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Hi all, thanks to wonderful microscopists in forum shareing use of LOMO apo/water immersion objectives in recent forum threads...I again tried to couple my two LOMO apo/WI objectives to my 1990's DIN (45 mm objective lens barrel) 160 mmTL Nikon Labophot stand I achieved use of both my LOMO apo WI ob...

Yes, thanks for sharing that RAF vendor offering the LOMO apo 70X,1.23 WI dark field and phase objective and the $145 USD sounds terrific price to me. Thanks, Fan. My 2010 Chicago seller gave the entire print out of this objectives specs..and Vlad listed in the specs: 'dark field and phase contrast'...

Yes, yes...bottled water for use with these LOMO apo WI objectives. Err...this is einmams thread, Fan...however...I clearly stated I have a: LOMO 70X,1.23,WI objective speced as: "Dark field and Phase"...I clearly stated that with a Plezy adaptor+ another Leitz Wetzlar adaptor...this:'DF and Phase o...

Sweet combo of LOMO/WI objectives,einman! Will you put much worry into the actual water you use for the water immersion bridge? I finally made my LOMO 70X 1.23 DF and Phase work with DF stop on my Nikon Labophot! It took a combo of a Leitz Wetzlar Germany Plezy+ a Leitz Wetzlar Germany adaptor which...

hi, gasman and all http://www.xenics.com/en/application/spectroscopy-microscopy These camera/spectroscopes are ready to attach to off the shelf optical microscopes. But I only had undergrad physics so I doubt I'd approach these wonderful tools. The informative link gives quite a few practicle applic...

Yes, yes, so Travis answered my query about the mystery objective..it in fact is a 'dipper'...contacts the fluid films of viscera. thanks for that research,Travis! Charlie guevara

So would skyfog benefit from his visual observations of a collection of objectives to 'see' which perform better? Or are our eyes out of the loop on determining what is best in : a shoot out of: achromatic objectives...Plan achromatic objectives...Flour objectives...Plan-apo objectives? Ahh...as Phi...

I may be a little off on this but I'm pretty sure the Lomo contacting objective, is designed for a special application of epi illumination. The fact that the listing also implies that the objective works with transmitted light, I suspect is a translation problem. I think he means , transmitted thro...

Hi Charlie, I persisted, and I finally found the image (I took it in November, 2012!) For what it's worth, I identified it at the time as Spathidium , but given my record in identification, you may want to triple check that :) . Yes, yes gekko...thank you for the direction to ID! My "Protozoology",...

Welcome kennedy! Oliver just started a new forum category:'Digital Processing' which I hope to learn (from you!) about processing in. Charlie Guevara, finger lakes/US

As good as your image captures are (they are terrific to my eyes)..usually visual observations of these cells depicts how tak sharp your objective is, skyfog. How sharp are the images, the granules within the WBC's to your eyes? As you enjoy the colors...how do the color varieties look to your eyes?...

thank you so much for this post on an auction, charlie/oregon-Wisc!

I keenly wish other universities alerted we forum mixroscopists to their offerings. charlie guevara

A wonderful and 'new to me' woodland tree base moss assemblage cilliate! charlie guevara

A new to me woodland tree base ciliate.

Thanks for the great link on methylcellulose...it's use in sensitive biologic circumstance (our human eyes)...this gives me deeper confidence as I use it with aquatic meiofauna and protists. Different horses for different courses, Fan...for me a small watch glass, a small petri dish, a huge well sli...

Terrific thread you gave us, Charles S, thank you! I suggest you visit a few recent Microbe Hunter magazine articles, visit a few Micscape magazine articles. You will sample all sorts of microscopy world views in these 'zines. Microfossiles in beach sands, in ancient beach sands, microcrystals in st...

Travis, CE,and Phil and gekko...hi! Thanks to Travis I now under stand my...err 'Junior' stand to be a: Lytkarino Optical Glass Factory Russian firm device (terrific links, indeed Travis ! ). I was so impressed by CE's fondness for LOMO stands...I so enjoyed how CE shared the aquisitions of these st...

Hi, CE...I visted Travises fine link (in this thread) to:"LOMO AMERICA"..the site seems very much 'alive and active'!? But we would have to contact them during buisness hours I guess...to find out if it's active. It's always a puzzle to me how for entire sequential congresses, and presidential admin...

Thanks for your experiences and reply, Fan. Yes, I too have a 70X LOMO apo,1.23 with no correction collar. On the vintage stand which permits 'racking down enough' to use this RMS:'short barrel' objective..the images are great to my eyes. So I guess the LOMO 60X,1.15 : 'contacting objective for bact...

Hi all, please advise: forum member Travis links to a LOMO achromat with: 60X,NA 1.15 spec on it's barrel...and black inked specs on the objective barrel. I gave opine that this objective could not be :LOMO,WI...as it has no white color collar on the barrel. The ebay seller terms it: 'an achromat, 6...

Hi, Travis...to this sellers credit..the actual magnified image of the objective is clearly posted in the ad..based on this alone...I say do not purchase this item! There is no :white color band on this objective...so I doubt it is a LOMO water immersion objective. The seller offers very poor unders...

Thanks all for your thoughts on this student microscope! Travis, it works wonderfully..but it just can't offer the ease of a stand with a turrent of objectives. Sort of like a gadget for me...aahh we are spoiled on efficient microscopes! That is to say I am. The focus is totally crisp action. I see ...

The stand with study box could function in the field for me...but I love the Czeck field scope. charlie guevara

Hi all, I very recently lowcost,eBay purchased from Canada...a student LOMO field microscope with english wording for it's brand name. For me with a USSR field telescope, a mechanical stage, and LOMO apo objectives...the english wording really charmed me. Can anyone opine what it can suggest to have...

Come to think of it..they state up front: 'only visible surfaces...not under furniture, not inside walls, not inside draws'! But I love that pie-chart. As I mentioned in somebodys thread a while back...I to date have not encountered a psuedoscorpian ( I love those little pincers)...and yet a worried...

Hi all, from time to time spiders,mites, flies,and more enter into our microscopy postings ( a shout out to forum member: einman'!). Well 1/20/16 it made Canadian public radio ("As it happens" hosted by Carol Off, and Jeff Douglas)...Bugs in our homes. http://fusion.net/story/256716/more-than-500-ki...

Ooop's..it sounds like you already purchased the 4X Nikon phase objective...oh well. cg

Hi all...Kurt..Nikon at their microscope tutorials gives the time line of their stands...and when/why they left 160 tl for infinity optics. I have only 160 tl, and ?210mm? stands..and I don't recall when the switch was made....but it's there in their proud time line of Nikon microscopes. Dale...the ...

Welcome,Mark! Charlie Guevara finger lakes/US good to hear from 'the buck eye state?'.

Your UPS area driver must truck interesting kit to your home!

Hi Bill, We have 2 Microscopes the one we most often use is the 1964 Olympus GB. The ocular tube Can be adjusted from 145mm to 200mm so we can use just about any objective except for infinity. The ocular tube can easily be slid out and removed to fit a 4, or 10 power objective on the end and used as...