On 12 December 2012 18:21, DK <[email protected]> wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, WS < > [email protected]> wrote: > >Dear colleagues, > > > >I could grab a dark reader transilluminator (a box with a blue filter > that is > > using filtered visible light instead of UV to illuminate your EtBr > stained DNA > > gels), but without the amber filter. > > > >Instead of buying the original amber plastic piece, I am looking for a > cheap > > alternative (something amber/orange) that will do the trick, too. > > Any cheap pare of plastic orange glasses/gogles. We bought ours > for $15 but I can't remember where. As we only use blue transillumunator > for preparative purposes, goggles work actually much better. > On few rare occasions where I did need to make a picture (GelGreen > stained gel or GFP colony/lysates), I just took a shot with phone camera > through the same gogles. Worked fine. One oif these pics is even > published. > > Not sure about the source but ours do look similar to these: > http://www.xenopuselectronix.com/xeled/Accessories.html > http://www.xenopuselectronix.com/xeled/Accessories/Noir_Orange.jpg > (Note that these guys also offer same plastic in sheets in case you > want your amber filter for $40. > > I am sure these will do fine as well: > > http://www.dinodirect.com/laser-eye-protection-safety-orange-glasses-laser-goggles-goggle-for-blue-laser-473nm. > ht<http://www.dinodirect.com/laser-eye-protection-safety-orange-glasses-laser-goggles-goggle-for-blue-laser-473nm. > html> On similar, slightly divergent note, I got intrigued about making sepia tint on photographs.... whetehr it could translate into X-ray films, because it is a conversion of silver to silver sulphide, although I am not sure if that happens before or after the positive is fixed and developed..... thought about it in the context of Wo's question about amber plastics :) Pow > DK > _______________________________________________ > Methods mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/methods > _______________________________________________ Methods mailing list [email protected] http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/methods
