DDW5: Water Day 0

Wow, that sucked. I had to crop, rename, and label 42 pictures for this notebook. Stupid open science movement. Why do I strive to be a good scientist? Why can’t I just let myself be lazy and allow myself to be a bad scientist? Who cares about accurate data and organization?

I do unfortunately.

Anyways here are the Day 0 pictures. Luckily I don’t have to do this every day, that would suck. From now on I may label the water types as follows:

  • RODI – Easypure RoDI water from the lab
  • CHTM – DI water from the CHTM plant
  • SMB – Sigma Molecular Biology DI water
  • STC – Sigma Tissue Culture DI water
  • DDW – deuterium depleted water
  • DDDW – 1% D2O in DDW

Since the last time I did this, I have learned a ton about proper exposure with a camera. And I actually know what aperture, ISO, and shutter speed are for. I’ll do a post that explains all that but in the mean time here are the settings I used for these pictures and those in the future:

  • Aperture – Set at F11
  • Shutter Speed – Set at 1/13″ (I think, it’s a Nikon camera so it just says 13)
  • ISO  – Set at 1600

I’m sure these settings are saved with the images so if you download the pics you’ll see the camera settings in photo software.