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From: paleo@uncecs.edu (Constantine A. LaPasha)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.misc
Subject: Re: buying a microscope
Summary: other brands to check
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Date: 22 Aug 90 18:01:51 GMT
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If you do decide to go for a new scope - check out those by
Olympus - they make some nice microscopes that are not too
expensive.  (If you want real nice optics, they have a model
[BHT-..] that works very well even as a primary research grade
scope for about $3200 - this is much less than comparable scopes
from Nikon, Zeiss, Leitz... -- BTW, this is not their bottom
of the line in either optics or scope base - but I'm not sure
of prices for lower grade models -- the one above was a tri-ocular
compound scope, built in halogen light source, centerable 
'condenser (for Kohler illumination), Periplan Apochromats for 
the 4x, 10x, 20x, 45x (&100x??) objectives, and widefield oculars -
you can look thru this guy all day if you need to :-)

:: in no way connected with Olympus - just use their products
   and wish I could afford their stuff myself   ::
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Kostya LaPasha          paleo@ecsvax.uncecs.edu
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