Reichert Microscope

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 6:57 am

Hello all,

I am new to this forum as well to microscopy.
Interested in photomicrography, I just bought a Reichert microcope and would like to know if anyone knows where to find a manual, parts list or any other information about it.
I plan to attach a Canon 350D (rebel XT) on it.

Thank you,

Reichert 256415
http://www.macro-micro-members.net/Gall ... m=62&pos=0

Sergio Zalewska · Post by **Sergio Zalewska** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 7:16 am

Sorry if the post was entered as "guest"
I am learning how to do it

Sergio

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 1:34 pm

Welcome to the forums Sergio!

A pleasure to have you aboard and do not worry about having signed in as a guest. We all forget to log in from time to time.

As for your microscope, that looks to be one soild built instrument and nice but I am sorry to say that I would not know where to begin in looking for a manual on it. I suppose you have searched the web to no avail? There maybe some of our other members here who may know something however, so don't give up. One or two of them are microscope collectors, if I am not mistaken.

lacerta · Post by **lacerta** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:08 pm

Sergio,
Try the Martin Microscope company at www.martinmicroscope.com.
They have been in business since 1946 and have been a longtime distributor for American Optical/ Reichert, along with Wild/Lietz scopes and parts. I still think they have an extensive inventory, and perhaps some the owner's manuals. It's worth a try. Good luck. I have a Reichert Stereo Star Zoom and am quite impressed with it.
George

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 3:41 am

Try this link Sergio http://www.reichertms.com/ref_man.php

Sergio Zalewska · Post by **Sergio Zalewska** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:35 am

Thank you guys, but after a looong search, no literature available.
Anyhow, I was able to attach my camera to it thanks to an adapter sold in Ebay (brand Sonia, from India), and now I am learning how to deal with the scope+camera. I am very short on budget, so I am doing some improvements in a DIY way, with material available.
Just a first post of a sugar crystal you can see in my gallery:

http://www.macro-micro-members.net/Gall ... at=0&pos=0

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 1:56 am

Sergio,

You might try also posting a request to the Yahoo Microscope group, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Microscope. They have a different set of resources than this forum.

It is an interesting picture of your sugar crystals. Much better than what else Google finds for "sugar polarized" images. Which sugar is this?

--Rik

Sergio Zalewska · Post by **Sergio Zalewska** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:52 am

Thank you Rik,
I just performed a "sugar polarized" image search in Google and got just two not interesting images. it is strange because I am using ordinary sugar cane sugar and got a lot of different nice patterns. I will post more pictures that I will take this weekend. I just took out the lamp from the scope and replaced it by a normal 50W halogen bulb. The illumination improved tremendously. Cost of illumination device: 7,00 USD.
I place the slide between two polarizer filter from my camera. Cheap set-up.

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 10:20 am

Sergio, I got probably those same two not very interesting patterns. And I agree it is strange. I was expecting page after page of images directed at kids' education, if nothing else.
--Rik

Sergio Zalewska · Post by **Sergio Zalewska** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:26 pm

But my crystals are not there, so I think that the search tool is not so smart....

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:52 pm

It will take Google quite a while to find your images, and even then it may decide not to index them.

Using the title directive within your HTML <img> tag helps a lot and may even be required, e.g. title="Microscope image of ordinary cane sugar, through crossed polarizers" .

I have not been able to find good info on exactly what procedure Google uses to index images.

--Rik

Sergio Zalewska · Post by **Sergio Zalewska** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 9:52 am

New crystal images:

http://www.macro-micro-members.net/Gall ... p?album=70

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 10:32 am

Lovely!

BTW, regarding Google indexing of images...

At http://www.janrik.net/insects/ExtendedDOF/index.html, I have two images of a Sulphur butterfly head. Only one of them is indexed. Both images have title directives, but only the one that is indexed has alt, and clearly Google has indexed all of the words in the alt tag.

So I think what I should have said was that:

Using the alt directive within your HTML <img> tag helps a lot and may even be required, e.g. alt="Microscope image of ordinary cane sugar, through crossed polarizers" .

This makes sense, since the alt tag is what a browser will show if you turn off image display.

--Rik