Re: Buying a microscope. LOMO.

From: Joe Rat (nkvd31415_at_virgilio.it)
Date: 07/11/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 10:17:59 GMT

Malcolm Stewart <malcolm_stewart@megalith.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Don'tknow <microscopyinterest@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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> I've had a Lomo Biolam R11 (maybe R13) for over 30 years and it's still as
> good today as when I bought it, new. Equally, it's still got the fault
> designed into it which you need to check for if you wish to mount a camera
> on it. (Specially necessary if you wish to use a heavy digital SLR such
as
> an EOS10D)
> On mine the stage is mounted to the base, so that the focusing is done by
> raising and lowering the part holding the optics. This is OK in normal
use,
> but if I mount a camera there is a tendency for the optics part to
gravitate
> downwards. Other (non Lomo) microscopes I've acquired since getting the
> Lomo have had the optics fixed firmly to the base, and have focused by
> raising and lowering the stage.
>
> --
> M Stewart
> Milton Keynes, UK
>
>
>

Is there an importer in the UK of Lomo?

Regards

Joe Rat