From owner-celegans@net.bio.net Mon Apr 06 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "E. Jane Albert Hubbard" Newsgroups: bionet.celegans Subject: stereomicroscope bases/mirrors Date: 7 Apr 1998 04:34:11 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 33 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: wmorgan@acs.wooster.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <6gd2vj$lck@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Dear fellow worm-pickers, For your info - different ways to see a worm... I am currently using a new stereomicroscope base from Zeiss that is ergonomically excellent (low height, sloped sides) and has a tilting mirror (I have heard that Diagnostics is coming out with something similar). In addition, the specific one I am using has an interchangeable mirror - either flat or concave (there are advantages and disadvantages to each mirror depending on what you are scoring). For those of you may have been accustomed to the optics from a concave mirror with the old Diagnostics base (as was I) and found that their concave mirror was no longer available, this set-up gives very similar optics. You can send inquiries directly to your Zeiss rep or to Chris Souwand (the production manager for this base) at csouwand@zeiss.com. Or you can e-mail me with any specific worm-view- related questions. Jane ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ E. Jane Albert Hubbard Department of Biology New York University 1009 Main Building 100 Washington Square East New York, NY 10003-6688 e-mail: jane.hubbard@nyu.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .