Dear Patrick and confocalists,
you will find relevant data on Olympus objektives including working distance
on their home page:

http://www.olympus-europa.com/mikro/uis_tlrl.htm

Best regards,
Konstantin



Patrick Van Oostveldt wrote:

> Dear,
>
> Using confocal microscopy one of the limiting points is the working
> distance of the lens. This is engraved on the new Nikon lenses but not on
> other lenses.
> Is there out there any user that has a table of all lenses and their
> working distance?
> Does any one has experience of the practical measuring of working
> distances?
> If any body there givs me the information I will be glad to post a summary
> on this.
>
> Greetings
>
> Patrick Van Oostveldt
> Lab. Biochemistry and Molecular Cytology
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>
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