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@Hobbyst46, Good ideas. I will look into that. We do use a protective nose cone over the objective when we are imaging. These objectives do cost a fortune! I am including a photo of the cuvette on the microscope, as well as my attempt to make on of polycarbonate cuvette showing the clouding. Acrylic...

Thank you everybody. @Scarodactyl,I do like the idea of the mini forge with the attached microscope- I don't know if I would ever figure out how to use it, but it would be fun to try. I've never used the glass water- interesting. This is for the light sheet microscope. The proper containers are larg...

Anybody have any experience fusing microscope slides together to make a little glass box, like a mini-aquarium? Can't glue it together because it will have strong solvents inside that will destroy adhesives or sealer. There are places that will custom-manufacture something like this, but the cost is...

I know this in an ongoing discussion. I remember my professor in college debating which microscope to buy for his children, whether children need less magnification than adults. Everyone is making valid points. I had four kids, all grown up now. We had a Meiji Stereomicroscope in our house. We found...

Ah, the Aperturblendenschieber! (It's sounds much more scientific if it's in German.)
I've never taken mine apart, so it's interesting to see what's inside.
Due to the Box-like shape of the Axiomat, the control knob has to be so far from the light path.
Thanks for taking yours apart!

It was designed to have a beam splitter tube with an eyepiece for focusing and metering. That's not really necessary when using an SLR or video camera because you can focus through the camera. But, the binocular head for the Zeiss Standard fits perfectly on the upper dovetail and can be used for vie...

Thank you for making the generous donation.
As a veteran of the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, I agree that the place for this artifact is in a museum where it can shine as a testament to her esteemed career.

Not many Tessovars nowadays...

Mounted on the Zeiss Stereomicroscope stand.

Dolan-Jenner Fiber light, plus LED light from China.

Mouse teeth on the monitor.

John Denver on the 8-track...

Sold on Ebay!
Cheap...

I have this one. Currently for sale on Ebay. It needs a binocular and light, both easily available. I was using until recently; I'm trying to make some room on the bench. It's very heavy, but that make it very stable. Nice big stage. It has a camera port on the front, and another on the side. Please...

Listed on Ebay:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/254367483710

Tell your friends!

We were having problem at work with stray light getting into our specimens during epifluorescence. We have overhead fluorescent lights in the lab. My homemade adaptation is a wooden box that covers the stage. Made out of fir and plywood, the inside is painted flat-black. The shield on the front is j...

Ok, that’s it. Turn the ASA/DIN inner knob to the right triangle for 35mm and turn to the left white dot for large format. The outer ring adjusts the ASA/DIN up or down to intermediate values. The inner knob turns quite far around. The outer ring just turns up/down two clicks. The Recipr. Knob compe...

OK, Thanks, that helps with some of it. I still don't know how to take a picture. How do I set the ASA/DIN? There are two markings. I'm not sure how far to turn the knob...

Ok, someone must know this... What are the buttons on the MC 63? Shutter speed and Exp. are obvious. What is recipr. ? What is x0,75; x1; x1,5 ? magnification? Then the ASA/DIN ring... There is a white dot, and a white triangle. The inner knob turns and the outer ring turns. There's a diagram of a l...

I agree with microBob. We have eyepieces on several of the microscopes in my lab at work, but we don't use them. We always work through the monitor. Especially with fluorescence. We do still use the eyepieces on the stereomicroscope for procedures on mice. The assistant watches through the monitor t...

Hello from Dallas and Welcome,

When you all get ready for the Houston get-together, let me know. I do get down there from time to time.
Or if you get up to Dallas, stop in and visit.

I'm guessing of the 650 or so Axiomat microscopes that were produced, more than a few ended up in a landfill at the end of their commercial life. I wonder how many are still around? They were originally intended for Biomedical Applications. It turned out they were just too expensive. Some of the pre...

OK, I'm selling one of my project scopes. I've spend some time and money on this, and I really like it, but need to make room on the bench. I stripped two others for parts to make this one. It's a nice inverted microscope, Including a 3.2x and 10x objectives. It has the nice 4x5 film camera on the f...

Well, I bid on it and helped get the price up.

You can find the auxiliary objects on eBay. The lambda and lambda/4 filters. They can be used to tell the direction of the retardation in a polarizing material, along with the conoscopic viewing with the Bertrand lens in place. Using the Bertrand for conoscopic viewing is interesting and it involves...

OK, I like it. Does anyone know what that is sticking out from the intermediate tube above the turret? Any guesses on the objectives or the condenser? Looks like nice stuff!

Here is my Zeiss Axiomat. This is one that I just bought from a lab in Germany. It does reflected light, DIC and POL. Built in cameras for 35mm and 4" x 5". I have a 4-place turret and a 6-place. They use a special series of objectives.They still come up on eBay, and the regular Zeiss infinity objec...

Nice!

OK, Sold.

Interested. I will PM you.

Here is a stereo microscope project that I have been holding onto for quite a while. I have too many other projects so I'm going to let this one go. It's an unnamed brand of Microscope, but appears to be of rather high quality. I am guessing that it is from a Japanese manufacturer. It is from a medi...

Acanthocytes. They are red blood cells.

Greetings from Dallas!

Be sure to post some photos of your finds.

OK, I found another article about looking deep into intact skin with a microscope. This reference is a little more modern. "Multiphoton Microscopy in Neuroscience" Helmchen F, Wang SSH, & Denk W. in Fujimoto JG & Farkas DL; Biomedical Optical Imaging Oxford University Press (2009). Looks pretty intr...