I thank you again Rik, for your patience and time. My supervisor have had me put all my attention towards other projects. As several of the parts were delayed I will not be able to finish and validate the scanner before I have to hand in my thesis in the end of april. On the bright side, I have been...

You are correct. The resolution is about 4.8 microns. What matters is the FOV and the location and size of the lens entrance pupil, not the front element diameter. The farthest distance is of course the diagonal-my error-but I do not understand the argument about the entrance pupil. The front elemen...

Thank you all for the feedback and for your time. I am sorry about the time it has taken me to answer. I have been down with the flu, and spent my time musing about the alcohol content of my toddies instead of optical filters. @Rik As it applies to these filters, my understanding is that "collimated...

Hello everybody I am new to macrophotography but I have used a microscope and microscopy slide-scanners before. I am writing my master's thesis in biomedical engineering at the moment, and one of the objectives is to determine the perfusion-the flow of blood-to different types of brain tissues in an...