Joining from Argentina
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2023 8:19 pm
Hello!
I'm joining after several months of watching Oliver's videos and reading the forum.
I've always had a fascination with optical instruments and vintage stuff, and over the past year I've acquired a few old microscopes. The first was what used to be an Olympus ECETr I believe, but the illuminator and/or mirror were missing when I got it. I've used it with a flash light a few times to try it out.
This one has the trinocular head, so I hope to use it for photography and videos.
I plan on either adapting a new mirror to it, or making a new basic illuminator for it.
I then found a Leitz with fungus on the objectives and eyepieces, but it was only a few bucks so I bought it. Maybe I can build up a set of lenses for it.
Recently though, I bought a complete Carl Zeiss Jena Lg which is in pretty good condition. I'll be posting in the collectors forum regarding it's dating (since I still can't decide whether it's pre or post WWII), and about some operating and disassembly instructions.
Regarding the observing aspect I'd like to try and see diatoms, and see if I can got through the process of cleaning the samples etc. Will have to read up some more.
Thanks for the add, and I hope to see you in the forums.
Christian
I'm joining after several months of watching Oliver's videos and reading the forum.
I've always had a fascination with optical instruments and vintage stuff, and over the past year I've acquired a few old microscopes. The first was what used to be an Olympus ECETr I believe, but the illuminator and/or mirror were missing when I got it. I've used it with a flash light a few times to try it out.
This one has the trinocular head, so I hope to use it for photography and videos.
I plan on either adapting a new mirror to it, or making a new basic illuminator for it.
I then found a Leitz with fungus on the objectives and eyepieces, but it was only a few bucks so I bought it. Maybe I can build up a set of lenses for it.
Recently though, I bought a complete Carl Zeiss Jena Lg which is in pretty good condition. I'll be posting in the collectors forum regarding it's dating (since I still can't decide whether it's pre or post WWII), and about some operating and disassembly instructions.
Regarding the observing aspect I'd like to try and see diatoms, and see if I can got through the process of cleaning the samples etc. Will have to read up some more.
Thanks for the add, and I hope to see you in the forums.
Christian