Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey, go for the famous Olympus IMT-2 inverted microscope!! Thib. At 11:58 25/02/1999 +0000, you wrote: >Mitch wrote: >> My wife is a microscopist and deals with Leica <on topic>, Zeiss, >> Olympus and other major optical vendors on a very regular basis >> (one of her optical microscopes cost $160K; she also uses electron >> microsopes, but that's another discussion and much higher cost). > >> In her field (according to her), Olympus has made great strides >> towards parity with the big boys. She has said on occasion, that >> with some 'scopes the major differences are not with the optics, >> but with the hardware features the 'scope provides. She says Leica >> and Zeiss still have the edge optically, but Olympus is getting to >> be a very strong contender. > >I am also a microscopist, and I think your wife is spot-on in every >particular. In fact, I'd say that the Olympus inverted microscope >base is the best designed and executed platform currently on the >market, and that their optics equal those of Nikon. The difference >between Leica/Zeiss and Olympus/Nikon still exists in some areas, >but it diminishes with each passing year. > >There is about as much variation between samples of a particular >objective from a given company as there is between comparable >objectives from different companies. > >I'd choose an Olympus research 'scope in a flat second. >.......................................................................... >Alexey Merz | URL: http://www.webcom.com/alexey | email: alexey@webcom.com > | PGP public key: http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu/ | voice:503/494-6840 > >