I had some pretty good experience with MOTIC SMZ140/143 microscopes. compared to Leica (which are my favorites) they seem a little "flimsy" but image quality is good, they come with a built in video cam and grabber, they have a large table and at 1,700 bucks (with camera, 10x and 20x eyepieces and a 1.5x 'objective' and yes, that's one-thousand-seven-hundred!) they're unbeatable.
the two big negatives: they come with built in halogen light, so the can get warm (yoo can use the reflective light to avoid that) and no polariser option (they have one on their webpage - don't buy that, unless you want to disassemble it, getting polarisers from somewhere else and jerry rig them in is easier) cheers jens On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 06:12 -0700, Frank Lees wrote: > Hi, > > I apologize if this has been posted here before, but I will need to > buy a standard stereo microscope for viewing crystals. Could anyone > give me some suggestions regarding the brand, model, and retailer? > Thanks in advance! > > Frank > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Get the Yahoo! toolbar and be alerted to new email wherever you're > surfing.
