Re: LOMO compensating optics
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 9:33 pm
Last night I found some beautiful needle shaped (with flared ends) diatoms in a new pond sample, decided to do a comparison of the LOMO 40x Plan Apo objective with K10x/18 eyepieces on the LOMO L-2-2 stand against the Olympus BH2 with 40x DPLAN objective.
The Olympus setup gave a nice view but with a fair bit of false color around the shell and in the oil droplets inside the diatom.
The LOMO setup gave a nice view with practically no false color in the same areas. Same slide, same diatom. I was very pleased with this result. This was bright field illumination, I did not attempt oblique or anything else.
It might not be as good as it could be if I had all the properly matched parts, but I'm going to call it good, at least for now. If I can get any decent afocal photos I'll put them up.
CE
The Olympus setup gave a nice view but with a fair bit of false color around the shell and in the oil droplets inside the diatom.
The LOMO setup gave a nice view with practically no false color in the same areas. Same slide, same diatom. I was very pleased with this result. This was bright field illumination, I did not attempt oblique or anything else.
It might not be as good as it could be if I had all the properly matched parts, but I'm going to call it good, at least for now. If I can get any decent afocal photos I'll put them up.
CE