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Hi all,

I´m planning to find a substitute for our old confocal. Since I´m tired of
maintenance issues with costly short-lived lasers (around 1000 hours Argon
lasers costs 15000 euros in Spain), I was looking for a lamp-based system to
avoid wavelength limitations and costs. Am I wrong or is CARV-II the only
commercial system of these characteristics at the moment? Otherwise, are
recent lasers less expensive and short-lived?.

In addition, could any of you share experiences about commercial TIRF
systems? I would prefer a widefield system incorporating TIRF as an option
(I listened about a ring-shaped filters from Olympus)

Thanks