Yes, the working distance range is part of the spec, though chinese suppliers don't always provide that information.
A good alternstive is a dual gooseneck 100w halogen illuminator or modern LED equivalent. The poseable arms are nice for directing light where it's needed.
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- Wed Jan 10, 2024 7:41 pm
- Forum: Beginner's corner
- Topic: How to select lighting? [SMZ-U]
- Replies: 5
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- Wed Jan 10, 2024 5:48 am
- Forum: Illumination Techniques
- Topic: Brightfield cube in U-RFAA (Olympus), compatible with DICR?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5931
Re: Brightfield cube in U-RFAA (Olympus), compatible with DICR?
But to follow up on the last point you'll likely get acceptable to good results with a wider variety of objectives than you'd expect.
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 5:07 pm
- Forum: Camera systems and imaging
- Topic: Camera sensor size to see bigger F.O.V.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11161
Re: Camera sensor size to see bigger F.O.V.
Mu purpose is seeing bigger field of view. For example when scanning 15mmx15mm area, I have to take 650 photos (0.75mm x 0.55 mm). If I see bigger area for example (like 0.85mm x 0.75mm) I need less image and as a result less time to scan a tissue Of course, but if you're stitching the edge/corner ...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 3:10 am
- Forum: Beginner's corner
- Topic: SMZ-U why multiple ports?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6073
Re: SMZ-U why multiple ports?
Back in the day film type was a major consideration as well. Having two cameras would allow you to have multiple options on that front. Having access to the infinity image on the aide port allows for adapters using shorter or longer tube lenses rather than a tube lens plus a reducing or expanding le...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 7:19 pm
- Forum: Camera systems and imaging
- Topic: Camera sensor size to see bigger F.O.V.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11161
Re: Camera sensor size to see bigger F.O.V.
I don't know what your exact needs are. There may be vignetting from the 0.35x adapter (most likely) or from the objective. Direct projection onto full frame with a suitablr tube lens might have better odds of success (since you'd not have any reducing optics in the light path) but you'll definitely...
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 6:21 pm
- Forum: Camera systems and imaging
- Topic: Camera sensor size to see bigger F.O.V.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11161
Re: Camera sensor size to see bigger F.O.V.
That'd be asking for a 37mm field number from your objective (13mm sensor diagonal * 1/0.35). The adapter may not even project an image big enough to cover a sensor that size. There's a chance your objective will cover it though, some Olympus objectives can cover full frame sensors with direct proje...
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 10:34 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Advices to improve my pictures
- Replies: 11
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Re: Advices to improve my pictures
Great job! I would not mess with cleaning, your photos aren't showing major signs of lowered contrast which is what you'd expect from dirty elements. I'd say your equipment is dialled in well enough--now the fun bit, finding subjects and fine tuning your lighting and editing skills.
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 7:57 pm
- Forum: Beginner's corner
- Topic: What is the diference beetween a Splan Apo and Neo Splan NIC??
- Replies: 11
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Re: What is the diference beetween a Splan Apo and Neo Splan NIC??
The neo splans are meant for looking at opaque subjects with nothing transparent on top of them. That matters less at lower magnifications, but at higher magnifications you will get bad results looking at pond life. In terms of optical quality, when set up with the correct optics (an extra lens is n...
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 8:16 pm
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: Usin Mitutoyo objective on Olympus BHMJ
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2608
Re: Usin Mitutoyo objective on Olympus BHMJ
https://www.ebay.com/itm/273482756677
Note IXm assuming you don't have an ultrawide head.
Note IXm assuming you don't have an ultrawide head.
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 1:29 am
- Forum: Beginner's corner
- Topic: Nikon SMZ-U: How to clean Zoom Body
- Replies: 2
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Re: Nikon SMZ-U: How to clean Zoom Body
You have to pull the rubber caps off the knobs, loosen the set screw this reveals, removd the knobs and then you can remove the bolts holding the shell on. The shell is split down the middle and each half can be slipped off with the knobs and bolts removed. The zoom body has teo independent light pa...
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 1:26 am
- Forum: Home-made microscope adaptations
- Topic: Dichromatic Illumination?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 118802
Re: Dichromatic Illumination?
Why use PWM rather than a constant current driver? So I can alter the degree of chromicity between the two coloured LEDs; offering a variable colour selection between the two without altering the degree of required illumination. I'd think you could do the same with constant current since they can v...
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 7:21 pm
- Forum: Home-made microscope adaptations
- Topic: Dichromatic Illumination?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 118802
Re: Dichromatic Illumination?
Why use PWM rather than a constant current driver?
- Sat Dec 23, 2023 5:39 am
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: Bausch & Lomb 240 aerial survey/photogrammetry zoom scope?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3633
Re: Bausch & Lomb 240 aerial survey/photogrammetry zoom scope?
The 500 is neat. I got one cheap but it's so bulky and specific that I have not actually set it up. The higher mag objectives are also very short wd.
