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Is anyone aware of an online location of manuals for the zeiss Axio series Skop, phot, etc....?

What type condenser are you using?.... I get similar images out of my new to me eclipse and assumed that an Abbe wasnt up to the 1000x, like you my scope runs well at 200x and 500x... I have an Ebay Nikon Achromat in the mail..... As an addenda I also dont have a 100x of the same cailber that you ha...

I really do know the difference LOL between objective and Eyepiece.......... Still getting that switch fixed between Astro and Micro....

I have no means of shooting through my scope right now but below is a sample shot in a light box with a below macro lens. (I have a ton to learn on macro photography as well.) The field of view is roughly a half inch but defines what I mean by craggy. I like the wax paper idea and I see two votes fo...

Just curious as to how many people mix objectives and sizes in a given turret.

Beautiful scopes, I saw that they way well over 100 lbs..... Those are 28mm EPs in those?

Thanks that may work well for the flatter specimens, but most micros are pretty craggy. Maybe that bulb with a whole cut for the path of light. I get the idea of difuse I was also wondering if I could somehow rig up a darkfield ring light.....with a lot of the micro crystals and such that could be i...

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That would be a huge improvement over what I have....... So yes please.

I about have my Oly SZH10 dialed in, and am incredibly happy so far. The one thing I am not thrilled with, is the illumination. I needed a ring light and I bought an Amscope something or other. It just seems to be really harsh, maybe by definition that's what you get. What would be the best illumina...

Why does currently in production matter? I doubt you will wear out the objectives or eyepieces and the only wear item is the bulb.... You can get a heck of a lot of used scope for 1000-1500......

Your trinocular head is common and inexpensive used. One example https://www.ebay.com/itm/124862929642?hash=item1d12691aea:g:OK0AAOSw4X1hIBRd I would buy one of these a new used or new high end condenser and send my scope for a professional cleaning and tune up and use the remaining 2000 Euros for a...

I was under the impression that Reicherts were 28, at least I thought I saw that in a few of their listings. Thanks for the suggestion on the Thorlabs, RAF I new about for Astronomy Kit but didnt think about them for micros.

A mini lathe is in the plans very long term, but.......

Talking here about binocular scopes. Thinking that the answers I am going to get are going to be similar to cameras the The late 60s to the early 80s.... when there was still QC and plastic wasn't a preferred material.... A following is what objectives from that time are still sound by today's stand...

SO I had long ago won an auction for a pair of YS2s.... now that close to a month later they arrived, I can see that my post was possibly the dumbest ever made here..... but it was a learning experience....

Shockingly having trouble finding non Ebay sources for Objective adapters. I would like to find 30 to 25, 26 to 25,, 28 to 2,5, and 27 to 25.....So far what I have ordered from China are RMS to 25.... Ideally I would find the same sizes going to RMS. Am I just looking for something not made/ Examble...

I dable in old cameras and one place that I work with has some old Nikon YS2s.... I bought them (2) about a month ago. they finally showed up. I will say this the condenser in the YS2 a basic Abbey is better than the Abbey in my Ecliplse The Eclipse has a plastic field lens and the prior owner got c...

Thanks for the reply Coming from Astronomy where the EPs are important I still made the very rookie mistake of comparing them. I decided on my micro adventure i was going to pick up a couple of diferent scopes and see which one worked best for me. This one came is coming for a pretty good price assu...

Curious as to what this axioskop EL-EINSATZ is. It looks like its a fluorescence unit with no condensor and a pretty / really good set of EPs?

I may have found cheap Nikon Phase objectives plus Nikon Phase rings will post back in a few days if it works out. On Scopes thanks for the advice...... Interesting to hear Leica ""May"" still be a bit better. But working in engineering we have lots of problems with our Indian stainless rusting and ...

Thanks for the very thoughtful reply. Would be interesting but probably impossible to know if Nikon has any in plant QC or they just shovel out the door what is produced. I was cleaning the microscopes condenser, the lowest price Abbe and I have to say what a plastic piece of junk, which at this ori...

Thanks any model numbers for the big B&Ls? I would like to keep a left eye out for them. Ebaying didn't reveal anything spectacularly large. Having been into astronomy and photography for 40+ years I have a rather severe allergic reaction to Chinese Designed and Chinese Manufactured Optics. Less so ...

Curious as to the difference between the quality of say an Amscope Phase Kit versus say a Native Nikon Kit for my Elipse. In astronomy, I would say you have an 80/20 or 70/30 rule where you would get 80 percent of the result for 20 percent of the cost. Curious here about phase and other techniques.....

THanks for the suggestion on the Optiphots. I will pull the system diagram and figure out what works.....

No the 400 is a very nice scope, what I missed was being able to attach a camera to it. Will have to watch for a trinocular head to come around at a decent price....

I guess in hindight I should have done a better job of specing my desires, photography and being able to take wides..... Also realizing that a 7 slot turrent like the 600 would be a lot nicer than a 5 for the long run. But I feel I got a pretty decent deal on very solid scope. I fired up the old lab...

Kind of what I thought going past the Wild M8 in the timeline, that it probably was diminishing returns.....

I had assumed that a premium scope like the eclipse wouldn't be stock head limited, but it is.... I have to go to a trinocular head to get the 26.5s to work.... so that is definitely a ways down the road, unless there is an affordable chinese trinocular head for it.

Thanks I am going to stay hopefully in the brand and series I have. Just tapped out on cash right now lol.

Ok, true noob question, I fully understand I wont have phase till I get (save up for) a phase condenser), but is there any issue using a phase objective with an ABBE condenser for normal viewing. Will the phase objective be ""less good"" than a tradition brightfield objective? I have the potential o...