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If you are having trouble finding a specific E-mount adapter you can buy an adapter for a legacy format like M42 and then buy an adapter that allows you to use M42 lens on your camera, looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/TXToUFP.jpg In this case I have an eyepiece to M42 adapter that was fitted wit...

I'm a bit late to the party, but I reckon it's worth leaving this note for future reference, as this is one of the top google search results regarding focusing problems with the Alphaphot YS. I ended up with that exact model, Alphaphot YS, and I also had trouble with the fine focus, it was constantl...

I am guessing this nice darkfield photo was taken with the Nikon 60X objective? would be interesting to see ot woth the 100X/1.30 oil. Taken with the Zeiss 40x, I'll order a small 5ml bottle of immersion oil made by Bresser from a nearby reseller, I'm assuming they are very similar between manufact...

I was curious to try it out, so yesterday I designed a simple adaptor that could be mounted on my condenser holder and that could grab the collar of the darkfield condenser, then I sent it to the printer during the night. This is what I ended up with: https://i.imgur.com/16Vgd8j.jpg This is what it ...

Well, the price is identical and it looks like the only difference is the lens holder. Still, rest assured I will not hit it with the Dremel .

Your dark field condenser has a collar to be mounted on older Zeiss microscopes. If you can raise it to the right height and center it there properly, you might be able to use it. Dark field condensers for the Zeiss Standard are not very common and not cheap, so it might be worth the try. When I ha...

cemented lens groups are used to reduce the number of glass-air surfaces where light loss and stray light is produced. They are necessary for high performance optics. I try a little to keep my microscopes from quick temperature changes and avoid hard knocks on the objective barrels. Oh, I see, so t...

You might have a closer look at your objectives and eyepieces: Zeiss West optics tend a bit more to delamination, break down of glues inside lens groups. Can I do something about it preemptively, or is this a sort of "it happens" deal? Didn't knew they used adhesives inside, the vintage (camera) le...

The Nikon objective, however, is not going to play well with your Zeiss optics, though. The Zeiss system has quite a lot of color correction in the eyepieces, while the Nikon CF objectives are fully corrected on their own, and the eyepieces are 'neutral' so to say. So the corrections made by your Z...

I bought my first microscope a couple of days ago, I was checking a couple of new cheap ones but they are overall still above the budget I had set, so I ended up buying an used one. It's an old Carl Zeiss microscope that came from a lab that closed and auctioned its assets, it was bought from a guy ...

Hi, Playing with microscopes was one of my favourite activities in biology in school, but we didn't get to do it often, fast forward around 15 years and I've just bought my first microscope. By googling around I've already had multiple doubts cleared by topics in this forum, so I've decided to creat...