I had the same problem but it was a lot easier to pick one up on eBay. From my experience, with my particular printer, I would modify the collector/filter holder slightly so it can be printed completely 'flat' in the orientation of your last photo. I might have to think about that statement more. <...

I am wondering if anyone else has had issues with the plastic 'cradle' at the back of a Nikon Optiphot fracturing and breaking? It attaches to the microscope base with four screws, and extends about 2.5 cm (an inch in old money), with a 50mm diameter ring at the rear to take the lamp collector lens,...

jurkovicovic wrote:Photomicro: thanks for offer. But, 50x is too much for me now. I have good experience with 10x and I would like to try 20x. Maybe later I will contact you
ChrisR: let me know.

Thanks
Filip

No problem, I understand.

I made a typo, you can probably tell from the NA, it is a x40 !

I have an M Plan x50/0.65 210/0 if that is any use.

I am looking for a nikon epi-illuminator, such as this one on Ebay , of similar. In fact, the ebay-one looks quite good and complete, but for the missing "optional item". Isn't this a most important switch? Preferably not USA (excessive shipping cost). Hello there I have a defunct item, without eit...

Thanks to Michael and David for starting this thread, and following up on it. As a fairly long-time user of the Olympus M4/3 cameras and latterly focus stacking on the EM5-II (though the method I use is called focus bracketing in the menu) with the 30mm macro, this is of great interest to me. Becaus...

My eyes are quite close together, but the interpupillary distance is sufficiently adjustable to fit my vision and I have no problem achieving immediately a binocular vision. Because of the 21 mm objectives, these are not low-light binoculars. Anything dimmer than a normally illuminated room strains...

Secondly, a filter turret for between the head and the binocular head. I can't find a reference to this, nor can I see a Cat number on it. Frustratingly, the few filters in it are filthy, and the three bolts (allen?) have so far resisted my attempts to loosen. Mike As a follow up to this; 1. I got ...

Very unusually for this side of the pond, I have picked up an American Optical Series 20 stand, which was in need of some TLC. Sadly, the trinocular head has a main central prism (that is swung out when the lever is flicked) that has lost a great deal of the silvering. There were one or two bits in ...

Greetings, all: I just got a Diaphot TMD with phase and DIC, pretty complete, and pretty nice shape overall - I'm stoked! The built-in Bertrand lens focus is frozen, and I mean to get in there and see what can be done to free it back up. But thought I'd ping this forum first, as I understand it to ...

I have a Zeiss Luminar 63mm macro bellows lens available if anyone is interested.

Can send pictures of item, and pictures taken with actual lens.

in UK.

JohnyM wrote:I've already found a solution for condenser that's better than Nikon's Achro 0.13. It's very simple and cheap and works great, but objectives...

Perhaps you could share your solution.

Mike

I have sent you a PM.

Mike

Those look nice! But I wonder, since they are for stereo microscopes, the fine focus might not be fine enough for focus stacking with high-magnification objectives? they say 0,002mm on scale, that would be the same as Nikon focus blocks yes, exactly the same block as used on the Optiphot microscope...

Just obtained a Nikon (Optiphot?) vertical illuminator, amongst some other bits and pieces. The BF/DF plunger could not be moved, and there was something inside rattling. So, I had to take apart. The plunger was easily eased so that the BF/DF segments slide into place. However, the item rattling was...