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> Good suggestion! A commercial macro lens might work well. Could you
> recommend a lens, and a monochrome sensor that can stream to a computer?
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> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Mark Cannell <
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>> 2x2 cm -have you thought about a commercial macro lens?
>> Cheers
>> On 3/03/2013, at 3:59 PM, Andrew York <
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>>> I'm looking for some advice about buying or building my own low-mag
>>> brightfield microscope. I want the following capabilities:
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>>> * Brightfield illumination
>>> * Cheap ccd or cmos camera with as many pixels as possible (>10 MP
>>> ideally), no eyepieces required, acquiring to a computer.
>>> * Large field of view, ~2x2 cm
>>> * Adjustable zoom would be nice, over a moderate range (maybe a factor
>> of 4)
>>> * Resolution limited by camera pixel size rather than aberrations or
>>> diffraction (if possible)
>>> * Manual controls, no automation required in the optics
>>> * Room between the objective and the tube lens for a dichroic, which I
>>> might want to insert later, for free-space coupling of illumination
>> beams.
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>>> Is there an obvious commercial solution that is good and cheap? If not,
>> any
>>> advice on where to buy the components is appreciated.
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