Microscope horrors
I suppose it had to happen sooner or later. I had to take a perfectly good scientific instrument and do something perverse with it. I figure I need some controversy on my site if I want to attract large audiences.
If you remember, my brother got my son a Digital Blue QX5 USB microscope. I even posted some pictures with it. Well, over the weekend I did something pretty horrible. I trained the microscope on my half-chewed figernails and started to pull apart my flesh at 60x magnification.
Dare you click on this link to see what happened? HiQ (12.5MB), MedQ (3MB).
This blog is heading downhill in a big way. By the way, I’ll know if you clicked on the link since Feedburner will tell me so.
I encoded the 2+ minute movie using Quicktime Pro. I used the mpeg4 encoder. If you have Quicktime, you should be able to play it. I shrunk the image 50% from it’s original 640x480 size and limited the datarate to 20Kbps for the MedQ link (3MB). The HiQ link runs at about 80Kbps. I used Apple's default encoder. It's kind of slow, but the quality is very good.