richard Wheeler (Zephyris)
- Comments
- Note that there are some technical issues with this video, does anyone think they are serious issues?
- This was generated from a series of 10 images at different magnifications which do not stitch perfectly together because of sample drift etc.
- Some parts of the sample jumped during scanning giving some cut off beads (one of these is visible in the default video thumbnail).
- I would have to support this just because it's super way up my ally, I love SEM's. Hope to get access to another again someday. ;-) I don't think the flaws are distracting enough to warrant opposes on them, imho. The 720p size is wonderful as well, although I would suggest making and uploading a 480p and maybe a smaller version as well for linking in articles. 17 megs for 18 seconds of video is probably beyond what some of our low-bandwidth/dial-up readers would want to view. Look at the size options provided for the recently promoted NASA video. Only things that if someone is super picky about is that the article talks about SEM's going as far as 500,000x and this stops at 12,000x, also the choice of subject of calibration beads is not as visually interesting as say an insect or something else. Other then that it's a wonderful concept and I think of great value. I'd support it for a FP. — raekyT 03:10, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks for your comments! The article's 500000x magnification refers to tha instruments maximum, practically for a sputter coated biological sample you will see no more useful information at magnifications above ~20000x... I should probably add that to the SEM article. I hope I do get a chance to capture a more interesting subject in a similar way at some point :) - Zephyris Talk 07:35, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
- Could you get hold of some pollen grains? Zooming in on something like this would be more interesting than glass beads. Palynology doesn't seem to be a particularly active area, but somebody in Oxford might be able to help. Smartse (talk) 21:48, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks for your comments! The article's 500000x magnification refers to tha instruments maximum, practically for a sputter coated biological sample you will see no more useful information at magnifications above ~20000x... I should probably add that to the SEM article. I hope I do get a chance to capture a more interesting subject in a similar way at some point :) - Zephyris Talk 07:35, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
- In my opinion the technical deficiencies detract from this video. There is no scale bar in any of the images, the zoom frame starts with half specimen/half tape, even the edge of the tape is showing in the lower right, there is obvious charging streaking the image at the higher mags, the particles are poorly dispersed on the tape. There are some great SEM images on wikipedia, but there are also some of very poor technical quality that have been promoted to featured images. Featured images requires good technical quality at the least, this should hold for micrographs as well as photographs. --KMLP (talk) 23:59, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
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