Clint, We have a Leica MZ125 scope with a Leica KL1500 LCD lightsource. It has adjustable zoom from 8x to 160x with the 16x occular lenses but can do up to 640x with a different occular. We also opted for the optional optical micrometer and polarizing lenses for looking at birefringence. Additionally, they sell an attachment for hooking up a digital camera to take pictures of your crystals.
This scope went for about 8k or so a year ago which is a little more than you're looking to spend but the optics are great and it beats out any scope I've used thus far even though I've only been doing crystallography for 4 years. Cheers, Jim On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Clint Spiegel <spie...@biology.ucsc.edu>wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking to buy a modestly-priced zoom scope for x-ray > crystallographic purposes ($2-3000). Does anyone have suggestions about > what/where to possibly find this? I currently have a cheap one that goes > from 7.5-50X, but I'd like something with a little more magnification, a > better light source and better optics. > > Thanks, > Clint > > > Clint Spiegel > Assistant Professor, Chemistry > Western Washington University > 516 High Street > Bellingham, WA 98225-9150. > -- Jim Fairman Graduate Research Assistant Department of Biochemistry, Cellular, and Molecular Biology (BCMB) University of Tennessee -- Knoxville 216-368-3337 jfair...@utk.edu james.fair...@case.edu
