See this earlier post.

I have not taken a huge amount of photos with my Chinese brand microscope during the time I owned it. Therefore a comparison is hard to make. I recently encountered the same algae (Asparagopsis taxiformis - Falkenbergia Stage / Sporophyte Stage) than I had in one of my first reef aquariums, so this presented a good test case to see just how much you get for the additional cost of a research grade microscope.

All the old photos were taken with a $500 Chinese brand microscope coupled with a $400 2.1MP Motic CCD. All new photos were taken with an Olympus BX53 microscope with UPlanSApo objectives and a Canon 600D camera. The old photos used bright field illumination, the new photos used DIC.

These polyps measure at most 4mm across.

I recently started getting these failures on a server I manage. The error in Windows Backup states:

Creation of the shared protection point timed out. The shared protection point operation failed with error 0x81000101.

The event log had this:

On a recent work trip I managed to get some photos of this beautiful place. Unfortunately I only had 2 hours to take photos.

Trying to check in some code I kept on receiving this:

Unable to PUT new contents for ##some path##.  [403, #0]  
Could not prepare to write the file  [500, #200014]  
Base checksum mismatch on '##some file##'n   expected:  4a5d17918bddd2c52c396f9b604fb3e9n     actual:  b138c1fa977c20bd4898362ef1ab6558n  [500, #200014]  

Also, the checkin was extremely slow. Turns out I had to upgrade my local client of svn to 1.8.8 and upgrade the repository. Reloading IntelliJ was the final fix.