Vinyl Disc Under Microscope

The footage of the needle running through the grooves was made by saving microscope images in an oscilloscope one at a time and then using photoshop to make a gif.

Vinyl disc under microscope.

It s crazy what every day objects look like when you look at them through a microscope. The record in the first photo is one such case. Now you can see how the needle slides over the record at 1 400 speed. Photo via zeiss microscopy.

C is a camera without objective lens and t is the test sample. The ridges on a penny. Photo via zeiss microscopy. A 6 3 megapixel microscope digital camera was used to capture the images.

Today we look at a cd rom under a variety of magnifications up to an empty 2000x. Your vinyl record s grooves magnified 1 000x under an electron microscope. Optical microscope using dvd focusing lens l 1 and 2d translation stage s. But still i think you ll agree that the results are stunning.

An electron microscope has been used to produce images of vinyl lps as well as cds dvds and blu ray discs at the micrometre level. All images courtesy of reddit. But have i simply gone too far to prove a point. Under the microscope the grooves were embedded with crud and the lands the space between the grooves showed signs of extreme wear with hundreds of vinyl deflections along the edges of the grooves.

21 everyday items put under the microscope reveal their hidden complexity. A image of a usaf 1951 resolution test pattern. His latest project saw him buy a vinyl record to put under electron microscope. When i pulled it from the jacket i could see immediately it had gone through a rough life.

Home wow 21 everyday items put under the microscope reveal their hidden complexity. I ll won t comment too much because these pictures really do speak for themselves. Here s a link to the applied science video that i used as inspiration for.