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by Tailspin45
Wed Mar 11, 2020 4:53 pm
Forum: Microscopes and optics
Topic: What is a Leider microscope?
Replies: 2
Views: 3128

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
by Tailspin45
Wed Mar 11, 2020 3:34 pm
Forum: Microscopes and optics
Topic: What is a Leider microscope?
Replies: 2
Views: 3128

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?
by Tailspin45
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
Views: 2957

Re: Reducer or lower magnify. alternative for AmScope 2X Nikon adapter?

Scarodactyl wrote:Any particular reason not to pick up a lower power objective instead?
<slaps forehead> Well now there's a thought!

Thanks!
by Tailspin45
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
Views: 2957

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...
by Tailspin45
Thu Feb 14, 2019 8:37 pm
Forum: Introduce yourself
Topic: Looking for love all the wrong places?
Replies: 2
Views: 3329

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...
by Tailspin45
Thu Feb 14, 2019 5:52 pm
Forum: Introduce yourself
Topic: Looking for love all the wrong places?
Replies: 2
Views: 3329

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 ...