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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?

On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Mark Cannell <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

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> 2x2 cm -have you thought about a commercial macro lens?
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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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