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hi................

a friend got these when Hoover factory closed in Cambuslang south of Glasgow
he thinks they are " a microscope camera"
beautiful lined case with camera body, all sorts of lens and filters
all in mint condition
no "adapter" to fit the lens so I think maybe the body attached to a microscope and the lens fitted the microscope turrets - just a guess !

anyone seen anything like it ?...............:thinking:

I realize we cannot discuss "whats this worth" but can anyone point me to a suitable dealer who may be able to give an evaluation
no sense it looking on eBay as I feel this is unique

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thanks for any help in this...:)
 
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:shrug:

nice looking camera though, I like minimalist....:)
 
I THINK, :rules: the Mods allow you to ask about items that are as rare as this. If not, I apologise profusely and stand to be corrected!! :notworthy:
 
Hats off to you Joxby!

I'm probably uniquely qualified to answer this one having worked at Hoover in Cambuslang during my summer break from college and also writing Olympus first course on digital photomicrography :)

What you have there is a setup for materials examination as part of a QC/development program. The camera attaches as Joxby has ably demonstrated and can fit onto stereo microscopes as well as traditional compound microscopes.

The objective you picture in no5 is an objective from such a compound microscope. It's a 100x objective that would fit on a rotating turret. The modern equivalent being this http://www.olympus.co.uk/microscopy/26_BXFM.htm

No 7 the piece on the right is an eyepiece that fits in the top of the microscope and they come in varying magnifications usually 5X or 10X

The other piece in No 7 I'm not so sure of (before my time really cough!) but it could be a polariser which are frequently used in materials microscopy.

In terms of value, sorry to say but it's not going to be huge, You have some microscope components there and one camera with no lens so you can't really use either without the microscope body or the gubbins in terms of mounting the camera.

Hope that helps :)
 
Good God!! TP triumphs again and comes up with the goods!
Top man AliB! AND joxby, brilliant!
 
I do a lot of lurking and don't pass comments, but I just have to say that sometimes the knowledge that comes from this forum is amazing.
 
I'm just very, very .............old! :)

Ps I'm a geeky girlie :)
 
There's been lots of olympus stuff like this on ebay in the past, if you want to sell it there's a lot of microscope collectors etc usually lurking on there and you generally get a good price, olympus make some great microscope stuff and it always sells well

I own a fair few microsocopes and I used to trade in them quite a lot, I have multiple olympus scopes and I've bought and sold a lot of the items in your box in the past
 
absolutely unbelievable.............:thumbs:

i thought i would get NO replies or only a "its too old" --- so thank you..:D

even if he cannot sell this - i know he will be awestruck by what it does

thanks !!
 
AliB said:
I'm probably uniquely qualified to answer this one having worked at Hoover in Cambuslang during my summer break from college and also writing Olympus first course on digital photomicrography :)

What you have there is a setup for materials examination as part of a QC/development program. The camera attaches as Joxby has ably demonstrated and can fit onto stereo microscopes as well as traditional compound microscopes....
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brilliant !!

any idea what was in the slots on the left ??

thanks
 
slots on the left are probably for filter sliders for reflected light, olympus made a number of cases like this whereby they would fit multiple purposes so it is common to see empty slots in complete kits
 
That one does puzzle me a little but looking at the rest of the kit and how it is assembled I would have to guess that it might have been some sort of holders for the samples they wanted to look at.

More than willing to listen to anyone elses guess on that one! :)

Amd Hairyducks guess is as good as mine! :)
 
AliB said:
I'm just very, very .............old! :)

Ps I'm a geeky girlie :)
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You can STILL be a top man!!
(But thats why I said it seperately)(because your a girl) Oh eck!!:help:
 
Superb Hairyduck! :)

That takes me back, believe it or not we were still replacing the BH2's in hospitals and that was over 10 years ago :)
 
I own 2 BH2's they're fantastic for photography, I can't afford to replace the plan apos on them with their infinite equivalents else I'd use one of my newer olympuses or my mammoth research leica scope.

If anyone thinks lenses and accessories for cameras are expensive you should see microscopes!
 
I think the most expensive ones I ever sold were £60K for a confocal (they bought three!) and one we custom built that did remote cell tracking in four dimensions in a CO2 controlled chamber in a basement several miles away. That was mammoth! lol

Some of the big inverted ones for cell biology were amazing.

One of the most interesting I built was for a big petrochemical company who wanted to investigate the freezing point of diesel. So we made them a temperature controlled microscope and put a video unit on it so they could record time vs temp and the software recorded both simultaneously. They liked that :)
 
There certainly is some very clever technology out there for microscrope, the resolving power of the newer lenses is amazing, and that linked in with electriccery bits like raman and confocal scanners is unreal
 
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