Sample HD Video Clips

     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.  


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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.

The MicroAquarium website


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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. 

http://www.crowdognativeferns.com/

 


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Spider video MP4

 

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