Welcome to Etaluma's first wiki. This site is for sharing facts and results from our first microscope, the LumaScope (see a video demo of the scope here). We invite all users to use this site to share pictures, protocols, comments, etc. with the greater LumaScope community. Please Add a New Page (link on the left) and include your objective, color, type of illumination and other relevant parameters.

Thank you!!

For the latest information on the Lumascope or to purchase one, please visit www.etaluma.com.

Image collections

• First images of GFP at 40x
• Human pathology slides (H&E stain)
• Dermatology applications (and image analysis)
  
• FluoCell slides
  
• Microscopes.com Human Tissue slides -- this is a collection of 15 different tissues
• Microscopes.com 5 kingdom slides -- there are some beautiful specimens in this collection of 50 slides.
  
• C. elegans GFP and RNAi (Knox College)
• LumaScope as a field microscope
• LumaScope in Central America
  

User comments:

• "At first I was concerned about just having one color and objective. But its like driving an automatic transmission car after learning on a stick shift, you think -- how can a car have just one or 2 gears, that can't be enough. Then you realize you can actually drive in traffic and eat a sandwich at the same time ... the simplicity of LumaScope is really liberating, especially if you're not comfortable with the myriad of adjustments on conventional microscopes."
• "the students, found the lumascope very easy to use. These images were taken by the students with very little practice and not a lot of coaching. The controls were intuitive and easy to use, and we were impressed by the image quality. Even a single instrument was sufficient to allow 5 lab groups to take multiple high quality images over the course of about an hour and a half. (Again, on the 1st time using the lumascope.) "
  

FAQs

• Does Lumascope work on a Mac?

• Fluorophore and filter data
• Magnification and sample images with various LumaScope standard objectives.
  

Please add additional topics and pages.