Christmas is early this year! I was finally able to find what I have been searching for many years, the 'holy grail' of stereomicroscopes, the Wild M10!
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And what about the image quality...it is simply superb! I thought my previous workhorse, a Wild M3Z with a PlanApo objective and the original Wild BF/DF base produced very, very good results, but the Wild M10 and the Leica Rotterman base blow them out of the water! Such a joy to use. Once I get the Reichert Polyvar set up and find a Leitz Diavert, I think I am set for life
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Here's some pics of the setup:
I had my friend make another adapter as well, this one is for the Wild 25mm round focusing columns to be connected to these new Leica bases. Here's two pics of this adapter:
I already had a couple of Wild original adapter plates that enable using a trapezoidal focusing column on older Wild bases intended for the 25mm round column. So now I can combine pretty much any Wild or Leica stereo on nearly any Wild or Leica base. Great fun and gives many options.
Unfortunately, when testing the scope yesterday, I immediately found out that the fine focus isn't working. The coarse focus functions as it should but when I try to use fine focus, the knobs just turn (and very, very lightly, which of course is a sign or problems) but the focus does not change. Could this be an adjustment problem? I have the Wild M10 user manual as pdf but there was nothing on adjusting fine focus. I hope it's nothing too serious.