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Dear Confocal Listers,

I suggest that everyone try to get a demo of it in your labs, it would be interesting if they even would do such a thing. But then and only then can you truly know for sure whether it is a load of crock or not. As the old adage goes: Seeing is believing...

Pete

P.S. If they start to get protective of this technology and won't let you demo it, then you know that they are the swindlers that they seem to be.

On Oct 7, 2010, at 14:49 PM, Robert Fernandez wrote:

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> HI All
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> Here is some more information about the mystery microscope, all seems a bit strange to me but mildly entertaining too!
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> http://www.rife.de/index.html
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> Thanks
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> Robert
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> I agree, seems to be some pseudoscience, the image of the Richardson test slide on their webpage shows that the resolution is somewhere between 260 - 300 nm. 
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> OK, since I was asked to comment.  Nothing in this makes sense.  Why
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> should the 100nm resolution version cost so much more?  Maybe just so
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> that people don't buy it and so won't find out that it doesn't work?
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> There are several 100nm (or better) optical resolution microscopes you
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> can buy based on well published and dependable principles.  (Structured
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> There are also microscopes with extended depth of field (but no lateral
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> super-resolution).  Carol Cogswell was among those working in this
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> On 10/5/2010 12:49 AM, Andreas Bruckbauer wrote:
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>> Another mystery microscope:
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>> http://www.grayfieldoptical.com/
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> Does anybody (--Guy?  Barbara?  Jim?) have an idea of the optical 
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> principles underlying this instrument?  Has this been published 
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> These are surprising claims (e.g. 100 nm resolution in what appears to 
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> be a widefield microscope)...though lately, lord knows, there've been 
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> lots of surprises to be had.
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