Plumbata
Well-Known Member
It is an Aladdin Rainbow machine put out by Telesensory, so I understand, and although it is 10 years old it is still a really sweet piece of machinery. It has 6 color/light settings, a tray that moves front/back and side/side, a macrofocus adjuster lever on the side and a microfocus adjuster knob on the front (please pardon my terminology). These were made for people with severe macular degeneration, but since my eyesight is way better than 20/20 it allows me to see things like i've never seen them before. It is so sweet! These things retailed for 2 grand, but I managed to pick it up for 32 bucks! An awesome purchase, as far as i'm concerned.
Here are some pictures, the camera has trouble reproducing the human eye's experience, and some more was damage was caused by uploading to the image host so there is TONS of distortion. Believe me it looks WAY WAY WAY better in person, so use your imagination and ignore the lines and pixellation and weird dark zones!
The lowest magnification level. It is focused on a tiny 9/32 by 13/32 inch miocene shark tooth, barely visible below the broken chert spearhead:
More magnified:
Most magnified, my fingernail is right below teh root of the tooth. Again, the picture does not do any justice to the machine whatsoever:
Very nice coral colony exposed by HCl, lowest mag.
Highest magnification, you can see the internal structures of each tiny 1/20th of an inch diameter tube!
Rare 1820 inverted "1" British sixpence, lowest setting:
Hightest mag, even though the camera does a piss-poor job of capturing what is in reality a high fidelity and crystal-clear focus, you can still see the inverted 1 pretty well.
This toy is great for looking at damage on bottles, determining what flakes on an indian artifact are original versus newer damage, looking at double die or cracked die errors on coins, seeing how gross your cuticles actually are, studying crystalline mineral structures, looking at bugs, plant material, or anything else where one's eyes can't quite do justice to the minute and complex details of whatever it is you would like to scrutinize.
I suggest you all go buy one today!
Here are some pictures, the camera has trouble reproducing the human eye's experience, and some more was damage was caused by uploading to the image host so there is TONS of distortion. Believe me it looks WAY WAY WAY better in person, so use your imagination and ignore the lines and pixellation and weird dark zones!
The lowest magnification level. It is focused on a tiny 9/32 by 13/32 inch miocene shark tooth, barely visible below the broken chert spearhead:
More magnified:
Most magnified, my fingernail is right below teh root of the tooth. Again, the picture does not do any justice to the machine whatsoever:
Very nice coral colony exposed by HCl, lowest mag.
Highest magnification, you can see the internal structures of each tiny 1/20th of an inch diameter tube!
Rare 1820 inverted "1" British sixpence, lowest setting:
Hightest mag, even though the camera does a piss-poor job of capturing what is in reality a high fidelity and crystal-clear focus, you can still see the inverted 1 pretty well.
This toy is great for looking at damage on bottles, determining what flakes on an indian artifact are original versus newer damage, looking at double die or cracked die errors on coins, seeing how gross your cuticles actually are, studying crystalline mineral structures, looking at bugs, plant material, or anything else where one's eyes can't quite do justice to the minute and complex details of whatever it is you would like to scrutinize.
I suggest you all go buy one today!
]. The "effect" only occurred when the images were automatically reduced in size when uploaded to the current image host. Before that there were just horizontal bands of darkness which would slowly move up the screen, and the details were far more visible despite being more pixelated than one would observe in person.
