All, I have posted on this before and not been able to get conclusive ID. Are these Coelosphaerium, cyanobacterium or something else? Some fave flagella and...
Hi all, please advise/ please comment on this objective. These are the only specs engraved on this huge silver objective with a correction-collar, and a pale...
Hi Would appreciate guidance on this. I have an Apex explorer plus stereo microscope. It has 10x eyepieces and 2 and 4x objective. As I mainly look at coins a...
Hi, I received the email below and am passing it on for those who might be intertested. Please contact Roland directly, off-list, with any questions, etc. ...
I find myself in a position these days of needing to get out of debt, so all the non-essential items (no matter how much I enjoy them) are being sold off. So,...
Hi I've read in various sources and from own and colleagues experiences that a number of the mirrorless cameras seem to have surprisingly high vibration when...
I was using antibiotics to help grow an Aquatic plant in culture.it got infected after about a week with a pink colony, in a petri dish they looks just like a...
Hi, The group occasionally receives posts from microscope and accessories dealers, advertizing their stores. Such posts are clearly spam. I am not referring to...
Hi David, This is an interesting thread. I have a fair amount of experience using the Sony a55 SLT with a Zeiss Universal, having purchased the camera just...
All, I want to make some optically clear waveplates sandwiched between optical glass. I have never done this before so I need advice. Which material is...
Dear Nikon SMZ-10 colleagues, A question: a Nikon stereoscope line has two subsequent scope models in which the illuminator turns cosmetically different but...
Hello, Folks, I've searched without success to find a site or forum dealing with American-made Bausch & Lomb binoculars. I suspect this is a bit off-topic,...
Dear colleagues, I would like to ask you for shops for stains and dyes (for instance carmin, orcein, safranin) in europe, preferably Germany. Thanks a lot for...
Hello: I plant to buy this microscope: Nikon ALPHAPHOT-2 YS2-T http://newyork.craigslist.org/que/ele/2973180144.html and then replace the binocular head with a...
I'd rather not see them, as my interest in this group is limited to a repair project I'm working on. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
I've got a couple of questions about the condenser on my CX31. 1) Using objectives above 10x, I can't focus the condenser. It looks like I need to raise it...
Item 26100633073 is a LABOROSCOPE AL-3000 microscope "professionally converted for darkfield live blood analysis". The "buy it now" price is £2350 (US $3764)....
from Tim P Mark, I think your account has been hacked - got a spam pretending to be you. Yours in good faith Tim P [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Hi, I'm searching for a cheap Camera to take photos manually through the eyepiece. Maybe getting used camera on the internet, but I'm not sure which camera...
Hi all, An easy question: I've been searching for a suitable phase condenser for my Zeiss Standard GFL and I've found one, with dovetail mount, with s/n...
Hello fellow group members - I have enjoyed being part of this group for the last few years - mostly lurking but occasionally posting too - and I am asking...
Hi all, I was trawling my old archives and discovered I'm a long-lapsed member of this group. We're looking at, maybe, 8 years? So I thought I'd re-validate my...
Dear friends, For a long time, I've been searching for a pair of wrenches to center the light field and condensers of my Zeiss Jena Lumipan. These are of the...
You could be interested in: Royal Society 2012 Lecture on microscopy. Feb 13th in London. For those who cannot be there,it will be broadcast live on the...
Hello, I have completed my VERY informal test with mixed results: Two petri dishes were prepared with 200ml of water, 1 grain of rice, and 1 grain of wheat....
Hello, My wife and I went down to our local stream and took samples (I posted that video link a week ago). Just a few days ago, my wife made her first slide...
