COMPARE: Advanced Seidentopf 2D Adjustible Stereoscopic Microscope Head  

30 degree Inclined Head Rotates 360 Degrees 

COMPARE: Professional Graduated X-Y Mechanical Slide Holder (not clips!)  

COMPARE: Variable Intensity Halogen Lighting  

Quadruple Nosepiece Includes Four Fully-Coated Achormatic DIN Objectives -- 4x/10x/40x (spring loaded)/100x (oil) 

Two Sets of Wide-Field Stereo Eyepieces Included, 10x & 20x. 

COMPARE: Professional Tension Adjustable Fine/Coarse Focus Knob 

NA 1.25 Abbe Condenser With Stand-Alone Focuser and Iris Diaphragm 

Swing-Out Filter Holder with Blue & Green Filters Included 

Molded Rubber Eyecups and Plastic Microscope Dust Cover

5 Year Warranty & 100% Satisfaction Guarantee   

This is a brand new, factory sealed, Variscope Series 862 microscope: We have found this incredible new brand of premium quality microscopes and are now making them available for sale direct to the public with a special arrangement with the factory. The Variscope microscope family of optical instruments is made by one of the largest "private label" optical component fabricators in the world. Your microscope is made by the same technicians and on the same production line as optical instruments for the world's leading optical instrument brands. While this is the same instrument you might see in a science catalog for thousands of dollars, by developing the Variscope brand, the factory is able to sell the same product directly to us for much, much less. This microscope is brand new and has never been removed from the original factory packaging.

Premium Optics for High Quality Imaging: Included with the quadruple nosepiece are four multi-coated DIN 195mm objective lenses. Unlike lower grade objectives that tend to show false colors, these achromatic lenses are specially designed to correct color aberrations and display a true-color image. You get 4x, 10x, spring loaded 40x, and spring loaded oil immersion 100x objectives included with this microscope. For viewing, we provide two sets of premium grade wide-field eyepieces, a pair of 10x (18mm) eyepieces and a pair of 20x (10mm) eyepieces. This allows for magnification ranges of 40x, 80x, 100x, 200x, 400x, 800x, 1000x, and 2000x. We offer optional eyepieces in our our eBay store as well. We have optional wide field eyepieces available in 15x, and 16x powers, giving you an enormous range of possible magnifications.

Ultra-Comfort Ergonomic Microscope Design: This biological microscope has ergonomic features to make your microscope viewing as comfortable as possible. To begin, this microscope has an advanced Seidentopf-type microscope head. This gives you the absolute maximum flexibility and comfort in adjusting interpuplillary distance. There is an interpupilary gauge so that different users can keep track of their own optimal space setting, this is a nice feature that is not available on all brands of microscopes. Cheaper models have a simple one-axis rack-and-pinion sliding adjustment head that is not nearly as easy to adjust. The main microscope head swivels 360 degrees for viewing from any angle, and the head itself sits at a comfortable 30 degree incline. The eyepieces have diopter focusing adjustments.

Advanced Focuser: This microscope has a state-of-the-art tension adjustable focuser that integrates coarse and fine focusing in a single knob. With the tension adjust, you can set the amount of pressure you have to apply to the fine focuser to make adjustments. This is extremely useful in dealing with wet-mount slides where the fine focus range is fairly large compared with prepared slides. The focusing controls are on both the right and left side of the scope allowing for easy adjustment with either the right or left hand.

Professional Mechanical Stage: This microscope has a full-featured, oversized 140mm x 140mm fully mechanical stage. The slide locks in place in the stage clip, and stage and slide holder can be moved with X-Y axis control knobs. The precision controls allow you to easily move the stage with fine precision, no fumbling the slide under the clips. There is a graduated scale printed on the slide holder to allow you to maintain a record of the location of various structures on a particular slide.

Built-in Adjustable Intensity Halogen Light: This microscope has a built-in 20 watt halogen bulb, with adjustable intensity light controls. Beware of cheaper models that use a tungsten bulb or have a simple on/off switch with no brightness controls. Two spare halogen bulbs are included with your microscope. The microscope has a built-in N.A. 1.25 Abbe condenser under the stage with an iris diaphragm. This advanced condenser can be focused separately with its own focus knob and gives you incredible control over the amount and focal length of light aimed at your specimen and is critical for high-powered magnification viewing. A swing-out filter holder is included as are a set of blue and green viewing filters.