COMPARE: Advanced Seidentopf 2D Adjustible Stereoscopic Microscope Head  

30 degree Inclined Head Rotates 360 Degrees 

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

COMPARE: Premium 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) 

10x Wide-Field Stereo Eyepieces Included. 

Left/Right Dual Focusing Allows Coarse & Fine Focus 

Spiral-type Abbe Condenser and Iris Diaphragm 

Swing-Out Filter Holder with Blue & Green Filters Included

Molded Rubber Eyecups and Plastic Microscope Dust Cover   

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 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 a pair of premium grade wide-field 10x (18mm) eyepieces. This allows for magnification ranges of 40x, 100x, 400x and 1000x. We offer optional eyepieces in our our eBay store as well. We have optional wide field eyepieces available in 15x, 16x, and 20x powers, giving you an enormous range of possible magnifications to 2000x.

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. 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. The independent coarse and fine focusing knobs are on both the right and left side of the scope allowing for easy adjustment with either the right or left hand.

Large Mechanical X-Y Slide Holder: Unlike most cheaper models on the market that have simple slide clips, this microscope has a 115mm x 125mm stage with a fully mechanical X-Y axis slide holder. With this functionality, you can easily move the slide around on 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. Most microscopes at this price range do not offer this feature.

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 are included with the microscope. We also stock T-mount (T-ring) photo adapters in our eBay store, as well as T-rings for Nikon and Canon SLR and digital SLR cameras.

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 spiral-type N.A. 1.25 Abbe condenser under the stage with an iris diaphragm. This advanced condenser 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.