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This is fascinating! How could you adapt an existing microscope?

Could you then use cameras?

I was thinking about this topic again overnight and just read your post about design. I think you are right about the design aspect...to me it is important. Back in the 80's the "new" look of the BH2 series seemed refreshing (although Leitz were already going down that design path); they looked new,...

This is a topic I am very interested in. As a University student in New Zealand in the 1980's, I worked part-time for a Company who sold and maintained Olympus microscopes (the Company was a sub-agent, on behalf of the main NZ Importer). The BH2 Series arrived in NZ at a perfect time....the exchange...

Hi I've just joined this Forum but I might be able to shed some light on Askania and their microscopes. In the former East Germany, the original company was one of the "satellite manufacturers" of VEB Carl Zeiss Jena, not based in Jena, but in Rathenow (others have posted about the long optical trad...

Greetings from "The Antipodes". I am a long-time microscope guy. Initially trained (part-time) in microscope servicing and sales, while studying at University (Psychology). Went back to commercial Microscopy in 1986 and am still there! New Zealand was an interesting place, microscopically speaking. ...