After side by side demo's of Nikon and Olympus inverted microscopes,
I have decided to buy 2 Olympus inverted scopes for a variety of
reasons (including Olympus made me a fantastic deal on cost). One
scope with be for my new Biorad Radiance 2000 and the other for a
deconvolution set up (Isn't life tough?) .

  I intend to buy 10 objectives including three 60x objectives (LWD
Plan FLuorite NA 0.7, Plan Apo Oil NA 1.4, and a Plan Apo water NA
1.2).  Olympus makes a "special" Plan Apo Water Immersion with the
same NA but with a "guaranteed" PSF.  My rep is somewhat vague on
this point but apparently this is one that has gone through an extra
round of quality control and has a better PSF.  It costs several
thousand more.  I plan to demo them both but was wondering if any
Olympus users of either or both of these objectives wanted to comment
on or off the public listserver.  Thanks, Tom
Thomas E. Phillips, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Director, Molecular Cytology Core Facility

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