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I really enjoyed that video.. not that I have a Lafeyette. However there is something enjoyable about having a microscope without a condenser. -I spent a lot of my Christmas play-time messing about with a Chinese XSC-06 which looks a bit similar except that it doesn't have those stage-moving screws ...

Judge, it might be that you were thinking of buying a new microscope with your $100. I have little experience of these, but looking online; some of them do not have a fine focus control knob, which I am pretty sure you would miss. Some do not have the standard threading on their objectives (called R...

Hi, slightly mis-aligned binocular heads can be quite tiring (sometimes near-impossible) to look through and there are a lot of difficult to get at surfaces that might need cleaning .. so my advice would be to get an old monocular microscope. Microscopes with an angled eyepiece tube have an extra gl...

Lovely photograph and lighting
I have had a similar gentle but slightly refractive lighting... once... in the past ... I think it was an illuminated card with no condenser.
Any pointers ?

I was trying to do a stack with an immersion lens on a tilted old microscope and came up with this: It is a disk magnet joined to the fine focus knob and with a junior hacksaw blade as the lever... the magnet-hacksaw blade connection acts as a bit of a slip-clutch, so theoretically one can hold the ...

Somehow it brings to mind Callahan's "Tuning into nature" book which was an enjoyable conjecture at the time.
..And Eric Laithwaite...

[The thought was that moth antennae might be very longwave IR recievers]

Microscopes have became more 'trapped' over time ..but with older stands (think drawtube /horseshoe stand) it is quite possible to get wider fields of view: Poor phone pics, through the eyepiece, but just to give a sense of what you can get: 6x on horseshoe stretched.jpg [On the objective changer of...

If you want to look at larger items on the stage then there are some new Chinese 1x and 2x objectives on ebay.....this isnt a recomendation
( eyepieces can be bought at 5x....old ones seemed to be 6x ).

" E Plan - kind of meh. Quite a lot of CA which I'm rather sensitive to. Probably pretty similar to new Chinese plan achromats. I wouldn't invest in them if I wanted to do photography, but totally fine for viewing." Are these the same?... they look pretty similar : https://www.edmundoptics.eu/f/niko...

I dont want to be full of tales of woe.. but Be aware that you might get some lenses that are not parfocal with each other and then you can get very lost and rack the tube the wrong way and crash ..broken slide. Even if they were all perfectly parfocal ..when you put an adapter on, they will cease t...

Hmmm, having caught the front of my camera lens on the eyepeice monkeying about like that in the past I can strongly recommend that you do not even try it handheld.
There is less momentum with a mirrorless ..so maybe not as serious a donk, perhaps.

Maybe the point is that any old microscope is better than none ;-) Here is a cropped pic of a parasitoid inside a thunderflies head.. taken by resting the DSLR camera body on top of a Baker monocular and using the 2/3 Inch objective: Para in thunderfly head 1024.jpg Without a microscope you wouldnt ...

don1357, when it arrives, see if there is a way to unscrew the silver eyepiece tube / the top of the microscope's main tube ... With a microscope with a shorter main-tube, as yours looks to be, it is possible to set your camera's sensor in roughly the same place as the image would be picked up by th...

That is quite an improvement, not that the other was poor! I got out the new Chinese plan lenses,I mentioned, which had vibrant chromatics .. (green edges when focused above, red focused below) ... the 40x Plan was actually rather clearer than the 40x Watson Parachromatic on my newer Watson Service ...

Nice.. I should perhaps have mentioned that now that I have the original objectives clean, they are back on the microscope:-) The benefit of the Nikon objectives and their coating/design shows up when the lighting is primarily coming from the sides (for example, when photographing something opaque.....

Cool. To help you get your bearings: What you think of as 1:1 Macro would equate to 10x magnification in microscope-speak (created by, say, a 1x objective and a 10x eyepiece) this is an 'order of magnitude' approximation Again, in order of magnitudes, the chinese DSLR eyepiece-adapters behave like ~...

You havent mentioned what you already have, camera-wise.... DSLR or something else, a macro lens .. reversed lens?
Bridge camera, mobile phone?

You could try and see if putting a diaphragm near the bottom of the microscope's eypiece tubing helps; [This should be non-destructive and reversible ]: Get a spare eyepiece, remove the top cap and remove the bottom lens. You will be left with just its body which should have a diaphragm in the middl...

Apparently...i.e. from a book; when both the innermost sides are blocked, you get a stereoscopic effect and when both the outermost sides are blocked by the caps you get a "pseudoscopic" effect , which I guess is an inverted stereo

Apochronaut, so if "Not all brands are the same. I have to be choosey about the brands I buy." -- which brands do you know to be good? ( I often seem to 'gain' particles on a surface and wonder if these are from the buds..it is perhaps more likely that they small particles of corrosion from the lens...

I have been wanting to post a similar question for a while.
This article mentions 'Synthetic Q-tips' :
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/ind ... clean.html

Might the author be talking about the sort of things that come with the Covid test kits???

I have an adapter that looks much like that attached to a 600d, but note that mine doesnt have any lens in it. if your adapter also has then no lens inside , then: I am pretty sure that you have two problems: Prob1] The inside of the adapter, even though it is black, is reflecting light , so roll up...

Hmm, well I can confirm that getting these caps in exactly the correct position on an eyepeice is tricky++ /near impossible :-( Funnily enough some heads do seem to give a stereo effect quite naturally at x60 (x10 objective x6 eypeices) and the caps do not seem to add to or enhance this depth effect...

Smollerthings, I actually purchased these things as a curiosity, but when I got them they didnt fit over the eyepeices that I had on my binocular microscope, so I forgot about them until I saw this post. Since that time I have acquired a couple more microscope bits and in particular some attachable ...

Patta, what is the idea behind stopping down the eyepiece's aperture ?? If it helps with the fabrication of stuff; the stereo caps have a kind of ledge inside them so that they come to rest at the right distance above the eyepeice Back of eyepeice caps.jpg I have read that the stereo caps are suppos...

They fit over the eyepeices to give stereovision
The semicircular hole sits about 8mm plus 1.5mm above the eyepeice edge on the lower powers. The one for high powers sits 4mm plus 1.5mm (The 1.5mm how much roughly the viewing hole is raised above its surrounds )

I have just got the square Ulanzi-made white-only light ( VL49 ) with a diffuser built onto the front; I wasnt expecting too much, but I think it will be very handy. Resting on the table it illuminates the mirror really well, when the microscope is vertical. For when the microscope is tilted I have ...

It seems to be quite a strange material that ends up coating the internal glass surfaces old (garden-shed stored?) microscopes, its not dust, it doesn't seem to be oil. I think I have seen it 'explode' and spread when breathed on. [Beck eyepieces seem to suffer quite a bit]. Sulphates? : https://pub...

In case it helps: I located the orginal MS-ICE installer that was still in the 'downloads' folder of the old winXP computer, put it on a fob, and took it to the new Win10 computer and it seems to be working happily. [It was a 64 bit version] - The installer said that it required some Visual C runtim...

-Is it possible that all the internals of the 4x Microplan can be shifted up and down inside the objective's body by adjusting the rear the disc and then tigthening all the parts using the nose shroud ?? (or maybe better; set their position with the nose shroud and then tighten them up with the rear...