microscopes

[John Noyes]

On the off-chance - does anyone know the whereabouts of a post 1970 Leitz
dissecting microscope which is available for purchase? I have been trying
to find one for years without success.

John

At 09:51 AM 2/16/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>I don't know the Meiji name, but I have been an Olympus fan for many years
>and presently own four of their scopes--two compound research scopes with
>Nomarski and two topflight dissecting scopes.
>
>Olympus are also much less expensive than the "Caddilacs" and "Lincolns" of
>the field, but as far as I can tell are optically and mechanically on a par
>with them.
>
>The cost of my four Olympus scopes probably would have purchase one high
>end research compound scope from Nikon, Leitz, et al.
>
>
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