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Glad you enjoyed the video! Saguaro in Oro Valley--perfect place. They will grow well :) About 4 months ago, I moved 5 of my seedlings to the front yard. They seem to be doing fine though I probably should give them more water until they get established.

Thanks so much for the nice comment. I agree that nature is amazing!

Thank you for such nice comments! I truly hope you have success! I'll bet a few more will pop up!

Thanks! Good idea to play it at the gardens. They use a poster with a few of the images. A calendar is a great idea that I hadn't thought of. This project became a bit of an obsession. I hate to think how much time I have into it.

It's a manual lens without electronic contacts. You just need to tell the camera it's OK to use the lens. You will be responsible for focusing and setting the aperture. There is a menu item which allows the camera to ignore electronic input from the lens. When you use it as in my video, you set the focus to infinity and take the video after telling the camera it's OK to use a manual lens.

@@weekenddistractions how do I tell the camera its ok to use the manual lens?

@@kepler180 There is a menu item to do it. You may have to google it. I have to do it on every camera I attach to a microscope. I don't recall what it is called on the a6000. You'll have to goggle it.

@@weekenddistractions i figured it out. thank you so much

Thanks! It's fun taking these kinds of pics. I'll be interested to see how you look into this turns out.

What is an efm mount? The lens is set for Emount and the filter rings bring it to the Leitz eyepiece threads. Not sure what you are saying.

@@weekenddistractions i made a video that shows what im talking about ruclips.net/video/snDc1cM6-7M/видео.htmlsi=lSZpcZ5uxwxnnTRM

@@weekenddistractions i made a video on my channel that explains it ruclips.net/video/snDc1cM6-7M/видео.htmlsi=lSZpcZ5uxwxnnTRM

@@weekenddistractionsi made a video about it on my channel

I've not heard of this, but it sounds interesting. If you do it, please keep us informed! Thanks for watching.

I don't understand the question. I googled drop stitching, and I still don't understand what it is.

I have not done this. Others have mentioned good results though. I'm patient :)

Thanks so much for the nice comment!

I find that the plant identifiers get confused esp on cacti a lot. I hope you get a chance to start some seeds--it's a very slow process! Best.

Does the tamron open up to f/2.8 or faster? I need at least f/2.8 to limit vignetting. If you look at my butterfly scale video, you can see my current setup which dumps the camera telephoto and now I use the wemacro tube lens setup. It works really well and is not so large.

Glad you enjoyed the video. Never ate one, but they look good :)

Sounds like it is worse than this ride in 2022--or at least as bad. It's a real shame as these trails are so scenic.

I should make that a priority! Thanks for mentioning it.

Hi Todd, A few ATVs and chain saws would help immensely. I think a problem is that dead trees are continuously falling.

Glad you enjoyed it--thanks! Do you plan on planting the saguaro outside? Just curious about the potential climate compatibility. I could guess there must be areas where it would work.

@@weekenddistractions No - I do have alot of frost in winter... and i do have a great windowsill for this plant to live inside.

It was probably made in the 70s--so ebay is the best bet. There are other eyepieces with that thread. I know LOMO made one a while ago.

@@weekenddistractionscan you please link one to me? I looked it up and none of the results had visible threading. I’m a biology student and I also make microscope videos. I’m trying to copy your exact setup. I bought a Sony alpha a6100 (you have an a6000) from BestBuy today and I’ve yet to see if your camera attachments will work. I found all the other items but I need the eye piece with the 28mm thread.

Yeah--it's a neat pen, and they seal very well when working. Glad you found it interesting.

I got this one from Toledo sewing.

I am working on another cacti video, but you see how long this one was in the making! This next one is similar to the saguaro, but it should be faster to develop:)

@@weekenddistractions I can wait 2 years, 5 years, even 10 years. I’m 20 and I have my whole life ahead of me. so please take your time

This is the one and only timewarp I've done. Just wanted to see it for myself. It's an old Garmin 64st. Not very bike friendly.

@@weekenddistractions The Garmin cycle computers are really bike friendly. Sometimes using what you have can be a good thing also. :) These aren't cheap.

Thanks! I wish I could have kept the studio lights for the timelapse, but that light wouldn't have been intense enough to get the flowers to open. Best wishes.

Hi. Yeah, I've been thinking about trying another cactus to grow from seed. Almost anything else will grow much faster than saguaro! Thanks for the comment.

Didn't tumbleweed come to the US this way too?

