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Thank you Steve. Your photos were taken without microscope eyepiece (USB camera replaced eyepiece), correct? Your photo labels "40x" and "100x" are total magnification (which corresponds to 4x NA 0.1 and 10x NA 0.25 objectives), correct? Have you tried capturing images from your 40x and 100x oil ob...

No probs. I bought it from the Ebay uk site here
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/252256875147? ... EBIDX%3AIT.
Works fine on my Windows 10 64bit pc.
Steve

Hi guys Received my little eyepiece sized 5mb Toupcam type camera well it seems a rebadged one from Ebay cost£49 plus a tenner delivery from China, arrived today two weeks early!. IMG_1434.JPG Bought it mainly to use with the excellent Toupview and seems to work like a dream. Just plugged camera in,...

Hi Oliver Thanks for that. Yes I noticed that option but so far haven't found a way of implementing twain on my Nikon. I have also managed to successfully compile Micro-manager on a Linux partition I created thinking I could use Gphoto which is supposed to enable dslr's but no luck as yet:-( guess I...

Ah! OK I did wonder if it was possible,no probs. I do have some useful tethering apps for my Nikon D5500 which does enable live view on the pc, namely 'Backyard Nikon' and the excellent 'Digicam control'. The Toupcam type I've ordered is I think a rebadged Toupcam off eBay for a really good price so...

Hi guys Been looking at Toupview after reading posts about how good it is so much so that I've ordered a 5.0 meg Toupcam type camera to use with my microscope but I'd also like to be able to use my Nikon dslr with Toupview if possible but as far as I can see its not possible unless others could advi...

Thanks again for the info chaps. I think you must be psychic John I've just received some of that same film today from eBay from the same supplier and yes 100mm x 50mm .....spooky
Steve

Thanks all for the helpful replies Like Johns idea with the rotating Hoya filter above the diaphragm think I might have one of those kicking about somewhere .I understand only one of the filters needs to rotate so the one above the specimen could be fixed and the one below rotate!.
Steve

Hi guys I`d quite like to have a go at observing with Polarized light and wondering if linear filters can be obtained in 22mm screw in format for my scope?. It has a threaded filter draw under the Trinocular head - scope.png and this is the filter holder drawerresized.png I know I need two filters t...

Hi John
Absolutely no idea what you are doing but it makes fascinating reading to a newb
Steve

Hi Guys I`m thinking LED illumination maybe for lack of heat, ease of obtaining bulbs, better (?) intensity, etc. I assume most if not all new scopes seem to come with LED`s now so must be a valid reason for doing so!. If I`m honest I`m not that experienced to give a better reason really??. cheers S...

Hi guys Ordered one of these AC/DC dimmable led`s http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/301862657206?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Simply plugs in fine and works ok except the dimming is very slight from maximum to minimum and its only rated at 3watts to replace 20-30watt bulbs. As ...

Hi Charlie
I did think it would just be a straight swop or at least some sort of driver?, the resistor didn`t occur to me, also would I be able to dim it using the same control?
thanks
Steve

Hi Guys Been thinking of converting my `just bought` Leitz Laborlux s scope to LED and thought I`d have to do a bit of diyery to do that. My scope uses a 100watt 12v GY6.35 fit bulb and I've come across a replacement 12v 4watt GY6.35 fit LED bulb and I`m wondering if it really is that simple to do, ...

Thanks for that Charlie. I`ve just ordered a 23mm to T mount adaptor (without lens) for my Nikon dslr so hopefully everything will work to give me a focused image . Not sure if the setup will be parfocal with my x10 eyepieces but no probs.
regards
Steve

Hi Guys I`ve got my Leitz laborlux microscope with 38mm trinocular port here laborluxsnap.png and I`ve got one of these Leitz phototubes ordered and on its way phototube.png I assume the photo tube contains the relevant lenses I need so I think I just need a 23mm to Nikon bayonet adaptor to connect ...

Hi guys Won this on ebay the other day , it was promised delivery 9th Feb but came today. Its a `Leitz Laborlux S` microscope with trinocular head. It was sold as `possible faulty` from one of these company clearance firms. I thought if it was faulty I have a fair engineering background so should be...

Thanks for the info 75RR (sorry don`t know your name ) The scope is labelled `Laborlux S` and looks in pretty good condition so fingers crossed
regards
Steve

Hi guys I`ve just won a rather nice (to me anyway!) Leitz laborlux s scope on ebay complete with 5 objectives and trinocular head (due to arrive around 9th Feb). I`d like to connect my new Nikon dslr to my scope but unsure which way to do it?. The size of the trinocular port looks about 30-38mm (not...

Hi guys Sure here's a few from a while back, taken with a 120mm Espirit Apo refractor and Alpy 600 spectroscope. Raw shots are mono images as colour is not important with stellar spectra its simply a case of plotting the curve intensity from left to right. This is a typical raw spectrum of the star ...

Hi guys I have been taking spectra with my telescope for a few years now of many types of stars following the various emission and absorption lines with much interest so my spectro interest was raised when I came across some spectroscopic attachments for microscopes on eBay which made me wonder what...

Thanks Charles. So a stereo scope would be used to observe opaque things such as a pcb for example and illuminated from above and a compound one for observing objects that are mainly transparent and illuminated from below. Surely if a sample was lit from above in a compound scope that would achieve ...

Thanks for the excellent advice guys,appreciated :) . The more you look into it they do seem pretty identical all these scopes and I have read that they are all made in the same factory but with different badges on ,Amscope,Bresser,Radical,Apex etc etc. Guess it will pay me to wait a while and see w...

Hi guys I'm very tempted to go for one of these scopes after watching a few YouTubes on them and reading good things about Amscope. I would be ordering from the UK by Paypal so I have their guarantee should anything go wrong with the shipping etc. Anyone used Amscope and/or one of these scopes pleas...

Sorry Jim missed your pm, will checkout that CombineZP. Lots to suss out before getting a scope and make sure its not (according to my wife) another of my `passing fads`
Steve

KurtM wrote:To me, it only makes sense that anyone who owns and uses telescopes should also have microscopes on hand, and vice versa.

Nice one Kurt, also excellent web site you have BTW!

Steve

Hi again, gasman ( I keep thinking of actor Robert Deniro in the flic:"Brazil"...I see him rapeling down the outside of a huge apartment complex of congested humanity..in the dystopian future of the film:"Brazil"...when I state: gasman!). Must checkout that film Charlie, one I haven`t seen yet :D H...

Hi Guys New to all this very small stuff ;) . Prior to reading Mol Smith`s excellent `Microscopy as a hobby` book I thought that Stereo and bino meant the same thing with regards to microscopes, clearly they don`t but wondering if someone could clarify where I`m up to checking out the different scop...

Hi Jim Its a Nikon D5500 !. Big toss up between Cannon or Nikon at the time but the Nikon won in the end purely cos it just `felt` right at least for me and also a few camera mags were doing tests at the time and put the Nikon top. Not regretted it at all, tried it tethered using software to take sh...

Gosh I really am a newb arn`t I, just read Oliver`s 51st edition of the mag and I have absolutely no idea what a `microtome` is
best
Steve