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A greatly reduced file size picture of a try at using panoramic photo mode on my iPhone on my old XSP13A moving the translation stage- Suggested title, ‘Angel Wing’

Don’t know whether this thread is too old to be active but I have an XSP-13A microscope (China) that I bought as a teenager through my dad’s workplace (a bio-pharmaceutical company) back in 1982. I’ve done a few modifications to it over the years - most recently rigged up my phone to it, made an LED...

Thanks for the welcome. Indeed, almost do away with peering down the eyepiece by using a digital interface instead - somewhat less tiring. Done away with the mirror now too by using a £2 led light source from the local shop but modified for variable illumination and a USB 5V input rather than 4.5V b...

Good morning fellow microscopists. I bought my XSP 13A scope back in the early 1980’s when I was a teenager. With some free time I pulled it out again and returned with teenage excitement. Things are somewhat easier these days electronically and digitally today than back in the 1980s! I used to take...