Vinyl Disc Under Microscope

Photo via zeiss microscopy.

Vinyl disc under microscope.

It s crazy what every day objects look like when you look at them through a microscope. The ridges on a penny. C is a camera without objective lens and t is the test sample. Now you can see how the needle slides over the record at 1 400 speed.

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. But still i think you ll agree that the results are stunning. 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. 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. 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. This first vinyl record image was captured at 100x magnification using reflected light through the objective lens.

Photo via zeiss microscopy. 21 everyday items put under the microscope reveal their hidden complexity. Today we look at a cd rom under a variety of magnifications up to an empty 2000x. What cds dvds blu rays look like under a microscope.

When i pulled it from the jacket i could see immediately it had gone through a rough life. The record in the first photo is one such case. Home wow 21 everyday items put under the microscope reveal their hidden complexity. Your vinyl record s grooves magnified 1 000x under an electron microscope.

But have i simply gone too far to prove a point. Here s a link to the applied science video that i used as inspiration for. I ll won t comment too much because these pictures really do speak for themselves.