Full-featured, Rear-Mounted, Epi-Illumination Lighting System for 'Through-the-Objective' Specimen Lighting.  

Incident Illumination Includes Iris Diaphragm, Four-Color Filter Wheel, Built-In Circular Polarizing Filter. 

COMPARE: 10X Super Wide-Field 20mm Eyepieces, 15x Wide-Field Eyepieces, PLUS Measuring Reticle Eyepiece and micrometer calibration slide.  

Trinocular Head: Allows Attachment Of Film Cameras, Digital Cameras, Or CCD Video Or Digital Video Cameras  

Advanced Kohler Lower Illumination System 

Professional Tension Adjustable Fine/Coarse Focus Knob With Hard Stop Adjustment 

Built-In Voltage Transformer (uses 110v or 220v power) 

Advanced Seidentopf 2D Adjustible Stereoscopic Microscope Head 

30 degree Inclined Head Rotates 360 Degrees 

Oversized Professional Stage With Glass Insert and X-Y Motion Controls

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

This is a brand new, factory sealed, Variscope 865510-D microscope: We are now making Variscope microscopes 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.

Exceptional Selection of Eyepieces & Objectives: This microscope has everything you would expect from a world-class optical instrument. Included with the quintuple nosepiece are four multi-coated, plan objective lenses. You get four objectives: 4x, 10x, 40x, and 60x objectives included with this microscope. For viewing, we provide a super-wide field pair of 10x eyepieces. These eyepieces have a 20mm field of view, provide long eye relief and are vastly superior to the standard 16mm or 18mm FOV eyepieces normally provided with compound microscopes. Also included is a pair of 15x super wide-field eyepieces. With the eyepieces, you'll enjoy magnifications of 40x, 60x, 100x, 150x, 400x, 600x, and 900x. We also include an additional 10x eyepiece with a built-in crosshair reticle and a calibration micrometer slide. We offer optional eyepieces in our our eBay store as well.

Full-Featured Epi-Illumination Microscopy: Metallurgical microscopes are different from standard compound or biological microscopes. Specimens that are opaque and will not allow light to pass through them must be illuminated with frontal lighting. With this microscope, the light source originates in a unit near the microscope head and passes through the microscope objective and directly onto the specimen. The light can be modified with a four-color filter wheel (yellow, green, blue, neutral) and can be polarized with a sliding circular polarizer. The epi-illumination system is contained in a rear housing. The light can be fully adjusted and centered for precision lamp.

Lower Kohler Halogen Illumination System: A Kohler illumination system is critical to achieving bright, and even lighting across the entire field of view without glare. Also, because Kohler illumination places the bulb at a considerable distance from the specimen, there is virtually no heating of the specimen caused by a hot halogen bulb. This microscope uses an advanced double-diaphragm illumination system to allow control both a field diaphragm and an iris diaphragm. The halogen light uses a 20 watt bulb, with adjustable intensity light 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.

Professional Glass Insert Mechanical Stage: This microscope has a full-featured, oversized 180mm x 150mm fully mechanical stage. The stage can be moved with X-Y axis control knobs. The precision controls allow you to easily move the stage with fine precision.

Professional 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. This microscope also features a fully-adjustable stop lock mechanism which allows you to instantly set the upper most range of the stage during focusing. This is used to guarantee that you will not crack the slide or damage the objective during focusing. 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.

Trinocular Microscope Port for Imaging: This model includes a trinocular imaging port to allow for the attachment of a film camera, digital camera, or CCD camera so you may capture and output your specimen images. A 23.2mm ocular adapter and a C-mount (CCD) adapter is included with this microscope. T-mount (T-ring) photo adapters are available in our eBay store, as well as T-rings for Nikon and Canon SLR and digital SLR cameras.

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.

Built-in Transformer: This microscope has a built-in voltage transformer. As a result, the microscope can be used world-wide with either 110v power (USA) or 220v power (world-wide). A USA type-plug adapter is supplied.