Few weeks ago I was asking for advice on a microscope, but lack of advice and an ebay oportunity made me buy a Mitutoyo FS50 with lenses
The set up is in progress but the microscope is a solid beast indeed. So far I fixed it to one of my wooden set ups with sorbothane hemispheres but I would like to move to a more solid base in the future:
The whole set up:
200-400mm zoom tube lens and 1um Coarse/fine focus
M42 tubes and a 16mm helicoid M42-NEX to get the camera parfocal with the eyepieces; it is loose enough to allow rotation but not so loose for it to fall
My actual 5 axis base consisting of 2 Velmex A25 unislides with 2" travel, a 360º stage and a couple of goriometers
- I would like to add something like a Velmex unislide between the scope and the wooden stand so I can change the parfocal of the system and use other infinity lenses, like the nikon CFIs
- I also want to add a proper microscope base so I can take pictures of microscope slides using brightfield, darkfield and polarized light (maybe and amscope, Olympus CH2, etc...) any suggestions wellcome
- What could make a better support for the scope? Something like an aluminium post on a granite base? Any ideas?
Regards
Javier
