Olympus condenser for inverted microscopes (e.g. IX50)

[shahriar222]

Dear All
I am new to the forum and am desperately looking for help:

I have an Olympus IX50 with an IX-ULWCD condenser. I would like to do DIC microscopy. What I don't get is why Olympus says DIC with IX50 (or IX70) is only possible with IX-LWUCD condensers but not with IX-ULWCD. I have not yet been able to find that info.

Any ideas would be highly appreciated.

Thank you
Shahriar

[microb]

For info on IX, you might also try the Facebook Olympus group.

But the working distance/NA is rather different. So the angle of the divergent Nomarski condenser prism light would be different and probably not match the other side. Have you tried it?