Re: Digital microscope to look at a single hair

From: GTO (gregor_o_at_NOSPAMyahoo.com)
Date: 11/18/04 

Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 06:43:59 GMT

Are you trying to do a morphological study of surface properties of hairs?
If yes, you will need a decent 100x oil immersion lens or at least polarized
light and a 40x APO lens with NA 0.95. But more importantly, you need to
correctly prepare your hair samples before observation. You may want to use
the ROX method by H. Reumuth [1]. Or contact the McCRONE Group at
http://www.mccrone.com/ for help.

There is no cheap microscope that is suitable for morphological studies of
surface properties of hairs. You may want to glance through [2] for some
ideas.

Gregor

[1] Krauter, Dieter; Mikroskopie im Alltag; Kosmos Franckh, 7th edition
(1971).
[2] http://www.modernmicroscopy.com/main.asp?article=51&print=true&pix=true

"Rosario" <saroxonline76@vodafone.it> wrote in message
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>I should develop an particular application under Windows using Visual
> Studio. I need a digital microscope, connected to the PC, to make an
> image analysis of a single hair, which has a thickness of 60-70 um.
> Do you have any suggestion to choose a digital microscope not so
> expensivo to do it.
> Of course any other information about this application is welcomed.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ps.: please answer to my email too