Rheinberg Filters Starter Manual

By Michael Shaw

Rheinberg filters allow you to add brilliant contrasting colors to your microscope viewing and photography in a very inexpensive way. Most microscopic specimens are clear, and since microscopes use light, it passes through these mostly transparent objects. From microorganisms in a pond, to ancient micro fossils called diatoms, allergy causing pollen spores in the air, crystals like sugar and salt, and many other interesting specimens—they are all clear when viewed under a microscope.
So, these very beautiful things are difficult to see against a white background of pure light passing from the illuminator through your eyepiece.

The only way to see these things is by using contrast. This booklet is about a special method of creating contrast by Optical Staining. That’s a fancy way of saying we color the light, selectively. It’s like dyeing cloth—without the chemicals. This 39 page E-book with dozens of instructional photos, teaches you the Rheinberg method using tools and materials easily obtained at your local office supply store.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Shaw
• Release date: May 22, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463509333

Michael Shaw

By profession, Mike is a professional musician, working as a keyboard player and private music teacher. Mike has been teaching piano, electronic keyboard and electric organ for over thirty years and as a keyboard player worked in many night clubs and entertainment venues. Mike has also branched out in to composing music and has written and recorded many new royalty free tracks which are used worldwide in TV, film and internet media applications. "My favourite piece of music is "Music" by John Miles, it describes how my life has been and continues to be, I consider myself very lucky" Mike is also proud of the fact that many of his students have gone on to be musicians, composers and teachers in their own right. "Learning to play a piano, keyboard or any musical instrument is the greatest gift anybody can gives themselves" Listen to Mikes royalty free music here: http://audiojungle.net/user/audiomichaeld/portfolio?ref=audiomichaeld See Mike playing the Roland Atelier organ on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/user/captinmichaeld

Book preview

What are Rheinberg Filters? Although you may already have some idea about them, I’ll just say a few words to highlight what they do and how they work.

Microscopes use light, passing through mostly transparent objects. From microorganisms in a pond, to ancient micro fossils called diatoms, allergy causing pollen spores in the air, crystals like sugar and salt, and many other interesting specimens—they are all clear when viewed under a microscope.

So, these very beautiful things are very difficult to see against a white background of pure light passing from the illuminator through your eyepiece. The only way to see these things is by using contrast. This booklet is about a special method of creating contrast by Optical Staining. That’s a fancy way of saying we color the light, selectively. It’s like dyeing cloth—without the chemicals.

This light staining technique is called Rheinberg, named after the man who created this technique in 1896, Julius Rheinberg. We selectively make the specimen one color, and we make the background a contrasting, darker color.

You are reading a very thorough, but condensed booklet. For much more detailed information, you can purchase my book called Your Microscope Hobby - How to Make Multi-colored Filters: Rheinberg, Polarizing, Darkfield and Oblique by Michael W Shaw. And you can find many resources on my website to assist you in making Rheinberg Filters. Check it all out at www.tardigrade.us

Chapter 1 –Extra Benefits of Making Rheinberg Filters

Whether you are a working professional or an avid enthusiast, you can use Rheinberg filters in your research. By learning some of these filter making techniques, you will always be able to create filters of high quality.

Perhaps you would like to enter some of your photomicrography in a contest, or even sell some of the photos you’ve taken through the microscope. Now you are on the fast track, because Rheinberg filters will give you the pzazzz that you need. There are two great contests that you should enter each year, no matter what your level in the field of microscopy.

I actually sold a collection of my Epsom salt crystal photographs to a restaurant in England. A touch of irony is that this restaurant is located in the town of Epsom, England (where the salt originally came from). You can generate interest in your