billben74 wrote:Congratulations mrsonchus!
Will be all eyes as I have been considering a switch to finite system main brand from chinese 'scope.
I will be very interested to see what you think as this will help inform me (and no doubt many others who no doubt contemplate this switch).
Hi Bill, thanks old chap. Exciting times ahead in the lab! I must say that my Chinese 'SP200' from Brunel gives me beautifully crisp and bright images, but I find the infinity-optics restrictive in that additional objectives, parts, condensers etc seem very hard to not only come across and afford, but to be confident that they will all form a matching optical system. I know so little about infinity systems, as it seems do most purveyors of microscope parts.
Also there's the little phase-contrast 'scope I bought some time back (a Swift), the sheer
quality of manufacture, immediately apparent when the course/fine focus are used, was a real eye-opener for me. It's overall build quality, sturdiness and smoothness of operation showed me that older instruments are in these respects definitely (far) superior to the brand-new Chinese 'scopes, although these do perform, in my experience at least of the 'SP200' very well - they don't have than sheer quality of use that the Swift for example has - nowhere even close.....
We shall soon see!
