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- Mon Dec 18, 2023 8:36 am
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: Need help B&L Lenses
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12999
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: 12999
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: 14359
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: 4408
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: 14359
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: 4408
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: 14359
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: 12999
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: 8716
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: 8716
Re: Epistar microscopes
Oddly I think Nikon (?) used a similar cable plus which is what I was thinking of.
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 5:56 am
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: Need help B&L Lenses
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12999
Re: Need help B&L Lenses
I am pretty sure those would have accepted eyecups, which might have been lost or cracked.
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 5:55 am
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: Epistar microscopes
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8716
Re: Epistar microscopes
Yeah, that's an odd standard meant for a particular power supply (presumably ao you din't accidentally plug it into the wrong one).
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 9:51 pm
- Forum: Beginner's corner
- Topic: Olympus S plan vs S plan APO for DIC
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1538
Re: Olympus S plan vs S plan APO for DIC
If you are serious about wanting DIC it's important to be flexible. Rather than building a particular system and hoping you find the right DIC set you will probably have a lot more luck (and probably spend a lot less) casting a wider net and finding a dic system, any dic system, to build the rest ar...
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 12:13 am
- Forum: Camera systems and imaging
- Topic: OM1 Objective adapter
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7791
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 12:12 am
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: Need help B&L Lenses
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12999
Re: Need help B&L Lenses
Just some random eyepieces. Not sure who used 33mm ones, some sort of dinosaur for sure.
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 12:10 am
- Forum: Microscopy accessories
- Topic: Stages for Stereo microscope
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3677
Re: Stages for Stereo microscope
You can use a donut magnet and a metal ball or one of these magnetic phone mounts too. https://a.co/d/bH6Rwat
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 6:43 pm
- Forum: Camera systems and imaging
- Topic: OM1 Objective adapter
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7791
Re: OM1 Objective adapter
Are you looking to just put an objective directly on your camera? There isn't a single adapter, you need variable spacers or a bellows to go between your camera and the objective. These are modular bits and fairly inexpensive. For aps-c I would use m42 spacers and helicoids, but it may cause issues ...
- Wed Dec 13, 2023 8:05 pm
- Forum: Beginner's corner
- Topic: Stage Plate, Frosted or Clear?
- Replies: 13
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Re: Stage Plate, Frosted or Clear?
It depends if you have a normal illuminated base or a brightfield/darkfield base. Darkfield won't work with a frosted plate.
- Wed Dec 13, 2023 6:56 pm
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: SMZ-10 OPTICAL AXIS COLLIMATOR
- Replies: 27
- Views: 22413
Re: SMZ-10 OPTICAL AXIS COLLIMATOR
Well overall I'd say you'vd done something quite remarkable. Again thanks for all the detail, it was a fun read. I hope you enjoy the scope!
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 10:38 pm
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: SMZ-10 OPTICAL AXIS COLLIMATOR
- Replies: 27
- Views: 22413
Re: SMZ-10 OPTICAL AXIS COLLIMATOR
It's fascinating, though I was a bit confused by H. Had aome of the lenses been cleaned and then put back in backwards?
Should be very helpful for anyone else taking the same path in the future.
Should be very helpful for anyone else taking the same path in the future.
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 6:27 pm
- Forum: Beginner's corner
- Topic: Nikon CFWA vs. CFWE eyepieces?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1759
Re: Nikon CFWA vs. CFWE eyepieces?
E is for educational or economical. They're the budget model either way, smaller field of view and probably worse color correcrion. I am not familiar with cfwa eyepieces though. The CFW and CFWNs are the higher end options, and they did have one rarer type with premium cllor correction. Personally I...
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 5:56 am
- Forum: Camera systems and imaging
- Topic: [Beginner] Photography with Nikon SMZ-U
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4793
Re: [Beginner] Photography with Nikon SMZ-U
All you need is a 38mm to m42 adapter
Like https://www.ebay.com/itm/274696367794
And a flat m42 to t mount adapter
https://www.ebay.com/itm/155753235925
Like https://www.ebay.com/itm/274696367794
And a flat m42 to t mount adapter
https://www.ebay.com/itm/155753235925
- Sun Dec 10, 2023 11:14 pm
- Forum: Camera systems and imaging
- Topic: [Beginner] Photography with Nikon SMZ-U
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4793
Re: [Beginner] Photography with Nikon SMZ-U
When you say you can't get the sensor in the right spot, you mean to be parfocal with the eyepieces correct? Because as you mentioned, it positions the sensor too "far away" to be parfocal. Yes, exactly. And of course if you just refocus to move the image circle knto the sensor you theoretically ar...
- Sun Dec 10, 2023 8:31 pm
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: SMZ-10 OPTICAL AXIS COLLIMATOR
- Replies: 27
- Views: 22413
Re: SMZ-10 OPTICAL AXIS COLLIMATOR
Could you elabroate a bit on that? I'm very happy you got it to work!
- Sun Dec 10, 2023 8:06 pm
- Forum: Camera systems and imaging
- Topic: [Beginner] Photography with Nikon SMZ-U
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4793
Re: [Beginner] Photography with Nikon SMZ-U
It comes down to two things: how big the image circle is and where it's positioned. By default the smz-u puts out an image that's a bit over 27mm in diameter, which is actually larger than it was specced for. If you put an aps-c sensor with a ~27mm diagonal right on the image you get a nice image th...
- Sun Dec 10, 2023 6:51 am
- Forum: Beginner's corner
- Topic: Good Stereo Microscope?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 23426
Re: Good Stereo Microscope?
The Nikon standard photography setup does make it annoying to use a dslr via direct projection since the flange focal distance is just a bit too long. There are workarounds but nothing beats buying two cheap mechanical adapters and just having it work.
- Sun Dec 10, 2023 1:38 am
- Forum: Camera systems and imaging
- Topic: [Beginner] Photography with Nikon SMZ-U
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4793
Re: [Beginner] Photography with Nikon SMZ-U
How much do you want to spend? One easy solution is to get an aps-c mirrorless camera and directly adapt it to the photo port with no intermediate optics.
- Sun Dec 10, 2023 1:37 am
- Forum: Beginner's corner
- Topic: Good Stereo Microscope?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 23426
Re: Good Stereo Microscope?
It is fortunately quite easy with the SMZ-U. Almost any kind of camera can be accomodated.
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 12:19 am
- Forum: Beginner's corner
- Topic: Good Stereo Microscope?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 23426
Re: Good Stereo Microscope?
Congratulations! I think you will enjoy it a lot. Stage plate replacements aren't too hard to find, even on amazon sometimes iirc. The mirror should also be fairly easy to fix.
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 7:16 am
- Forum: Home-made microscope adaptations
- Topic: Working in an "universal condenser" for Nikon Optiphot
- Replies: 82
- Views: 78044
Re: Working in an "universal condenser" for Nikon Optiphot
Shading like that is common with slightly mismatched DIC prisms, isn't it?