Re: New microscope for DIC brightfield and darkfield imaging

So now its down to the final round.

Zeiss Axio Imager M1m and Olympus BX61. The price difference is less
than 1%. Both have now given 20-25% off their initial price.

The difference: 37 vs 37.5 Kg.
Zeiss has lower NA on the 20x objective, but has promised to replace
the long working distance 20X when a new objective is in production.

Zeiss has C-DIC and Olympus has DIC. I cannon say that I did notice
much differences at first, but I would like to have someone else's
view on the strength and weakness off the two methods. C-DIC uses
circularly polarized light rather than linearly polarized light.

Olympus has better support in 3rd parity software, but that can change
as the BX61 has been around a few years and Zeiss is quite new.

Olympus has been quite agressive when they realized Zeiss is starting
to deliver "high end" research microscopes to our institute.

Both Zeiss and Olympus has shown that they have are very competent
people working in our area.

Any comments on Olympus vs Leica?
I will probably send the orders early next week. It is always
interesting what other users experiences has been.

Regards

Runar

On Apr 23, 4:34 pm, Kevin Sunley <umsun...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi Runar,

We have an Imager Z1 here. It's great, excellent even when it works.
However being 99% computer controlled, when there is a problem the
trouble-shooting can be a bit of a pain.

It comes in a non- or less-motorized configuration which I can't comment
on. However I expect it would be a little less frustrating sometimes,
although at the expense of giving up the automation features.
Automation is amazing when it is required, but can create a whole
unnecessary layer of potencial problems when it's not.

The images from the Zeiss optics and cameras are amazing. I personally
don't find the integration of their software and hardware as seemless as
I'd like. This is likely a result of the automation again though, if
you were to buy a manual configuration most of my comments don't really
apply.

They have an imager for materials science. Ours is set up for
biological fluorescence.

Hope that helps,

Kevin

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Does Nikon have LabView instrument drivers? I have found the driver
to Olympus on ni.com, but not for Nikon.
We have site license for pretty much all software from NI.

Also, suddenly Zeiss wants to sell microscopes. They have now changed
their organization and sells microscopes directly to customers. I
will check their offerings later this week. They claim that they will
be competitive also on the price. Does anyone have comments on the
Axio Imager?

- Runar

Zeiss has always wanted to sell microscopes, just most times they
didn't know how to sell. They used to be no. 2, then then went direct
and they fell to no. 3. They still haven't really got dealers though.

The Axio Imager is a neat 'scope if you can afford it and you do bio.
I expect a few to show up locally (in the SE, USA) in the next year.

Thanks

Kevin Cunningham
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