What equipment do you use? Post pictures and descriptions of your microscope(s) here!
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redflanker
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by redflanker » Sun Dec 01, 2019 4:09 pm
Microscope:Zeiss Primo star with phase contrast
Camera:Cannon 90D
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by wstenberg » Mon Dec 02, 2019 12:02 am
I have always wanted to try out one of these.
might be very handy on a camping trip.
I wonder if you could put it over a lightbox for viewing transmitted light samples?
William
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by redflanker » Mon Dec 02, 2019 1:51 pm
I thought it practicable,I also recommend you some other brand Portable microscope like “PEAK”(from a japanese company),it's seems to have better quality, but Less replaceable, and also more expensive.But anyway, portable microscopes are still cheap.(40~100$)
Microscope:Zeiss Primo star with phase contrast
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by redflanker » Mon Dec 02, 2019 1:52 pm
wstenberg wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2019 12:02 am
I have always wanted to try out one of these.
might be very handy on a camping trip.
I wonder if you could put it over a lightbox for viewing transmitted light samples?
I thought it practicable,I also recommend you some other brand Portable microscope like “PEAK”(from a japanese company),it's seems to have better quality, but Less replaceable, and also more expensive.But anyway, portable microscopes are still cheap.(40~100$)
Microscope:Zeiss Primo star with phase contrast
Camera:Cannon 90D
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MicroBob
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by MicroBob » Mon Dec 02, 2019 2:10 pm
Hi together,
LOMO made such a workshop microscope in very good optical quality:
http://www.mikroskopfreunde-nordhessen. ... /MBP-3.jpg
It is a lot longer than the german and japanese workshop microscopes and their clones and this makes it a bit tippy but it offers a good wide image, two magnifications (bottom lens removable) and a trans illumination base with a small mirror. They were packed in slender long red plastic boxes and turn up on german ebay from time to time.
Bob
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by redflanker » Mon Dec 02, 2019 3:53 pm
MicroBob wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2019 2:10 pm
Hi together,
LOMO made such a workshop microscope in very good optical quality:
http://www.mikroskopfreunde-nordhessen. ... /MBP-3.jpg
It is a lot longer than the german and japanese workshop microscopes and their clones and this makes it a bit tippy but it offers a good wide image, two magnifications (bottom lens removable) and a trans illumination base with a small mirror. They were packed in slender long red plastic boxes and turn up on german ebay from time to time.
Bob
it seem to much more elegant
Microscope:Zeiss Primo star with phase contrast
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by Rossf » Mon Jan 20, 2020 3:30 am
Definitely want to get something like this one day for camping trips. Good post.
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by Rossf » Mon Jan 20, 2020 3:38 am
Just thought-I reckon a good design to include transmitted for these portable scopes would be to be able to shine torch into some tube/beam splitter arrangement and have “stage” be round disk and specimen is placed of centre a bit so stage could be just rotated to scan rather than any x/y type arrangement- just inventer style brain musings...