What is the "Umbra shield" ?

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What is the "Umbra shield" ?

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What is the "Umbra shield" ?

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Nothing special. Piece of metal. I just use leftover m42 tubes for that purpose.

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JohnyM wrote:Nothing special. Piece of metal. I just use leftover m42 tubes for that purpose.
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Not exactly. It's used on inverted microscope and placed between condenser and subject (assumed petri dish). It's just plain sheet of black material obscuring condenser lens.

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Or you could turn down the lights in your room...

This however is often not possible in multi-user labspaces. The CKX is often located in normal cell culture labs for quick inspection of cultures and not in dedicated microscope rooms for measurement which are usually dark.

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