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Hello everyone...here are two photos of my setup. The Ortholux 2 stand is set up for both phase contrast and LED epifluorescence. The Canon EOS 6D is interfaced to the trinocular port via the optical core to my old Orthomat W 35 mm film camera. It's a Zoom, so I can go up to 3X. https://www.dropbox....

Hi Charlie... Thanks for the warm welcome. You are asking a great question. I know that NIH (where I did my postdoc) does surplus a ton of amazing equipment and that universities and other non-profit research institutions can get that stuff for free. I am not aware of my own institution giving surpl...

I really like Lightroom classic for MacOS. But....it doesn't have live-view in its tethered mode, so I use the Canon EOS utility to shoot the pictures with. The freebie Canon Digital Photo Professional is also pretty good--but you need to be using a Canon.

I just came across this. Amazingly nice work! Thank you!

A lot of folks have asked me that. It's my FCC assigned radio amateur call sign. But a nice coincidence for a neuroscientist.

Well, actually Arlington. My name is Jim. I'm an about to be retired professor of neuroscience. Over my work career, I've used a lot of confocal equipment at Woods Hole's marine biological lab and also at the Institute I ran for a bunch of years--Zeiss and Nikon. I now own a Leitz ortholux 2 system ...