These are short clips of some of our most amazing HD
videos taken with our HD video
systems.
We originally saved these in MPEG4 HD 1280x720 format, but have now posted
them to YouTube to save our bandwidth. The imbedded versions below
are in YouTube standard quality, but you can click the links below to go
to YouTube.com to view these in HD.
These clips were edited using Pinnacle Studio software, sold
separately for around $100.00.
BABY SPIDERS UNDER DARKFIELD
for Halloween
This video was taken using our MHC999PKG on a Wild M420 Apozoom with darkfield illumination. These
spiders had just hatched from at least one of their egg sacks. We
kept them 3 days before releasing them during which time also hatched a
number of what we believe to be parasitic wasps. I don't know how
that's supposed to work, but the spiders were eating the wasps by day
3.
(click "HD" button for best quality)
PLANARIAN EATING WORM SEGMENT
This video was taken using our MHC199PKG on a Leica MZ12.5
stereomicroscope with darkfield illumination.
Special
thanks to Dr. Paul Davison of the University of North Alabama for his
wonderful microaquaria filled with an array of microorganisms.
This video clip was recorded at the Dec. 2005 ATBI conference, but
finally edited and saved digitally recently. We've played this
tape for many people at shows and for visitors to our office, and it is
always a hit.
Dr. Davison tells us about the
planarian: The genus is Phagocata. As of 1970 there were only two species
of polypharyngeal Phagocata in North America (there are other species of
the genus that have only one pharynx). The two possible species
for the worms that I collect in Alabama are Phagocata woodworthi and
Phagocata gracilis. The two species cannot be told apart by
external anatomy, but based on published distributions, most likely the
Alabama worms are P. gracilis. The worms are quite abundant in
local springs.
CATAPULTING FERN SPORES
This video was taken using our MHC199PKG on a
Wild M420 Apozoom macroscope.
Special thanks
to Tom Goforth, local fern expert, for providing the sample frond at
just the right time to disperse the spores. Tom showed us this
when he came in to buy a microscope and digital camera, and it is the
most amazing thing to watch! So, we asked him to come back and let
us make a high definition video, which he did recently.
Tom Goforth owns Crow Dog Company Native Ferns and
Gardens located near Table Rock, SC.
