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Wow, 15x/1.2 is astonishing!

Wysiwyg is difficult on a stereo because the true 3d view will always look better than the single 2d image the camera gets.
The smz-u is an excellent stereo and often a crazy value.

Here's an odd speck of history. Years back i was researching the Bausch and Lomb/Cambridge/Leica Monozoom 7, and in trying to find the exact year it was released (1985?) I found a much older reference to a 'Monozoom 4' in 1979 in a German laser journal. The google preview was limited but I managed t...

That is annoying I agree. It's an acceptor but not a donor.

We're in trouble online. Look at this user above, aaronramsdale. All his posts are fairly relevant to a given thread, almost natural, but if you read through them you start to get that chat-gpt stink off of them. And as expected there are links hidden in his posts. This is so much more sophisticated...

Yeah, m60x1, just like ol' grandpappy (the M8). It's very cool that they revived that standard--I wonder if the plan 1x design is a direct descendant too.
Of course you can also directly mount a Zeiss SteReo objective on it too same thread (if they didn't cost a million skillion dollars).

I' surprised to see it listed as 3ph1. I was sure it was just m50x1. They did use 3ph1 on the z swries though.

It isn't threaded--it has a bayonet mount. If it's anywhere close to 300 it would be a total steal, though I suspect it's a bit more.

The m50/60/80 do have an m60 thread but the nikons do not, they're m58x0.75. Iirc adapting one of the clone plan 1xes on a wild m8 worked but vignetted a bit. That said my adapter made it sit lower than ideal.

Almost nobody officially specs objectives for ultrawide coverage at high magnifications, though some of them nevertheless deliver a good image outside their specced area (others show serious image degradation even within their spec). Your options would be to try a shorter focal length tube lens and ...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/186045045314 This lens has proven to be an excellent shorter focal length tube lens, and this listing is from a trusted community member. You'd need to do some adapting to make it work and the question of whether your objectives can cover that wider area is an open one, but ...

Yeah, this lens can be improved on by replacing with a more recent equivalent. Really the special part of the smz-10 is the head, if that's in good shape putting it on a newer smz series body or one of the Chinese clones would be an improvement.

It's nuts, you could assemble an infinity Nikon system with wider fields and better photography potential for less.

It'll be interesting to see if you can push it that far. As is if my calculations are right you are pretty close to using the full rated image circle of the better objectives but they can often be pushed a bit further.

Olympus bh2 eyepieces apply corrections that are needed for olympus objectives. Mitutoyo objectives need no further corrections so the nfk eyepiece will degrade the image.

It could be. You might have more luck getting them from a known vender like edmund optics. Sometimes they're available used.

Hi, scarodactyle,...you assume a seller is oblivious to the market said seller pitches items for sale in? So said seller , when offering items for sale 'locally, and over seas'...this seller can be silent on 'trap door fees beyond sellers control'? Absolutely. Every country has their own import dut...

The vendor who locked you ( micropunter) into this cascade of added fees...that vendor should have honestly beforehand noted the added fees. This a total abuse of seller platforms. Nah, this is the buyer paying his taxes, not a fee the seller gets. The seller has no control over what duties the des...

To be honest I don't remember exactly how I had it set up--I think I swapped the head to a nikon one for direct projection. Nikon photo eyepieces are neutrally corrected. The Pl 2.5x is common but not very good because it adds aberrations of its own to the image. The later Pl 2.5xa is better, as is ...

It works fine, but you'll need tp swap out the olympus eyepieces for nikons or (best) generic 10x/22s, and not use the nfk photo eyepiece. I ended up direct projecting onto aps-c but the tube lens in the illuminator made the extreme corners mushy. You could probably use a Nikon photo eyepiece to get...

In my experience shipping from the US my single biggest source of trouble is UK customs. Very inconsistent, often fail to contact customers about owed duties and just send the package back on the slow boat.

They are achromats, not plan, though planarity improves as you zoom in.
The reference focal length for an M8 is 100mm, so a 150mm givez 0.67x magnification, 200mm gives 0.5x etc.

Meiji makes good scopes, you should have a lot of fun with it.

Did you peel the protective coating off the film?

There are very good chinese copies. I got an smz 745t clone along with a 2x aux that is quite good.

It might cause issues in some heads if they have e.g. prisms that interact with polarized light. In that case you might want to use a circular polarizer with the wave plate side oriented up.

It is my understanding that the Wild 404207 eyepiece tube plus 10x/21 photo eyepiece could be substituted by a Leitz Tube TL 160mm plus a Leitz Periplan 10x18 lens ) Mechanically yes, but optically the results would be poor. Wild stereo eyepieces are essentially neutral while Wild/Leitz compound ey...

I wouldn't expect the olympus objectives to be so far off spec. Even the generic uplanapo seems like it shouldn't be that far off, I am pretty sure they are meant as a drop in replacement for an Olympus. Did you make sure the tube lens is focused at infinity?

From what I understand micro 4/3 pairs well with the 3.3x/mtv3 combo (giving net 1.1ishx magnification).

Most of them aren't great, but it can be really nice for overviews.