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  • Looking for opinions on Student Microscopes

    From scigal@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 18 07:47:28 2016
    Hi all,

    I'm a lab technician at a college and researching a new purchase of 50 microscopes to be used by college level students (taking health science/ microbiology courses). We have microscopes currently and haven't been very happy with how they have held up
    in terms of not staying focused/ stage moving on its own etc. Hoping to make a better choice this time.

    Looking for a pretty basic microscope with 4-100x objective +oil, binocular, mechanical stage, fixed Kohler and LED illumination.

    Looking for recommendations on the following companies: Zeiss, Leica, Olympus, Nikon in terms of ease of use, durability, price etc.

    Thanks!

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  • From RustyHinge@21:1/5 to scigal on Tue Dec 6 16:03:23 2016
    On 18/11/16 15:47, scigal wrote:
    Hi all,

    I'm a lab technician at a college and researching a new purchase of 50 microscopes to be used by college level students (taking health science/ microbiology courses). We have microscopes currently and haven't been very happy with how they have held up
    in terms of not staying focused/ stage moving on its own etc. Hoping to make a better choice this time.

    Looking for a pretty basic microscope with 4-100x objective +oil, binocular, mechanical stage, fixed Kohler and LED illumination.

    Looking for recommendations on the following companies: Zeiss, Leica, Olympus, Nikon in terms of ease of use, durability, price etc.

    Look at Will, too

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