eye of science

founded 1995 by:

Nicole Ottawa

Biologist

1985-1993 Studies of biology at the "Freie Universität Berlin", degree as dipl. biol.
1993-1994 Internship at the Institute for scientific photography, M. Kage
1994 Course in electron microscopy, University of Münster

Oliver Meckes

Photographer

1976 first contacts with microscopy and photography
1983-1985 Vocational training as photographer, starting underwater photography
1986-1989 Internship as a micro photographer and
1989-1994 Scientific photographer at the Institute for scientific photography, M. Kage

STATEMENT

eye of science on artificial intelligence (AI)

eye of science's images are created with the greatest effort and according to scientific criteria in order to depict nature as accurately as possible. For this reason, Eye of Science expressly prohibits the use of its copyrighted images to generate AI content. While AI-generated images may appear realistic, they are the result of algorithms and often lack a real scientific basis. Therefore, they must be clearly labeled as such.

FEI Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope Quanta 250

Scanning Electron Microscopes

FEI Quanta 250 FEG field emission scanning electron microscope. High-vacuum, low-vacuum and environmental modes. Equipped with modified backscattered electron detectors for advanced SEM photography and special detectors for the low-vacuum microscopy.

Amray 1610 Turbo scanning electron microscope, digitized, with LaB6 cathode. Detectors: Secondary electron detector, Robinson detector and Silicon detector to scan electrons of different energetic levels.

Transmission electron microscopy on request, in cooperation with various laboratories.

Light Microscopy

Nikon Eclipse 800 laboratory microscope with plan apo-chromatic lenses, polarization, brightfield, darkfield, differential interference contrast and self-made extensions. It can be combined with different camera systems for photography and video.

Zeiss photo microscope with plan- and planapochromatic optics up to 1,000x magnification; rare interference contrast "Jamin Lebedeff".

Specimen Preparation

Stereo microscopes for sample preparation, finest tweezers, needles, hairs to manipulate the specimen. Chemicals for fixation and dehydration. For the required colour imaging of the SEM images several powerful computers are in use.

Laboratory

Preparation laboratory for scanning electron microscopy with critical point drying apparatus and sputter-coating with gold or palladium coating. Various equipment for cutting, grinding or etching of technical samples. Incubator for cells and bacteria, autoclave.

Underwater Housing for Nikon Kamera with Fluorescence equipment

Underwater Photography

Seacam Underwater Housing, equipped with dome and macro-ports, containing Nikon D750 camera with 15mm, 17-35mm, 60mm, 105mm lenses with "Wet Diopter". Several Subtronic flashes and Hartenberger high power LED lamp. Selfmade fluorescent equipment with filters for flash and camera.