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- Fri Sep 04, 2020 12:35 pm
- Forum: Equipment Discussions
- Topic: Help needed: DIC components necessary for my Oly
- Replies: 31
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Re: Help needed: DIC components necessary for my Oly
"basic setup" restricted to the basic universal prism with the u-dict, cannot (officially) use dic in objectives marked with bfp1 (e.g. 60x and 100x apo). | | tube (e.g. u-tr30 or similar) | | |--| nosepiece with dic slider slot (d5re, d6re, d7re) and dic slider (U-DICT with U-ANT) objective sample ...
- Fri Sep 04, 2020 12:17 pm
- Forum: Equipment Discussions
- Topic: Help needed: DIC components necessary for my Oly
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9474
Re: Help needed: DIC components necessary for my Oly
U-DICTS: S for shift. According to my digging, the difference for photomicrography isn't that huge. Using one requires an intermediate collar to hold a polariser, I guess the U-POT3? Complicates things, so not my type of joint here... bad puns are bad. (pot, yeah? hehehe I'll go stand in a corner) ...
- Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:29 am
- Forum: Equipment Discussions
- Topic: Cleaning microscope lens surfaces
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2974
Hi, my experience with isoproanol is mixed, if you use it out of glass bottels it is fine, if you store it in plastic containers (falcon tubes) it leaves a white residue - i guess there is something dissolving in the isoprop our olympus service technician uses petroleum ether which evaporates nicely...
- Thu Mar 05, 2020 4:40 am
- Forum: Equipment Discussions
- Topic: Advice for tethered shooting
- Replies: 1
- Views: 960
Advice for tethered shooting
Hi, we are setting up a new documentation station at work and I am currently looking into different options for doing photo documentation. Maximum image quality is not of concern (unfortunately) but ease of use. Ideally it should be some form of tethered shooting to PC with a rather robust camera. T...
- Sat Feb 22, 2020 1:54 am
- Forum: Equipment Discussions
- Topic: Dry or wet darkfield condenser
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1117
You have a full set of Phase objectives - Do you have the phase condenser (U-PCD)? it can be used with immersion medium and then - iirc - with condenser na of 1.25. It has an annulus for darkfield besides bf and ph1,2,3 (and with the 10x you can use the ph3 annulus as decent darkfield stop). With th...
- Thu Aug 08, 2019 4:26 am
- Forum: Equipment Discussions
- Topic: Darkfield ring needed
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2355
- Wed Aug 07, 2019 11:35 pm
- Forum: Equipment Discussions
- Topic: Darkfield ring needed
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2355
There is this guy on ebay selling a variety of condenser inserts in different sizes. I was contemplating of buying a set because i am also looking for an darkfield insert for the UCD8 but have never gotten around to.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/273087400339
Peter
https://www.ebay.com/itm/273087400339
Peter
- Tue Jul 23, 2019 1:24 pm
- Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Mixite
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3029
- Mon Jul 15, 2019 11:35 pm
- Forum: Equipment Discussions
- Topic: Piezoelectric focuser on eBay
- Replies: 76
- Views: 16818
- Thu Jul 11, 2019 12:55 pm
- Forum: Equipment Discussions
- Topic: Piezoelectric focuser on eBay
- Replies: 76
- Views: 16818
- Wed Jul 03, 2019 11:31 pm
- Forum: Photography Through the Microscope
- Topic: RAM Chip
- Replies: 3
- Views: 830
- Wed Jun 26, 2019 2:56 am
- Forum: Equipment Discussions
- Topic: Modding a Nikon MM-11
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3212
your last link is broken (for me)
is this the publication you were referring to?
https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstra ... 5-14-16652
is this the publication you were referring to?
https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstra ... 5-14-16652
- Tue Jun 25, 2019 11:30 pm
- Forum: Technical and Studio Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Blue Mud Dauber - Opinions?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2370
- Mon Jun 24, 2019 11:11 pm
- Forum: Photography Through the Microscope
- Topic: INTEL 88SDG
- Replies: 3
- Views: 711
- Tue May 28, 2019 11:55 am
- Forum: Equipment Discussions
- Topic: Use cases for ELWD Condensers
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2686
Oh sorry i was in a bit of an hurry. The CKX is actually equipped with planfluorite objectives of the same grade as in the ix70. The "horrible" was me reminding my attempts of creating an oblique lighting setup with this condenser. this did not work out because i could not decenter the condenser eno...