Roger;
 
I mis-spoke in my last reply.
 
The XYZ stage has a travel of 25mm in XY and 5mm in Z.
 
Sorry,
 
Tom
 
>  The Leica system is excellent-I have seen it.  My reservations regarding the
>piezo-electric stage remain and are amplified by the comments from Martin
>Hoppe.  The "sample weight which can be put on the stage is 250 grams."  In my
>own application I need to use a fixed stage carrying several kilograms of
>apparatus (primarily micromanipulators) which are used with an in vivo
>preparation.  The point is that the Leica system is simply not suited for what
>I need.  I am not criticizing Leica, rather, I am looking for a different
>solution to the rapid z-scanning problem.
>  Still no comments on the new Olympus America "Fluoview" scope.
>
>  Roger Adamson
>
>
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