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This book referenced by the Reichert Diastar/Microstar IV phase contrast manual is out of copyright and freely available.

https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.5881
https://archive.org/details/phasemicroscopyp00benn

Thanks for the link, Hans

... it looks a decent scan, too
PDF version duly downloaded to the trusty iPad

MichaelG.

Just noticed the byline at the end of the preface showing Alva Bennett's position as director of research at American Optical. Make sense why it would be the reference cited in the Reichert manual.

MichaelG. wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 22, 2020 5:31 am

... it looks a decent scan, too
PDF version duly downloaded to the trusty iPad

I also downloaded the PDF initially, but it appears to have had some additional processing/compression applied that blurred out thin parts of letters, quite an eyesore to read. The images displayed in the web viewers look better, I think, as do the ones in the "SINGLE PAGE PROCESSED JP2 ZIP" download from archive.org.

hans wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 22, 2020 6:41 am

I also downloaded the PDF initially, but it appears to have had some additional processing/compression applied that blurred out thin parts of letters, quite an eyesore to read. ...

Yes, unfortunately, I agree

MichaelG.

The hardcover should be available through Abe Books.. I bought one for 8.00 and it came from England, of all places.
The book dates from the late 40's , when the AO labs were heavily into the potential of phase.

Reading it through now, it is really really good, so many practical information.

The Indian pharmaceutical industry is relentless. Apparently though, only Germans use microscopes ( and wiener pills and have cancer)