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Microscope

These are the features we're looking for:

500x magnification
2 MP to 8 MP camera
Objective table to move the chip slowly (i.e. not by hand, too much shaking and imprecision)

Feature we DON'T NEED:

Confocal microscope (it seems, because we'll abrase/grind away the upper layers anyway and the bottom layers are opaque anyway too)

Friend of Phil will lend a microscope with camera
- not perfect but should enable us to do the first etching/abrasive steps
Ebay? No perfect match yet.
Microscope.fr solution
- Euromex
  - Euromex XE.5627 Discussion Microscope (299 EUR)
  - Euromex AE.5175 Ball-beared mechanical stage (169 EUR)
  - either Euromex DC.3200 CMEX-3 DIGI CMOS Microscope camera (3 MP) (989 EUR) or Euromex DC.1300 CMEX-1 DIGI CMOS Microscope camera (1.3 MP) (469 EUR)
  - Total: from 937 EUR to 1457 EUR
- Bresser
  - Bresser Trino Researcher II 40-1000x Microscope (349 EUR)
  - Included mechanical stage
  - Bresser PC MicrOcular 3 MP (289 EUR)
  - Total: 638 EUR

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 *** either [http://www.optical-systems.com/euromex-dc3200-cmex3-digi-cmos-microscope-camera-p-3941.html Euromex DC.3200 CMEX-3 DIGI CMOS Microscope camera (3 MP)] (989 EUR) or [http://www.optical-systems.com/euromex-dc1300-cmex1-digi-cmos-microscope-camera-p-3942.html Euromex DC.1300 CMEX-1 DIGI CMOS Microscope camera (1.3 MP)] (469 EUR)
 *** Total: from 937 EUR to 1457 EUR
+** Bresser
+*** [http://www.optical-systems.com/bresser-trino-researcher-401000x-microscope-p-5231.html Bresser Trino Researcher II 40-1000x Microscope] (349 EUR)
+*** Included mechanical stage
+*** [http://www.optical-systems.com/bresser-pc-microcular-3-mp-p-2129.html Bresser PC MicrOcular 3 MP] (289 EUR)
+*** Total: 638 EUR
 == Links ==
 * http://www.microscopesinfo.com/olympusmicroscope/
 * http://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.techniques.microscopy/2005-10/msg00004.html