[meteorite-list] First attempt at photographing thin sections

[Starsinthedirt at aol.com]

Absolutely wonderful!  Every one should  take a look.  Very well done!

Now that you have jumped on this train  you are in for quite a ride.  Given 
your photography skills, you will soon  be amazing us all.

My tip.  Now that you have seen what can be done,  loose the plastic 
polarizing film.  Buy cheap glass camera polarizes or  sacrifice a couple you 
already have lying around.  Cut them to size with  your rock saw (Any diamond 
blade, water cooled tile saw will do).  You will  enjoy your time spent much 
more.

Tom 

In a message dated 10/5/2010  4:01:59 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time, 
damoclid at yahoo.com writes:
I had some  free time tonight so I cut a few pieces of some plastic 
polarizing filter I had  and used them on our biological microscope. I had picked 
up a few low priced  thin sections at this past year's Tucson shows. For a 
first ever attempt at  photographing thin sections in cross polarized light, I 
think I've done an ok.  job.

I've uploaded my first 5 to an album on Facebook. Below is a link  that 
should be accessible even if you don't have a FB  account.

http://tinyurl.com/27uj6tk

I haven't yet calibrated my  field of view yet, so at the moment I can't 
offer the scale of the features in  the images. Sorry.

I'd appreciate any tips or advice the experts are  willing offer to help 
make future images  better.

Thanks

--
Richard Kowalski
Full Moon  Photography
IMCA #1081



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