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Fantastic pictures. I love to see permanent slides of various creatures! Did you make these slides yourself?

Not sure what your camera sensor size is but I used a U-PMTVC (has a screw for adjustability to achieve parfocality) and a C mount to 4/3 micro adapter. In total, it cost me about $50 for the PMTVC and $5 for the adapter. You’ll need an NFK 2.5x or 3.3x which are cheap. Ideal is 1.67x but that’s lik...

I’ve read somewhere that winter is one of the most diverse times of the year species wise. Give it a go and try to collect an open water sample as well as a muck/algae sample

I use a 10x and 20x most often for pond life. 10x gives me the best detail and context around a specimen. For videoing the creatures, I lean towards 20x depending on their size. Some rotifer and paramecium are large enough with a 10x. Best of luck!

What kind of set up are you using? If transmitted light, a pond with some algae would work wonders for you if you harvest some algae and dilute in water. If you wanted to make an algae culture, harvest a bit from a local pond and add it to a water bottle of water + a little bit of miracle grow ferti...

One good thing is that the top lens of a condenser is usually a single piece of glass or at best contains a thin plane sheet sandwiched on top of the lens, not really a doublet. There is no aplanatism or achromatism built into the top lens just the N.A. of the condenser. Lens suppliers sometimes ha...

That's quite a break. Is the DIC prism under that OK? In any case, the lens looks much like an older Olympus NIC condenser from the Vanox-BH era rather than the most recent BH2 versions. If so, the screw-on lens from an old 1.4na Olympus oblique condenser might fit. If you can provide the exact mm ...

Hey folks! I recently acquired an NIC/Phase contrast condenser and am extremely happy. The only downside is that the condenser glass is broken :( Is there any hope of saving this and making it functional again? Maybe sending it to Olympus and they have someone who can repair it? Thanks so much and I...

4x $243 10x $235 20x $297 40x w. corr. collar $372 100x w iris $420 Total of $1.567 + shipping and 25% import tax. These are expensive, and the high magnification objectives are not easy to use. Depth of focus is very shallow, and working distance is extremely small. For wet mounts, I personally wo...

If you check eBay's "sold" listings over time, you'll see that it should be possible to spend a bit less. You also probably don't need both 60x and 100x Plan Apo oil immersion objectives, since they have similar resolutions (numerical apertures). Once you hook up a camera, the images from either ma...

Will do $2300. Thanks

I'm trying to figure out on Ebay and other websites what to expect to pay for various S plan APO's and have seen a range of pricings. My general consensus is that I should expect: 4x : $120 10x : $180 20x : $250-300 40x : $300 60x : $500 100x : $500 Is this close? What did you all pay for yours? App...

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I've got this scope and an Olympus BH2 and decided since the BH2 has polarized light already and that I need to upgrade to DIC and S plan APO's, I should go ahead and sell the vanox. Asking $3500 or best offer and however much shipping comes out to be :) (It'll be taken apart and packaged as a micro...

Hi folks! I currently have an olympus BH2 and although I don't have a DIC set up, I am most definitely going to have one in the future with this set up. I have a full set up of S plan objectives and am considering the S plan APO line for the higher NA. The brochures seem to recommend the S plan obje...

Wow!! Beautiful set up. Living the life I see!

viktor j nilsson wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 25, 2022 7:36 am

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If you pm me your email I can send you the pdf.

Would you be able to send me the PDF as well? I will send you my email if you’re willing. Thanks!!

My question is essentially the title. I've got the amscope darkfield dry condenser I use with my olympus BH2 but I am not a huge fan of it as it is not as dark as I'd like it to be. Anyone know if the phase contrast condenser for the bh2 has a darkfield stop or how I could improve the darkness my cu...

Hey y’all, I want to get an AH-AAC condenser for my Olympus vanox AH since it comes with swing out filter holders, but it’s not widely available. Anyone know if a CH series or similar condenser would fit and has filter holding capabilities? Thank y’all for your guidance! It’s helped me progress ever...

Hey y’all, I’ve got the Olympus AH vanox w/ polarized light and epi fluorescence but I only have the polarized light condenser. The achromatic that was standard with the model had a flip out filter holder and I’d like to use this for oblique illumination if I can get my hands on it. Please reach out...

Howdy folks. I’ve got two of these condensers as I bought them when I first got into the hobby thinking I’d be using my 50x and 100x oil objectives often. I was wrong and hardly use them. Therefore here are some pictures and I’m asking $400 each. Let me know if you have any questions and I will happ...

Hi there everyone. I’ve been in the hobby for around 6 months now and have started my journey on permanent slide making. I’ve got some synthetic Canada balsam I’ve had success with but I’ve read many people use PVA, Euparal, glycerol etc and I have failed to be able to find these online. Any other m...

ScienceMatters wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 25, 2021 10:45 pm

Thanks! I did get my hands on both the dry and oil Olympus darkfield condensers and have been enjoying them very much.

How much did you end up paying for the DF oil condenser if you don’t mind me asking. Thanks! (Looking for one/considering it for my microscope)

Hey there! Can you list everything that comes in this? I think a reason it’s not selling is nobody knows what’s in the bags and we can’t see the objectives. I’d be interested in it if you could produce more pictures. Thanks

Hey everyone! I’m looking to add oblique microscopy to my skill set and microscope and have watched a number of videos but before I start making filters etc, I wanted to ask if anyone here has had success with this. Any help is appreciated. I’ve got an Olympus BH2 BHTU. I’ve got the flip top condens...

So I have an Olympus BH2 BHTU and just bought the U-PMTVC, U-SPT, and the PE 2.5x as pictured here: 48F3B0A1-0683-479A-AC4F-D4FF7AFCD818.jpeg I need a camera to put on it and I’ve looked into a lot of options. I want to avoid the 1.67x piece due to rarity/costs but am really looking to take videos o...

Hey there! Thanks for the response. So the black piece above the objectives is the polarizing attachment. The cream colored piece with the side arm is a teaching head attachment. The black part is the only polarizing piece. Hope this helps!

Thank you for answering! Do you have a recommendation that would be better fit for the set up I have?

I don’t have an infinite scope I don’t think and my objectives are splan but aren’t infinity corrected.

Thanks so much!!

Hey y’all! I recently bought an Olympus BH2 BHTU with a polarizing attachment near the head and it has the sliding piece on it. See picture. ACFEABBF-3009-4841-B827-31607FEEB30C.png It can be seen just above the turret head and just below the trinocular dovetail piece. I looked into some forum pages...

Hey everyone! I just started microscopy as a hobby this past week. I’ve got an Olympus BH2 BHTU set up. I just ordered the U-SPT phototube, PE 2.5x, and U-PMTVC and am looking to order the camera now. I have my eyes on a Nikon 1 J5 and was wondering if anyone has experience with this? Ideally, I’d l...