I will be making sure they are the right objectives in every way before I purchase anything. I’d just like to know where I can start looking. I added a 60x a while back, it was really cheap but works surprisingly well considering I payed like 20$ CAD for it. Parfocality is just about the same as my stock objectives, just a slight turn of the fine focus. That said, I’d like to spend more and get a whole new set of higher quality objectives.

I’d love to hear feedback if someone here has switched out objectives on this particular model. I do not need to hear that my microscope sucks haha, I’m a hobbyist so its not a big concern of mine at this time.

  • MagpieOPEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    Thanks! I will keep that in mind when hunting for some new ones.

    • SalamanderMA
      1·
      1 month ago

      Alright! Some other tips:

      • Your current microscope is a 160 mm system, so make sure that the objectives are 160 mm and not infinity.
      • Make sure the objectives have an RMS thread
      • Once you move into higher-end objectives, you will have objectives that are specialized. For example, ‘phase contrast’ objectives have a dark ring inside of them. For the olympus brand their name often ends in ‘PL’. These work with bright-field too. My 40/1.30 objective is actually a phase-contrast objective because I did not know this and ChatGPT told me it meant something different 😂 However, the objective does work well for me and I am now considering upgrading to a phase contrast-capable microscope (the BH2), so I made a good choice by accident.
      • MagpieOPEnglish
        2·
        29 days ago

        Awesome thanks so much for the specs!