Re: Reichert objectiv replacment, leica or AO possibly

Sometimes Kevin is right on the money, and sometimes his bias in
microscopes that's based on his years in service creeps up (Seeing
broken or heavily used instruments all day tends to sometimes cloud
the judgement).

While the 410 wasn't a great scope, and mechanically it's made of
fairly cheap materials and construction, it's still a useful
instrument, and they still sit on many pathologists' desks. What I
don't think that Kevin realizes is that there were some *very* nice
objectives made for that instrument. In particular the 10x and 40x
plan fluor were *amazing* objectives, and until the late 90's were
still being hand made in Vienna. The successor of the 410 was
Leica's "ATC2000", any objective from that series will work in the
410.

The 410 uses infinity corrected objectives with an RMS thread size.
You could probably pick up some decent objectives from Meiji, Olympus,
or Zeiss that will work surprisingly well, OR you could luck into some
of those great Vienna Fluors. I cannot stress enough how great those
Fluors were, I would compare them against ANY of today's top
manufacturers' objectives and I suspect they would come out on top.
Call a local microscope company that deals in used instruments and ask
them if it'd be ok to come in and try a few objectives. They should
be happy to help.

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