My microscope is a fairly standard, Chinese, stereo-zoom, device. It is essentially an industrial inspection microscope on a boom stand. Although not typical for biologic applications the boom stand provides a lot of flexibility to view objects of different sizes.
The microscope came with a LED ring light, but I did not like how the LEDs reflected on shiny samples. It also did not work well when working close with the 2X barlow. I have switched to using a dual-head LED illuminator. Careful positioning of the lights and adjusting camera parameters is critical to getting decent images. I have a bottom light on the way.
For photography I have an inexpensive 5MP c-mount camera connected to an older Samsung tablet PC. Currently I am just using the tablet display which is a limitation. Next step, an external display.
My stereo setup
My stereo setup
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Re: My stereo setup
Nice setup Ken.
For stereo microscopes and optimum lighting, I suggest one of the four-zones LED ring lights like this one:
https://www.amscope.com/144-led-lightin ... apter.html
It's very versatile and you can have different illumination angles to eliminate unwanted reflections and better observation possibilities.
For stereo microscopes and optimum lighting, I suggest one of the four-zones LED ring lights like this one:
https://www.amscope.com/144-led-lightin ... apter.html
It's very versatile and you can have different illumination angles to eliminate unwanted reflections and better observation possibilities.
Daruosh.
Re: My stereo setup
Very nice clean set-up. I agree the 4 zone LED assist in removing the reflection that occurs on shiny specimens. I also use a halogen twin pipe fiberoptic illuminator and a halogen ring light as I prefer the color spectrum at times over the LED. I recently acquired an SX2-ILLT led illuminated base which offers brightfield, oblique and darkfield illumination. I had wanted one for quite some time and came across a great deal. I still enjoy using the IKEA LED lamps, very cheap and versatile.