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Also, bear in mind that the older monoculars were designed with long focal length /wide field of view objectives in mind, so you can use older 2 Inch and 3Inch objectives. But I also have an inexpensive no-brand DINx2 that isnt bad But the pleasure from using the older lenses far exceeds. If you wan...

Krame, I dont have much knowledge of what is available over your side of the water, but if there are cheap used horsehoe-stand microscopes I would go for one. Honestly you can't really go wrong :-) Put in on the carpet,take it outside. Dont worry if the objectives arent parfocal they soon get to kno...

Yes, its output is DC, mine came with a 'screw terminal' connector amongst the various interchangable ends and this one has the + and - polarity marked on it (albeit in not very large font).

Don, I can't match the number on the front of the power supply exactly with anything I can find on the internet (bizzare, I know) But it looks exactly like the one in the photo I posted apart from the number on the front (and the fact that my control knob decreases in output when it is turned clockw...

I suppose what I should have said is that the whole light units cost about £5 (in the UK) ..I suppose there isnt much demand for these LED units [they retrofit into the old linear-halogen bulb fittings].

The individual strips in these 10w lights seem to make good low level illumination, each strip seems to run at around 24 volts and the negative and postive connections are labelled: R7S J118 halogen fitting.jpg The strips are held onto the big aluminium extrusion by some weakish heat-sink paste and ...

Really enjoyable photographs and videos, Stomias...I can now see why one might have an aquarium ;-) FireNIceFly; Have you looked at the 'Used and ex-demonstration equipment' section on the Brunel Microscopes website? I have purchased a few older/used objectives from them and they have all been brigh...

FireNIceFly, this may be a bit late and you have got yourself sorted, but have you considered the older monocular English microscopes (the black/grey ones) ? - They might be a bit under your budget but they are very enjoyable to use ; you see the benefits from cleaning their optics and feel the bene...

A search for something like ' 23.2mm microscope adapter tube for Nikon mirrorless camera' will show them, I think.
This shows the the extra extension tube that comes with the mirrorless version of the lens-less adapter (in this case for a Canon eos M series):

Having come back, after a 50 year gap, to having fun with a microscope I wonder if the some of the problem is to do with the design of modern microscope stages? The 'Watson' I used as a child, apart from being a wonderful brass colour and having an excessive number of knobs, had flat topped x-y stag...

Mirrorless! -Bonif, the sensor in my mirrored apsc camera sits about 45mm behind the flange on the front of the camera, that gives the light some distance to spread out from the adapter and cover the sensor . In a mirrorless camera the sensor is much closer to the front of the camera (as there no ne...

bonif, well done :-) You may already have some way of taking the photos without having to press the button on the camera body?? -If your camera has a socket on the side for it; a ' Remote Shutter Release Switch Control' (as they are called on ebay ) is a very nice thing. On my camera it is underneat...

bonif, it is a really simple thing ; an empty tube that is joined to a canon ef lens mount:

There is another significant difference between the lens-less and the lensed adapters: With the lensless adapter the image on the camera screen moves in the same way as the object is moved by the stage (and the image is not upside down ) this is not the case with the lensed adapters. (The exposure t...

Hi, I am new here too :-) But I have an EOS APSC dslr; I have tried 4 different sorts of adapter: I started with a generic 'NDPL-2' and then purchased a more expensive one from Amscope, which was quite a bit better than the first [even though it just said NDPL-2 on the side (No 'Amscope' label or an...