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How are you measuring the aberration? Beads? Reflectance?
On 12/28/2011 2:46 PM, MODEL, MICHAEL wrote:
> Olympus. Their higher-NA objectives are fine
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> Hey, Mike--
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> On 12/28/2011 2:01 PM, MODEL, MICHAEL wrote:
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>> Both of our 10/0.4 planapo objectives have a bad longitudinal chromatic aberration between blue and far red (2.5 um axial shift with correct coverslip). Is this normal for low-power objectives?
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> What manufacturer? Not to trash any particular brand but I've seen
> problems that bad on 60x oil objectives from some makers and would
> expect a 10x objective to be even worse.
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> Martin
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