🔬 Should you buy new Eyepieces and Plan objectives?

Is it worth upgrading your microscope to plan objectives and new eyepeices?

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[shivercanada]

Agreed! I bought a $500 microscope and returned it because I was not impressed with the quality but loved the exploration. I ended up getting a new model with plan objectives, trinocular, infinity focusing and Kohler illumination. It also has a filter bay for my Darkfield filters I 3d printed. Cost was about just under $1000 US plus tax but i recommend it if you can as you use it for a lifetime! I’m so excited to get it!!

[vijaygangurde]

Father of amateur microscopy- Oliver Kim

[thoughtsbright]

Hi can you make a phase contrast objective by adding a dark circle to both the objective and eyepiece
also, can you make a condenser homemade or not and is the condenser necessary.,

Because in my country the microscope is a little bit more expensive so I just can afford an inductory microscope(sw150 mostly) with prepared slides and a microscope with the condenser above $266 so is it really a must-have feature keep in mind that it is the second microscope get after a toy one so I am a beginner and i know a little bit of microscopy from your videos as well as your "OK biology" channel according to biology do you know microbiology only or overall biology for example i was going to send my biology book but i am afraid of law sutis so i am not gonna sent it but i hope you understand my question

Thank you

[pinkpanther]

Can you show a video of plan objectives and non-plan objectives so people can see?

[tapariayogesh]

Thank you for taking my question for the video. It does clear a lot of things.

[ElectricityTaster]

Are E-Plan objectives planar? I've seen achromatics, semi-plan, e-plan, and plan. Do they all use the same screw?

[athomenotavailable]

Also if you are mounting a phone to capture your images, you have to zoom in by a lot and so the sides will be cropped out anyway,

[edward_grabczewski]

Perhaps it also depends on how the objective is manufactured, whether or not it needs a new eyepiece. Presumably the PLAN objectives are designed to give a flat image independently of the eyepiece, so no further correction is required as far as focus is concerned - otherwise they should include a matching eyepiece with the PLAN objectives, which doesn't seem to be the case for generic Chinese manufactured PLAN objectives.

[ksenyamichalewska]

I purchased PLAN objectives for my old microscope that has 20.3mm sockets for eyepieces, and the view is worse than with the old Achromats. I suppose that my eyepieces are not PLAN compatible. Are there 20.3mm PLAN eyepieces?

[surajradhakrishnan]

Can you suggest some books for amature microbhunters?

[tiburd]

AmScope makes several low-cost plan objectives for 160mm tube length.

[pinkpanther]

Hmmm.... If you wanted to re-use slides cleaning and re-applying things to look at would it be just as clear to use two slides instead of a cover slip? The cover slips are so frail. I don't like them.

[ever.rip.]

Wow, thank you so much for explaining all this!

[bendirval]

Eyepieces seem to get scratched, dirty, and damaged, and those defects are extremely visible when looking through the eyepieces. I find it difficult to clean eyepieces and there's nothing that can be done about damage to them. If you buy an old used microscope, new eyepieces would seem to be a pretty high priority. Plus they are relatively affordable, it seems.

[BritishBeachcomber]

Hi Microbehunter. I'm thinking of buying a microscope with Infinity plan achromatic objectives. What is your opinion. Would it be a good choice

[TomFrajer]

Thanks, you are very good teacher, very clear explanations :)

[zachallerton]

Is it worth purchasing Plan Apochromatic Objectives for visual work? In other words, do you see a significant improvement in viewing with Plan APO objectives? Thank you Oliver!