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Hello Julio,
Yes I am trying to mount a Nikon piezo on a Zeiss scope and then put an old
Zeiss objective on the Nikon piezo. 

Sripad


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Sorry, I read the post a bit too quickly... Are you planning to mount the
Nikon piezo with a Nikon objective on a Zeiss scope? because of the size of
Nikon objectives, maybe an older Zeiss mount would work better...i.e. find
adapter to mount Nikon piezo on Zeiss scope, and then adapter to mount old
Zeiss objective on Nikon piezo... these should both be possible.

Thor Labs may have such adapters...

http://www.thorlabs.us/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=1524

Julio 


On Jul 8, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Julio Vazquez wrote:

> Zeiss uses the M27 thread in their new microscope stands. This is
significantly larger than the old Zeiss mount, and a bit larger than Nikon.
Zeiss makes adapters from the old to the new M27 mount, so it should be
possible to get similar adapters from for Nikon objectives on the new Zeiss
scopes. In fact, I think Zeiss even has adapters to mount the new larger
objectives on the older scopes. However, all caveats mentioned by Chris
remain valid. In particular, Nikon objectives are huge compared to Zeiss
(Nikon 60x/1.4 Plan Apo is about 2 longer than the equivalent Zeiss.  
> 
> Julio Vazquez
> Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle, WA 98109
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