My brand new Zeiss Primo Star

[redflanker]

I just sold my Olympus CX31 with a satisfactory price, After that I bought a Zeiss Primo Star very soon. I thought the Primo star and CX31 almost of the same level. but new is better ,isn't it?

[PeteM]

Nice looking scope. I believe Zeiss has those made for them by Motic.

[75RR]

Incredibly bright and shiny. I would be tempted to wear white gloves if that were mine. :)

[SutherlandDesmids]

Herr Zeiss und Gesellschaft seem to have entered into the spirit of the season with Christmas lights on their microscopes !

Joking aside, do the lights have a function? Some sort of integrated brightness display, akin to the Optiphot 66 I imagine.

Yours is a beautiful microscope aesthetically, one of the rare graceful instruments (post-Lister-limb) but the temptation to expunge every last fingerprint would soon eat away at my working time! If you can resist the temptation to polish it to death, I am sure it will give you long years of fine service. I imagine new Zeiss would not be prone to delamination?

I don't think I've ever seen such a phase arrangement before -- I presume the annuli are interchanged by the movable slider, but I can see no obvious mechanism of actually aligning the annuli as opposed to merely roughly coinciding them horizontally. The ring immediately above evidently has some function pertaining to phase-contrast.

In all sincerity, I'd be interested to know how it works in practice and theory.

[75RR]

Joking aside, do the lights have a function?

They are linked to the illumination, as such they indicate the output.
Have heard that it is a design feature which is apparently useful in the classroom, as it lets the science teacher see the illumination setting at a glance.

[MichaelG.]

The whole system looks very 'well thought out'
https://www.zeiss.com/microscopy/int/pr ... -star.html

MichaelG.