Variscope Series 200 -- 40x-1000x Trinocular Microscope with 9MP Camera

Premium Optics for High Quality Imaging: Included with the quadruple nosepiece are four multi-coated DIN 195mm objective lenses. Unlike lower grade objectives that tend to show false colors, these achromatic lenses are specially designed to correct color aberrations and display a true-color image. You get 4x, 10x, spring loaded 40x, and spring loaded oil immersion 100x objectives included with this microscope. For viewing, we provide a pair of premium grade wide-field 10x (18mm) eyepieces. This allows for magnification ranges of 40x, 100x, 400x and 1000x. We offer optional eyepieces as well. We have optional wide field eyepieces available in 15x, 16x, and 20x powers, giving you an enormous range of possible magnifications to 2000x.

Ultra-Comfort Ergonomic Microscope Design: This biological microscope has ergonomic features to make your microscope viewing as comfortable as possible. To begin, this microscope has an advanced Seidentopf-type microscope head. This gives you the absolute maximum flexibility and comfort in adjusting interpupillary distance. There is an interpupillary gauge so that different users can keep track of their own optimal space setting, this is a nice feature that is not available on all brands of microscopes. Cheaper models have a simple one-axis rack-and-pinion sliding adjustment head that is not nearly as easy to adjust. The main microscope head swivels 360 degrees for viewing from any angle, and the head itself sits at a comfortable 30 degree incline. The eyepieces have diopter focusing adjustments.

Advanced Focuser: This microscope has a state-of-the-art tension adjustable focuser that integrates coarse and fine focusing in a single knob. With the tension adjust, you can set the amount of pressure you have to apply to the fine focuser to make adjustments. This is extremely useful in dealing with wet-mount slides where the fine focus range is fairly large compared with prepared slides. The focusing controls are on both the right and left side of the scope allowing for easy adjustment with either the right or left hand.

Professional Mechanical Stage: This microscope has a full-featured, oversized 140mm x 140mm fully mechanical stage. The slide locks in place in the stage clip, and stage and slide holder can be moved with X-Y axis control knobs. The precision controls allow you to easily move the stage with fine precision, no fumbling the slide under the clips. There is a graduated scale printed on the slide holder to allow you to maintain a record of the location of various structures on a particular slide.

Built-in Adjustable Intensity Halogen Light: This microscope has a built-in 20 watt halogen bulb, with adjustable intensity light controls. Beware of cheaper models that use a tungsten bulb or have a simple on/off switch with no brightness controls. Two spare halogen bulbs are included with your microscope. The microscope has a built-in N.A. 1.25 Abbe condenser under the stage with an iris diaphragm. This advanced condenser can be focused separately with its own focus knob and gives you incredible control over the amount and focal length of light aimed at your specimen and is critical for high-powered magnification viewing. A swing-out filter holder is included as are a set of blue and green viewing filters.

Trinocular Microscope Port for Imaging: This model includes a trinocular imaging port to allow for the attachment of a film camera, digital camera (included), or CCD camera so you may capture and output your specimen images. A 23.2mm ocular adapter and a C-mount (CCD) adapter are included with the microscope. We also stock T-mount (T-ring) photo adapters, as well as T-rings for Nikon and Canon SLR and digital SLR cameras.

A Full Featured Professional Digital Microscope Camera: The included Variscope Digital Microscope Camera offers all of the features you would expect from a top-of-the-line digital microscopy set-up. Included with the camera is a fully-functioning software suite enabling you both to view video images of your specimens and to capture still frames. This microscope camera can be used for any digital microscopy application. The camera is ideal both for stereo microscopes and biological compound microscopes

Ideal for Video and Screen Output: This camera uses a 1/2.3" CMOS imaging chip (the same kind used in regular digital cameras) and USB 2.0 to output 3488 X 2616 pixel images, that's more than 9 Megapixels of information. This ultra high-resolution output is comparable to today's top-of-the-line digital still cameras, and exceeds high-def video. With 9MP you will be able to print poster size images at 150 dpi, and have crystal clear printed images at smaller sizes. The ultra high-resolution output makes this microscope camera ideal for presentation style displays such as projectors and large monitors. This is an ideal camera for shooting professional quality images for print and display applications.

Powerful Microscopy Software: Included with the camera is a comprehensive digital microscopy software editing suite. Compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Vista, the software outputs files in nearly every graphics format imaginable, including web standard JPEG, GIF and even Photoshop .psd files. The software allows you to measure angles, add graphics and text, and do color corrections and contrast adjustments right on your PC screen.