Re: Olympus service


No. Please wear your glasses! When you use a microscope you are actually looking at an infinite distance, like when you look out a window. Most people have some astigmatism which causes squinting so if you wear your glasses you will be more comfortable and the 'scope will operate better.

Thanks,
Kevin Cunningham
SMS



Thanks for the help. I think it may be better with my glasses. I don't wear them too often and find the eye relief on many optical instruments to be a bit restrictive. In other words I don't like losing some of the field which happens on a number of scopes and once you remove the rubber eye guards you can end up scratching non glass spectacle lenses.

Not that the 10x occulars are bad but as I move up to the 12.5 ... to the 20x I lose more of the field.

By the way have you ever come across any Vickers scopes? The m75 in particular as I noticed one on ebay now while I was looking for a vickers phase objective and can't recall ever seeing this model. Some of their scopes are not bad and often available quite cheaply in the UK.

Sean
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