Nice that it has an iris at all though, right?

The mvx10 is a very high resolution photomacroscope. They are specced much better than stereo microscopes for photography, even top end ones. These are really superb objectives. The m201 has an amazing zoom ratio but that isn't the only consideration. The z16 has a much higher ratio than the z6 but ...

I think the M205 might still bottleneck the resolution of the objective at lower mags more than the Z6, but if you do have a chance to try it on an M205 the results should be very interesting. It may or may not allow stereo viewing, maybe just at higher mags?

Great find!
These are macroscope lenses and may not cover a stereo microscope. They would probably be great on a Leica Z6.

The working distance is less than 1mm iirc. I have not tried one but it is probably quite solid, they're supposed to be comparable to contemporary Nikon mplans.

Let's say the message went something like
"I checked sales record.
I couldn't find the record we sold our microscope to your company.

How did you get it?"

Well, I tried contacting Lasertec to ask what the list price was. They said they only sell objectives to businesses that have already bought a full microscope system. Nothing surprising about that but nice of them to get back to me. So that's one catch.

But of course they have. AI has been around for a very long time. It only became useful for use in CGI in the mid to late 90's, but by 1997 the majority of Hollywood productions were using CGI with AI tools for making movies. Stills are a simple matter vs a full-blown CGI movie. The images we're di...

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Wed Jan 17, 2024 11:41 am

AI tools have been capable of this type of image since before 2000.

No offense Ray but they absolutely haven't.

The crop factor doesn't affect optical magnification at all and should not be used in this calculation. Just use the focal lengths to calculate magnification. Then when you know that you can look at your sensor size and figure out what your final field of view will be (which is different from optica...

I was just given some old histology slides (mouse or rat brain I believe) and decided to give them a try. These should be great for sussing out comparative resolution, less so for chromatic abberations. Shot on my trusty Nikon microscope with a cheap LED illuminator for backlighting, no condenser. A...

I still need to do a more visually appealing shootout but I had a pleasant surprise. I needed to add a spacer since the 45mm parfocal length is inconvenient when put on a nosepiece with 95mm parfocal objectives, and not only does the added space not add any vignetting (it has with other infinity obj...

That's an optical inevitability because of the higher RI of the polarizer glass. I believe you can measure the RI of a material by the ratio between measured thickness and the distance to focus the front face down to the back face on a microscope.

To be fair Robert's test was already pretty compelling--I've been craving one since even though as I repeat to myself I have no need for it. But now I'm having to repeat it more.

I gotta keep telling myself I'm shooting aps-c, I don't need to think about the mejiro float lens, my z6 is plenty good, it has floating elements too, I don't need one....I was sure looking at that last lot on eBay though.