LEITZ WETZLAR PRODOVIT MICROSCOPE ATTACHMENT
Is anyone familiar with this item?
eBay#:110279102097
Craig
Leitz Wetzlar Prodovit Microscope Attachment
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augusthouse
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Leitz Wetzlar Prodovit Microscope Attachment
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Craig, I haven´t seen such one before.
But it looks like that this device could possibly have been used for projecting prepared microscopic slides directly without having had them photographed.
But Pradovit was usually the name Leitz used for their slide projectors. This and the fact that the seller is advertising it misspelled as Prodovit in the headline might keep the price low.
Perhaps another module for your time machine?!:smt047
--Betty
But it looks like that this device could possibly have been used for projecting prepared microscopic slides directly without having had them photographed.
But Pradovit was usually the name Leitz used for their slide projectors. This and the fact that the seller is advertising it misspelled as Prodovit in the headline might keep the price low.
Perhaps another module for your time machine?!:smt047
--Betty
When I saw your post I though it would be something I was familiar with.
I never even HEARD of this item. As the advertisement says it allows the
projection of slides from between crossed polars which means it was probably cooked up at the request of some geologist.
It also might have been used to make slides that make an image have limited motion depening on the orientation of the polars.
I used to have that exact projector and I have had in my hands all three of the other Pradovit attachments. Very Very rare item as the seller says.
The ColorPlan 90 2.5 was the reason I bought the Pradovit in the first place.
Very nice lens. This one has to be made special , strain free to operate between crossed polars.
Polarization was the first thing I thought when I saw that rod with knurled knobs on it.
That design is borrowed from the Bausch and Lomb Wright petrological microscope of about 1915 which can do the same trick.
But this item is from the late 1960s or early seventies I would think.
If you have a Pradovit you should buy it.
I never even HEARD of this item. As the advertisement says it allows the
projection of slides from between crossed polars which means it was probably cooked up at the request of some geologist.
It also might have been used to make slides that make an image have limited motion depening on the orientation of the polars.
I used to have that exact projector and I have had in my hands all three of the other Pradovit attachments. Very Very rare item as the seller says.
The ColorPlan 90 2.5 was the reason I bought the Pradovit in the first place.
Very nice lens. This one has to be made special , strain free to operate between crossed polars.
Polarization was the first thing I thought when I saw that rod with knurled knobs on it.
That design is borrowed from the Bausch and Lomb Wright petrological microscope of about 1915 which can do the same trick.
But this item is from the late 1960s or early seventies I would think.
If you have a Pradovit you should buy it.
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