Vinyl Disc Under Microscope

But have i simply gone too far to prove a point.

Vinyl disc under 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. What cds dvds blu rays look like under a microscope. Microscope world recently took an old vinyl record and put it under a metallurgical microscope to see what the grooves looked like at high magnification.

The record in the first photo is one such case. A image of a usaf 1951 resolution test pattern. Your vinyl record s grooves magnified 1 000x under an electron microscope. C is a camera without objective lens and t is the test sample.

But still i think you ll agree that the results are stunning. A 6 3 megapixel microscope digital camera was used to capture the images. I ll won t comment too much because these pictures really do speak for themselves. The ridges on a penny.

Today we look at a cd rom under a variety of magnifications up to an empty 2000x. Here s a link to the applied science video that i used as inspiration for. Now you can see how the needle slides over the record at 1 400 speed. Photo via zeiss microscopy.

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. All images courtesy of reddit. 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.

His latest project saw him buy a vinyl record to put under electron microscope. Optical microscope using dvd focusing lens l 1 and 2d translation stage s. This first vinyl record image was captured at 100x magnification using reflected light through the objective lens.