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I
thought I should share some good news for a change.
We recently
had a 63x oil objective with a large amount of oil inside. I had actually
posted some strange results we had when our fluorescence was in focus but not
the DIC. This oil meniscus actually created a new fluorescence image plan. We decided
to send the objective back to Zeiss in Germany for repair. The estimated cost
for the repair was about $6200. Unfortunately they have to quote the maximum possible
cost.
I
receive the objective back recently and I was amazed. It looks brand new! It
ended up only costing us $2200 and in my opinion this objective was in very bad
shape.
So if
you have some good lens that need to be repaired I would highly recommend you
send them in!
Of
course it would be better if the oil never got inside of the lenses, but I was
very impressed by the job done by Zeiss.
No
commercial interest just a happy customer!
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Claire M. Brown, PhD
Life Sciences Complex Imaging Facility Director
McGill University Department of Biochemistry
http://www.lifesciencescomplex.mcgill.ca/imaging
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