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First microscope image, need to improve on illumination.

The back sand is from North of Prince George BC.

Gifted the scope to the neighbors grandson. A good choice; hopefully it will help build a life-long interest in discovery. Worked out perfect, Grandad has a box of prepared slides from his University days, so the lad has a good starting point. I'm new to the world of microscopy, so much to learn ju...

Gifted the scope to the neighbors grandson.

Scope is home, missing the 20X eyepieces but came with Oil darkfield, slides and covers, three filters. Everything works very smooth, no weird noises and no free play.

For the DIY you can find a linear fresnel sheet inside flat screen televisions and laptops.

Just purchased the same AmScope T690B with 14 meg USB 3 camera / $300.00 Canadian.

Used but not abused.

As a hobby precious metals refiner I want to examine the various salt crystals.

This scope has a five objective turret, one oil 100, all objectives are in need of cleaning.

If memory serves me: The lenses in the base are used to adapt the lighting to low (2*-4*) versus high power objectives. Not sure all of your objectives are genuine Olympus, some have a Zeiss flavor in their appearance. Having matched objectives and eyepieces of the same brand and era is of importan...

If memory serves me: The lenses in the base are used to adapt the lighting to low (2*-4*) versus high power objectives. Not sure all of your objectives are genuine Olympus, some have a Zeiss flavor in their appearance. Having matched objectives and eyepieces of the same brand and era is of importan...

Hey allgren you have a decent clean up job ahead but it’s a very nice scope when all is working well-I have one-they come also with trinocular head or blind photo port without eyepieces if you want to take photos. You can put a vertical illuminator on it to look at minerals in reflected light-put a...

Here are the objectives installed, Olympus and Zeiss read somewhere only the former color banded were correct has someone installed incorrect objectives. https://i.postimg.cc/9Q680fDZ/0.png https://i.postimg.cc/QtJK5f0h/1.png https://i.postimg.cc/PrsrhW4M/2.png https://i.postimg.cc/VN32MR5G/3.png ht...

It's really hard to read in the photo, but if you look between the back of the stage and the arm, on the top of the stage mount, you will find the model designation stamped into the metal. It appears to read FHA. Thank you, yes it is an FHA with the following numbers ( 211710 ) stamped into the sta...

About 25 years ago I had an old microscope that I used during my prospecting expeditions, then one summer I was working road construction from a camp. The mechanic and his wife were home schooling their three children. One afternoon I had lent the children my microscope, they were so thrilled with n...