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Hello!
I'm in stereoscopy, I only have a Bresser Researcher ICD for a decade.
There's a chance I may buy a Leica Gia for a good price.
It's a gemological stereoscope.
Do you know if it is capable of general use?
I like to see artifacts, insects, sand, gems, rocks etc.

Thank you. Will I be able to use my Amscope long eye relief eyepieces?
May I find somewhere some info about this model?

I meant "Microscope", sorry!

Hello everybody.

I only own a stereomicroscope and some loupes. But there is a chance I might buy a biological microscope. I would like your opinion.

Is that a real Zeiss? What model?

How much would you pay?

Thank you.

Sorry for being late. I look at opaque objects mostly, so I use a stereo microscope. I look at gemstones, minerals, sand, paintwork on my lead soldiers, stamps, blade edges etc, all are hobbies of mine. I am a physician and I was unimpressed looking at bacteria during University. Finally I became a ...

Thank you. I saw BH2 on eBay. There’s a great range of prices, up to 2500$ plus. Those close to 500 come without objectives. And most come from America or Asia. That means more money for shipping and maybe customs. The microscope above is in Greece and has 3 objectives included. It would see light u...

Hello. I have a stereomicroscope already and I always thought I would buy a biological as well. There's an Olympus CX21 up for sale. It looks like it has both eyepieces and 4x, 10x, 40x objectives. It goes for 500 euros, which is substantial for today's Greece, deep into the financial crisis. So I w...

Yes, it's Seibert. Sometimes they have them on eBay as EMO Wetzlar. And in German it is spelled Emoskop. I find the views alraight, as long as you focus right. The field of view is small. Compared to my Belomo 10x it is quite close. But there are chinese copies of the metal original (Haverhill's) an...

http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170106/9cf9a35a3c83bf6afe1bb42b661e6c99.jpg I made my own stands. For the Docter 8x21, out of a Urobox and a 100ml bottle, cut roughly with my Swiss Army Knife. The combination is focusable. With the +10 lens I focus on the table at 20x and with the +5 lens I focus...

Here it is. For those who don't know it, it is a 2.5-3x Galilean fieldscope with close focus, 5x loupe, 10x loupe, 15x loupe and 25-30x microscope. Made by Arthur Siebert, who worked for Leitz and Minox (making lenses for the legendary Minox spycamera) and then his own company, EMO of Wetzlar. It is...

Update: I bought an original Emoscop from Germany. It is a very nice 25-30x field microscope, among other things. Very impressed.

Hello again.

Has anyone any experience with Siebert's original Emoscop or Haverhills Episcope?
I would like to try one but it seems a bit difficult for the German original Emo-optik, while I don't know the quality of the Haverhills copy.
Any info will be much appreciated. Thank you.

When the microscope is going to be used I remove the scopestuff caps, put the 10x eyepieces (the caps come from generic Plossls and they fit only to the Amscope 10x, but it's a bless I can cover them anyway) and the charger to the socket or a trio of AA batteries and ready to go. The case stays besi...

I know that my microscope isn't much but it gave me new capabilities and expanded my horizons. I intend to use it during my summer vacations, when I'll have time and the opportunity to collect some specimens. So I needed a fully postable setup, capable for safe transport and even field use. I had th...

Thanks. 60x is as far as I wished to go. It is the right magnification for the numerical aperture of 2x objective. If there was available a second objective I would choose 1x-3x. Anyway, this is my first microscope, if my interest persist I'll get something better in the future.

I received the Amscope eyepieces today. The 10x is awesome, a real upgrade over the stock ones. Wider lens, wider AFOV and TFOV, better eye relief (not that it was bad to the 10x, but it was terrible to the 20x). The 30x has the same qualities and here there more needed. 120x is absolutely usable. T...

That's why I ask. All microscopes you mention are Chinese in fact and Amscopes are Chinese too, but it seems they have the widest product selection with the best prices but are unavailable in Europe, so you must count shipping and perhaps customs too. Some microscopes are sold under different brand ...

You live in Europe O assume, right?

I was suspicious that the real magnification of this camera is higher than stated (15x), I mean, just look at this rice seed and you understand this isn't 30x and 60x, really. So, I measured the FOV with a simple ruler and I could see the width of 10mm in the 10x WF field of view. How much can I see...

Interesting.

I used all my telescope eyepieces down to 5mm (~50x) so I've seen 200x and it was good optically, much better than the photographs. I keep a William Optics Zoom 24-8 in my box (I'll show you my fully portable solution later) for higher magnifications until I receive my new eyepieces. For the time be...

Finally, these are the Eyepieces I ordered from Amscope. http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15/02/17/625910f06a22192d5346181fdf315caa.jpg Pairs of 5x WF, 10x/22 EWF HEP and 30x/9 EWF HEP This way and excluding the unusable incuded 20x WFs (80x), I'll be having stereo magnifications of 10x, 20x, 40x, ...

I have circular polarizers available (from 3D glasses). Would they work? Telescope polarizers (linear) are narrow (31.75mm) and tied together in the form I know http://www.telescope.com/Astrophotography/Astrophotography-Filters/125-Orion-Variable-Polarizing-Filter/c/4/sc/63/p/5560.uts, I might not b...

Thank you.
I've done that with the lazer, with red and green lazer, it is amazing.
I don't have a polarizing filter but I can change that. When I get on where should I put it, between the light and the item?

It is clear I have a lot of work to do to focus right and then use the stacking method.

Some more

There are lots to learn about photography. I used MiCam and Digital Microscope suite and then CombineZP. The later seems very complicated at this point, I have to study the manual I guess. The Celestron 2MP camera is 15x, so it gives 30x and 60x. That's a lot of magnification and I loose the context...

Very nice!
I have a Celestron color filters set that I didn't use much for astronomy but I kept it having an instict it might prove useful. I'm goimg to experiment with it on my microscope, I even might try to make an adaptor for the incident LED light of the Bresser.

I found a charger. It is a pass partout model that I use at 4.5V and it works fine for the time being. I bought a Celestron Digital Imager and completed the order of three pairs of eyepieces, 5x WF, 10x Extreme Widefield and 30x Widefield (because 15x wasn't available and I want the 60x option, it j...