One Time Magnification Eyepeice

[MicroscopyLearning]

Hello. Most eyepieces I find are usually 10 times or 25 times. Is there a way to get one that has no magnification and only gets in focus whatever is coming out of the objective. I would like to know if this exists.

[Scarodactyl]

No, not for viewing anyway. It would be totally unusable. There are 1x focal eyepieces for goingg direct onto a camera sensor but they aren't usable to the eye.

[MichaelG.]

If you set-up a camera lens [or even something simpler] to give 1:1 reproduction, then it would relay the primary image from its plane to somewhere beyond the tube … and also invert it.

You could then observe this on a small screen … but I doubt it would be particularly useful.

MichaelG.

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This might serve as a useful optics ‘refresher’ : https://g3ynh.info/photography/articles/opt_mag.html

[Chas]

If you want to look at larger items on the stage then there are some new Chinese 1x and 2x objectives on ebay.....this isnt a recomendation
( eyepieces can be bought at 5x....old ones seemed to be 6x ).

[Chas]

Microscopes have became more 'trapped' over time ..but with older stands (think drawtube /horseshoe stand) it is quite possible to get wider fields of view:
Poor phone pics, through the eyepiece, but just to give a sense of what you can get:

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[On the objective changer of a Watson Service, I think ]

Indeed that was a purpose for the RMS thread at the bottom end of a drawtube

Or indeed this...not the right objective ..it is a DIN objective ..stretched on the rack..as it were:

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