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Michal Opas wrote:

> The problem consist in getting not-so-well-focused images on screen,
> while the cell viewed by eye appears super sharp.  We tested it on
> phalloidin-labelled cells: we see sharp stress fibres and striations in
> cardiomyocytes and the same stress fibres appear slightly blurred on the
> monitor screen and striations are hard to make up.

Is there any chance that it's just vibration?

Cables can sometimes transmit vibration to the table.  Also, we've had
trouble from time to time with one of the valves on our air-table
sticking in the "on" position so that the table is stuck at the top of
its excursion.  That ends up being little better than if the air were
off entirely.

Good luck!
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