"(they had bought it from an industrial lab that closed), and so I want particularly to thank Kathleen Sayce for looking at the listing for me and telling me which questions I needed to ask,' So exactly how would one eval a used optical instrument over EBay? Educational and industrial grade mics are notorious for being abused. M On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 2:23 PM, James Frelichowski < butterflyamaryllis@yahoo.com> wrote: > Jealous, lol. Great find!! > > > > > On Saturday, March 1, 2014 12:17 PM, Ellen Hornig <hornig@oswego.edu> > wrote: > > After I asked the list a while back for advice about dissecting > microscopes, I ventured onto eBay and made an astounding catch: an > Accu-Scope 3076 trinocular microscope with zoom, detachable 2x objective > lens, and 10x and 20x eyepieces, with a boom stand, a Micrometrics 318 > digital camera, and a Dolan-Jenner Fiber-Lite M1-150 fiber-optic > illuminator (with both a ring light and dual gooseneck cables), all for > $400, which was ridiculously low. The seller did not know what they had > (they had bought it from an industrial lab that closed), and so I want > particularly to thank Kathleen Sayce for looking at the listing for me and > telling me which questions I needed to ask, and why. She's a born teacher - > she picked up perfectly on how little I knew about where to even start, and > took it from there. Thanks, Kathleen! > > Over the course of two days I have set it all up, downloaded manuals for > everything and software for the camera (thank goodness for the Internet), > and started to play. I haven't yet had a chance to botanize (20" of snow > on the ground), but I have found the most amazing peripheral benefit in > just having the microscope sitting here at my elbow beside my desk: it's > made a kid of me again. I have a lot of natural objets strewn about the > house: stones, shells, feathers, etc; and I find myself repeatedly grabbing > some new thing and putting it under the microscope for inspection. I would > highly recommend this to anyone suffering from cabin fever. You will > remember how beautiful nature is, and what a joy it is to contemplate it > with no other motive than to enjoy its beauty. > > And that's why I wrote: to encourage everyone to get themselves a stereo > microscope and see the world anew. Do it! > > Ellen > -- > Ellen Hornig > 212 Grafton St > Shrewsbury MA 01545 > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >