American Optical reflected DIC info?
American Optical reflected DIC info?
Anyone have a manual or small instruction booklet for the American Optical reflected DIC attachment? I came into one a few days ago, and while it's mostly self explanatory, it'd be nice to see the various parts enumerated and see what each of the three turret/,analyzer stops is for (1 polarizer, 1 open, 1 unknown).
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Re: American Optical reflected DIC info?
There is a brochure on Neeley's site. Pretty spartan covering both transmitted and reflected.
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Yep - read through it a while ago. Was hoping for more of a reference manual.
I can contribute a little bit of knowledge of my own now. The nosepiece dovetail has four screws in it. Removing the dovetail allows for access to the prism holder. Again, if you remove four screws, you can access the prism/slider. This looks like
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aD2V8B ... p=drivesdk
and
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aJrteG ... p=drivesdk
The prism slider itself says "License Anvar Cat 2554", which is the catalog number for the 40x prism. Not sure what "Anvar" means; Google draws blanks for me. Maybe Google Lens will help.
I can contribute a little bit of knowledge of my own now. The nosepiece dovetail has four screws in it. Removing the dovetail allows for access to the prism holder. Again, if you remove four screws, you can access the prism/slider. This looks like
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aD2V8B ... p=drivesdk
and
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aJrteG ... p=drivesdk
The prism slider itself says "License Anvar Cat 2554", which is the catalog number for the 40x prism. Not sure what "Anvar" means; Google draws blanks for me. Maybe Google Lens will help.
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Re: American Optical reflected DIC info?
maybe message wbutter. he used to be a dealer.
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Re: American Optical reflected DIC info?
User Microworldofgems has a complete set and has published some amazing pictures from it.
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Stephen, were all or most of his images taken with the AO setup? If so, glad to see them put to such amazing use.
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Re: American Optical reflected DIC info?
His more recent ones are mostly with his Zeiss but he did a ton on the AO too.