Is your scope Köhler illuminated?

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I have my vote already - but I'd like to see some initial results without the bias of the pollmaker 🙂

 

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Lame poll.

 

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Lame poll.

Skew my data collection, you knave?

 

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Skew my data collection, you knave?

Kohler? WTF is that? 😉

 

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That's the response I got when I asked a resident to teach me. 😡

I tried to teach myself, but I don't know the anatomy of a scope too well.

The reason I am asking is because I see detail on the sign-out scope that I don't see on my own!

There is a rather cool Java tutorial here:

http://www.microscopyu.com/tutorials/java/kohler/

"Perhaps one of the most misunderstood and often neglected concepts in optical microscopy is proper configuration of the microscope with regards to illumination, which is a critical parameter that must be fulfilled in order to achieve optimum performance...

...The currently accepted method of microscope illumination was first described by Dr. August Köhler in the late 1800s, and is still widely (almost exclusively) employed for modern microscopes over 100 years later."

 

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Hmm Spent a whole lab meeting talking about this one. Esp impt for high res