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- Wed Mar 11, 2020 4:53 pm
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: What is a Leider microscope?
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Re: What is a Leider microscope?
Saw that. It was a 2010-2011 catalog. They don't sell them now. But I agree, they do look like they come out of the same factory as Amscope and Omax
- Wed Mar 11, 2020 3:34 pm
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: What is a Leider microscope?
- Replies: 2
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What is a Leider microscope?
A neighbor is considering a microscope made by Lieder.
I can't find anything about the scope or the manufacturer other than the fact that they sell slides.
Does anyone here know anything about it?
I can't find anything about the scope or the manufacturer other than the fact that they sell slides.
Does anyone here know anything about it?
- Thu Apr 25, 2019 9:08 pm
- Forum: Camera systems and imaging
- Topic: Reducer or lower magnify. alternative for AmScope 2X Nikon adapter?
- Replies: 2
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Re: Reducer or lower magnify. alternative for AmScope 2X Nikon adapter?
<slaps forehead> Well now there's a thought!Scarodactyl wrote:Any particular reason not to pick up a lower power objective instead?
Thanks!
- Thu Apr 25, 2019 8:22 pm
- Forum: Camera systems and imaging
- Topic: Reducer or lower magnify. alternative for AmScope 2X Nikon adapter?
- Replies: 2
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Reducer or lower magnify. alternative for AmScope 2X Nikon adapter?
The 2X adapters available from AmScope and OMAX, paired with a 40x objective provides more magnification than I want for some specimens. Is anyone aware of a 0.3X or 0.5x adapter that will work with a Nikon D90 in my 23.2mm trinocular? I've had good luck with my iPhone and a LabCam adapter, but I re...
- Thu Feb 14, 2019 8:37 pm
- Forum: Introduce yourself
- Topic: Looking for love all the wrong places?
- Replies: 2
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Re: Looking for love all the wrong places?
My bride, without telling me, spent hours and hours researching microscopes and concluded that a good used one would be better than a cheap new one. But, she said, she couldn't find anything affordable except antique monocular scopes. I independently spent hours and hours and came to the same conclu...
- Thu Feb 14, 2019 5:52 pm
- Forum: Introduce yourself
- Topic: Looking for love all the wrong places?
- Replies: 2
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Looking for love all the wrong places?
Even with undergraduate minors in chemistry, math, and physics, my life has been more as a science voyeur than a practicing scientist. Photography and astronomy titillated me for years, but late nights alone in the cold dampened my passion for astrophotography and my 8" Cassegrain spent many lonely ...