@@weekenddistractions Yup, I believe in the 1870s, it was said to have appeared in South Dakota when flaxseed from Russia turned out to be contaminated with Tumbleweed seeds. Industrial Ag and just in general poor land management by farmers with an ignorance on management have been the best facilitators of the weedy invasive.

I do like the metric system for most things! However I've never been able to make the transition to Celsius. I always get into trouble dealing with machine shops as most of those folks use English units only. Thanks for watching.

It's got little fingers that slide on and then resist being pulled off. You just kind of wiggle and pull.

That is a hard one. These old Olympus stands are the only ones I've found to be "affordable" -- but that depends on your definition of affordable. This is a transmitted DIC system which is quite a bit more money than the reflected DIC systems (and much harder to find). I got this one from a seller named kurt. I trust him to put together a decent system. I see there is a nikon optiphot transmitted system on ebay currently for $3500, but it says "mold" on optics. There are a couple of Olympus BH2 stands for over $8000 -- eek. Sometimes at University surplus auctions, you can find partial units. It's either a used car or an old transmitted DIC microscope!!

@@weekenddistractions wonderful! thank you

You are welcome. Glad they have some value for you!

I'm glad they are helpful. Hope your growing goes well!

Hi TCB: I don't know anything about grafting, so you'll have to keep up updated on how it goes. I did do an update a few months ago where at the end, I showed the growth progress. Also did a little history as I understand about the expansion of the saguaro into AZ in that same video. Best of luck.

@@weekenddistractions very cool i love your videos I hope u make more in the future. And by grafting cactus to another faster growing cactus it will grow several times faster periskiopsis grows an inch a week as sanguro can take 150 years + to mature!

Glad you enjoyed it. It was new and surprising to me. Looked all over for ID and found a drawing in a river survey of aquatic worms.

I appreciate that. It will happen, but I cannot say when at this time.

So here's a page that shows my setup: www.alanwood.net/olympus/digital-slr-bh2-microscope.html . In the camera adapter section, that tan OM adapter is what I am using. The silver part at the top accepts an old OM DSLR camera. I took that off and replaced it with a thin profile one for minolta cameras. I can do this because the flange to sensor distance on a minolta mount is slightly longer than an old OM DSLR (so I add a thin spacer under the thin profile minolta adapter). In the photo eyepieces section, I use the 2.5x NFK eyepiece to do the projection onto full frame. I can now also use sony e-mount cameras since I only need the adapter for converting E-mount to the old Minolta mount flange distance. Hope this helps. You could probably get an adapter for any modern mirrorless camera to the old olympus dslr mount annd avoid changing anything on the tan adapter.

@@weekenddistractions Ok so I already own 2 microscopes and I don’t want to buy a third. One of my microscopes is in Florida and I plan to leave it there at my grandma’s house for when I visit. The one I have access to year round is an OMAX 40x-2000x. I’m looking for a camera that can attach to my OMAX 40x-2000x Binocular microscope. I want the video quality to be the same as yours. I have a Nikon D3400 camera that I might be able to use but I have no clue how to set that up

@@kepler180 I have a video up that shows how I put a camera on a microscope without a trinocular port.

It's a little clunky but it does work. I would prefer a trinocular, but too pricey for this type of microscope for me.

Well 'picture this' will ID it. I use it thanks to you! It's too bad it looks so pretty, but we need to chop it out.

Thanks for the comment. I have Mitutoyo objectives with a tube lens on an automated stacking rig. I have a 5x and 20x.

Sony A99 with the pellicle removed. I find the pellicle (Sony calls it the translucent mirror) degrades the image for 40x objectives and higher.

@@weekenddistractions thank you

@@weekenddistractions Can you show the rig you have setup to film the microscope? I looked up the camera and its not designed to attach to a microscope. How are you attaching it to the scope?

@@kepler180 If you look at my Leitz Diavert video, you can see how I mounted the Sony A99 to that microscope with an old Nikon adapter. For this video, I used the Olympus BH2. I used the standard camera adapter that Oly has for their DSLR cameras. Turns out that the Sony A99 (with its Minolta mount) has a slightly longer flange to sensor distance than the old Olympus DSLRs. So I removed the camera adapter flange from it and replaced it with a very low profile Minolta adapter. I have not done a video on this rig, but plan to eventually.

Guess there is good eating there :)

Glad you enjoyed it!

Never thought about that, but I suppose you are right!

Thanks. It turned out better than I thought when I first started it. Works great for its intended purpose too.