Microphot Nikon FXA microscope

piermicro · Post by **piermicro** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 2:43 am

Hi everyone!
I have the opportunity to buy a micro FXA and I need to know a few things about it.
1) What is the overall quality of this micro?
2) Is it possible to mount a digital camera like a D 700 on one of the two F-type lateral attacks?
I think that the FXA has its own built-in shutter that should remain open using a D 700. Do you know how to keep the shutter open?
3) The FXA has the illuminator for fluorescence with filter cubes. Depriving a cube by the filters of excitation / barrier, could the illuminator be used as a epiilluminatore? Are there problems that I do not understand?
4) The micro has a capacitor achromatic / aplanatic 1.4 with Nomarski DIC
20/40/100 prisms but It has not the objective prism. Will I be able to find one?
A big thank to all who will give me some advice.
Greetings,

Pier

JohnyM · Post by **JohnyM** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 11:35 am

1) Don't know. I own labophot 2 and it's outstanding. I suppose microphot is better.
2) No idea. I suppose yes.
3) Sure. You'll need a cube with a halfmirror and UV barrier filter mounted in exciter place.
4) I've got upper DIC prism (actualy a whole nosepiece with DIC slider and analyser), but no DIC condenser. Maybe we could make some agreement.

Post by **enricosavazzi** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 12:32 pm

Maybe this can help with respect to question 2:

http://www.boycesci.com/Manuals/Microph ... manual.pdf

Another possibility could be to set a long exposure (a couple of seconds) on the D700 to let the camera vibration subside and then use the built-in microscope shutter for the actual exposure.

piermicro · Post by **piermicro** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 1:06 pm

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.Thank you for the answers and for the instruction manual, very useful.
I'm afraid that the shutter dell'FXA functions only if the micro camera is mounted a specific intended only for this micro.
greetings.

Saul · Post by **Saul** » Tue Jun 25, 2019 8:30 pm

enricosavazzi wrote:Maybe this can help with respect to question 2:

http://www.boycesci.com/Manuals/Microph ... manual.pdf

Another possibility could be to set a long exposure (a couple of seconds) on the D700 to let the camera vibration subside and then use the built-in microscope shutter for the actual exposure.

Hi Enrico, do you have updated link ?

Post by **enricosavazzi** » Wed Jun 26, 2019 12:10 am

Saul wrote:
enricosavazzi wrote:Maybe this can help with respect to question 2:

http://www.boycesci.com/Manuals/Microph ... manual.pdf

Another possibility could be to set a long exposure (a couple of seconds) on the D700 to let the camera vibration subside and then use the built-in microscope shutter for the actual exposure.
Hi Enrico, do you have updated link ?

Unfortunately, no. The link leads to an empty page also for me. Their whole site is down except for an empty template.