I like our BioRad and the suport has been quite good.  I saw the new
Olympus instrument at Cell Biology and was very impressed; it's also
pretty cheap, and includes a bunch of useful software including either
surface or volume rendering (can't remember which) and pretty much the
same functionsas COMOS in the BioRad system.  I felt it was a very nice
package.  Not so automatic as the BioRad, but the adjustments were all
very simple and right where you could reach them while you used it.  Good
setup.  I don't know of any that are installed though.

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On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Martin Wessendorf wrote:

> Dear confocalers--
>
> A friend is in the market for a confocal and has asked me which confocal is
> best.  Price is not a huge consideration, but he's not in the range of a
> 2-photon instrument.  Anyone compared the Big Three (Leica, Zeiss, Bio-Rad)
> recently and want to stick out their neck with an opinion of their relative
> strengths?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Martin Wessendorf, PhD
> Univ Minnesota
>