Re: Meiji, Motic, Martin Microscope


"Too_Many_Tools" <too_many_tools@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Meiji is as second rate instrument while Motic is crap. If you want
me to
go on I will with great gusto."

I for one would love to read a step by step breakdown and review of a
Chinese scope (ex. Motic) and a discussion of what steps were taken to
reduce quality to make the price setpoint.

TMT

Ok, I've got some time so I can vent my spleen properly. Small time 'scope
makers primarily make instruments to a price point, a very low price point.
A cheapy maker usually makes to a bio market, like high school or primary
school. Then they go back in time before Dr. Kohler't time (app 1905) so
things like condensers and quality focus aren't used.

If it's made for a more advanced market like freshmen and sophomores in
college the maker usually uses the form of an Olympus CH and then doesn't
use the beautifull mechanics, just the form. The big advantage for Olympus
owners is that Olympus uses good materials like brass, bronze, high grade
aluminum and steel. The cheapo makers use stuff based on price. What
happens is the elegant simplicty of the CH is defeated by the fact the the
cheapo makers are to dump to produce like that. They use cheap metals of
short length to produce short life instruments.

Then there's the optics. When I was trained I learned that removing optics
from their case took precision however removing cheapo optics from their
case requires no precision just luck that they won't fall apart. Rather
than being precisely aligned and shimmed, these parts just fall out from
gravity or wind. Rather than being designed, these are copied and poorly
copied at that. Mostly these are made by copying and the copies are diluted
by poor manufacture.

So bad materials choice, bad mechanical design and bad optics. That just
about says it all. In the past they look like dung but now the cheapos
look, well, cheap.

Oh, all monoculars should be avoided, they cause tons of eye problems.

Thanks,

Kevin Cunningham
SMS


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