Crystalluria

Re: Crystalluria

Alex Allen — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:38:52 GMT

usually place phone camera right up against eyepiece and use the screen to see if image ok. May need to change settings on phone camera to something like "macro" to enable a shorter focal length.

Re: Crystalluria

Tom Ward — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:17:46 GMT

I did try that, but all I got was a very small yellow circle and no actual image really - would you place the lens directly on the microscope with/without the microscope eyepiece?

Re: Crystalluria

Alex Allen — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:15:03 GMT

Or if no camera in the practice mobile phone cameras work very well and quick to email / transfer via bluetooth etc

Re: Crystalluria

katie mountford — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:27:40 GMT

no idea about the crystal but a normal digital camera will photograph down a microscope-just aim down one of the eye pieces, it works very well!

Re: Crystalluria

Martin Atkinson — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:12:38 GMT

Was it Canadian?, looks like a Maple leaf to me.

Re: Crystalluria

Tom Ward — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:49:49 GMT

Yep, sat on the slide overnight - must be a beautiful but artefactual sight. Thanks for your help!

Re: Crystalluria

Braden Collins — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:26:40 GMT

Had the urine been sitting on the slide for the night before being looked at? if so I would be reluctant to make much of this as it may be an artifact from that.

Re: Crystalluria

Alex Allen — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:13:41 GMT

Used to see these "bow-tie" crystals in urine that had stood around for some time. Resample and re-examine in case. As mentioned above - try without any stains as I have seen some wonderful artefacts from old crystalised stains!!

It think they form in concentrated normal urine so be careful how they are interpreted. Not on any drugs??

Re: Crystalluria

Richard Carter — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:33:12 GMT

Stain deposit crystals?