Zeiss Historica

[MichaelG.]

There are a couple interesting ‘microscopy’ articles in this 2013 issue : https://www.mikeeckman.com/wp-content/u ... ng2013.pdf

p20 Early Apochromats
P22 The Optovar

MichaelG.
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Edit: __ and there’s more good stuff here: https://www.mikeeckman.com/zeiss-historica/

[MicroBob]

Hi Michael,
thank you for the link - very interesting!
The ageing of the apos remembers me of the ageing of soda-lime glass slides, which I hate as I tend to buy live-long supplies and then - hydrolysis damage - what?

Bob

[apochronaut]

Fritz Schulze worked for Zeiss Canada. In the early 90's he started a Canadian based microscopical society, about the time he retired from Zeiss. It was called the Historical Microscopical Society. I had quite a few phone conversations with him. He was always looking for people to take a more active role but I was far too busy at the time, building a farm based income from scratch. I always felt a bit sheepish about my inability to help out. The society never attracted too many members and as most of the work was on Fritz's shoulders it folded after only 5 years or so.
One of his pet projects was to make a stereo slide show presentation using two synchronized and precisely registered slide projectors , each projecting a side of stereo images. Last I heard, he had it pretty well finished.
Very fine person, Fritz.