- Sat Dec 23, 2023 12:01 am
- Forum: Beginner's corner
- Topic: seeing double images
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4700
Re: seeing double images
Sometimes you get a slightly different field of view in each eyepiece l, which naturally doesn't line up. In others the fov might be the same in each and everything theoretically fine but converging them is still difficult or uncomfortable. Don't ask me why but this will likely vary from head to hea...
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 4:29 am
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: Thinking about buying a Neophot 21, need information about it
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6178
Re: Thinking about buying a Neophot 21, need information about it
Yes. That type of knurling is an especially common touch on metallurgical objectives.
The -C means it requires compensating optics (tube lens/eyepieces not sure which), unlike -A marked objectives.
The -C means it requires compensating optics (tube lens/eyepieces not sure which), unlike -A marked objectives.
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 3:58 am
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: Epistar microscopes
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8621
Re: Epistar microscopes
If you want best performance these aren't the best approach. You'll need to use a single die emitter on a heat sink positioned about where the halogen filament was. It is a lot more involved though.
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:36 pm
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: Thoughts on these microscopes for sale on Facebook appreciated
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7846
Re: Thoughts on these microscopes for sale on Facebook appreciated
Ooooh good eye! Buy buy buy buy buy
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 4:50 pm
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: Thoughts on these microscopes for sale on Facebook appreciated
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7846
Re: Thoughts on these microscopes for sale on Facebook appreciated
That's a hoffman modulation contrast condenser, not DIC. Not sure how popular they are.
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 8:07 pm
- Forum: For forum members who want to buy and sell equipment
- Topic: FS Carl Zeiss slit lamp marked 14908 &14941
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2501
Re: FS Carl Zeiss boom stereo marked 14908 &14941
Looks like a slit lamp.
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 6:34 pm
- Forum: My microscope
- Topic: Olympus BH2 phototube
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3540
Re: Olympus BH2 phototube
Very nice! I like dealcorner.
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 8:36 am
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: Need help B&L Lenses
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12931
Re: Need help B&L Lenses
I have one of the heads with the gigantic looking eyetubes. Very odd design, and unfortunately thoroughly molded. Iirc there are a lot of prisms in that head, I'll have to pull it off the shelf and have a look.
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 5:20 am
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: Need help B&L Lenses
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12931
Re: Need help B&L Lenses
None of these are b&l. The recon system did have special aux lenses but they are all branded and don't look like this. The special 2x has a long snoot, presumably to make it parfocal since it had an objective slider.
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 6:41 pm
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: Should I avoid vintage Leitz Scopes?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 14279
Re: Should I avoid vintage Leitz Scopes?
What brands beside of Nikon are on the list? Olympus (the slight 180 vs 200mm difference isn't a big deal), Mitutoyo and the fleet of clones and knockoffs made by other companies, plus specialty objectives like those by Thorlabs or Optem. I have used all of these options on my Nikon scope at one po...
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 10:06 am
- Forum: My microscope
- Topic: SW380T light issue X40 trinocular tube
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4041
Re: SW380T light issue X40 trinocular tube
Good to isolate it to the trinocular tube. You need to look down the tube without the eyepiece to see where the flare is coming from. Non-image-forming light is being reflected from outside the field back into your viewing area.
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 9:45 am
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: Should I avoid vintage Leitz Scopes?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 14279
Re: Should I avoid vintage Leitz Scopes?
Microscope objectives from different brand are not interchangeable in general. Finite ones need matching correction eye-pieces and infinite ones need matching correction tube lenses. You never get the best quality by mixing brands. Only some brands of infinity corrected lenses need matching tube le...
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 5:24 am
- Forum: My microscope
- Topic: SW380T light issue X40 trinocular tube
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4041
Re: SW380T light issue X40 trinocular tube
It certainly looks like flare. Have tou taken out your camera and looked down the camera tube with your eye? If you see circular reflections around the image it's probably the aource of your issue.
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 3:03 am
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: Should I avoid vintage Leitz Scopes?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 14279
Re: Should I avoid vintage Leitz Scopes?
No brands from the finite era are fully interchangeable. Unless you're doing something weird or specific you ahouldn't have too much trouble filling a nosepiece with objectives that are the correct type or probably close enough.
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 3:01 am
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: Need help B&L Lenses
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12931
Re: Need help B&L Lenses
Show pics please.
This sort of mix and match happens all the time in lans. Stuff is always getting moved and consolidated.
This sort of mix and match happens all the time in lans. Stuff is always getting moved and consolidated.
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 3:00 am
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: Epistar microscopes
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8621
Re: Epistar microscopes
Halogen bulbs should still be cheap if sourced right but LED replacements are doable. I use a CREE x-pl led in my epi illuminator and it's worked great for me. But it will take some careful DIYing, there aren't great drop in replacements.
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 7:51 am
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: Epistar microscopes
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8621
Re: Epistar microscopes
Oddly I think Nikon (?) used a similar cable plus which is what I was thinking of.