Vinyl Disc Under Microscope

Optical microscope using dvd focusing lens l 1 and 2d translation stage s.

Vinyl disc under microscope.

Home wow 21 everyday items put under the microscope reveal their hidden complexity. Photo via zeiss microscopy. 21 everyday items put under the microscope reveal their hidden complexity. All images courtesy of reddit.

It s crazy what every day objects look like when you look at them through a 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. 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. 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.

But still i think you ll agree that the results are stunning. The ridges on a penny. I ll won t comment too much because these pictures really do speak for themselves. A image of a usaf 1951 resolution test pattern.

Now you can see how the needle slides over the record at 1 400 speed. The record in the first photo is one such case. 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. Here s a link to the applied science video that i used as inspiration for.

What cds dvds blu rays look like under a microscope. This first vinyl record image was captured at 100x magnification using reflected light through the objective lens. His latest project saw him buy a vinyl record to put under electron microscope. But have i simply gone too far to prove a point.

Photo via zeiss microscopy. C is a camera without objective lens and t is the test sample. Today we look at a cd rom under a variety of magnifications up to an empty 2000x.