Tom, we were going to buy one of those lenses a couple of years ago when
we set up out BioRad 1024 system. We actually had the money to get the
lens, but Olympus were unable to supply one  - after waiting a year or
so, we gave up and used the money for something else... I'd be very
interested to see how you go, since we find the oil and water lenses
really very good (especially the 60x oil)

IAN


Tom Phillips wrote:
>
> 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
>
> 3 Tucker Hall
> Division of Biological Sciences
> University of Missouri
> Columbia, MO 65211-7400
> (573)-882-4712 (voice)
> (573)-882-0123 (fax)

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