Hello everybody
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2019 4:00 pm
I just joined the forum and I'm happy to be here. It looks very interesting and I'm sure I will learn a lot because I don't have the level of expertise that some of the members here exhibit. I'll contribute what I can.
I got interested in microscopes when I was about 10 and my parents bought me an AC Gilbert Microscope kit. At 50x to 100x you could actually see an image and I was blown away when I started looking at things around the house and trying the experiments in the instruction booklet. A few years later, they bought me a Monolux scope that was a lot better, but still crude by any standard. I used that scope for decades looking at one celled organisms, algae, insects etc.
A few years ago, I discovered eBay and started buying used equipment and restoring old scopes. I've got 2 AO Series 10 microscopes, one setup for darkfield and a B&L Flatfield Dynoptic. I particularly like the Dynoptic - the image is sharp over the entire field of view.
I hope to pick up some tips on slide preparation. I still like to restore old scopes - I'm sure I'll pick up some tips there as well.
Once again, glad to be here.
Vince
I got interested in microscopes when I was about 10 and my parents bought me an AC Gilbert Microscope kit. At 50x to 100x you could actually see an image and I was blown away when I started looking at things around the house and trying the experiments in the instruction booklet. A few years later, they bought me a Monolux scope that was a lot better, but still crude by any standard. I used that scope for decades looking at one celled organisms, algae, insects etc.
A few years ago, I discovered eBay and started buying used equipment and restoring old scopes. I've got 2 AO Series 10 microscopes, one setup for darkfield and a B&L Flatfield Dynoptic. I particularly like the Dynoptic - the image is sharp over the entire field of view.
I hope to pick up some tips on slide preparation. I still like to restore old scopes - I'm sure I'll pick up some tips there as well.
Once again, glad to be here.
Vince