Revision as of 13:58, 5 July 2008

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
- Different leads from microscope.fr website
- 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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 * [http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artdec07/dw-motictip.html Adaptor for standard cameras]
 * [http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmar05/dwmoticam.html Moticam review and some tips]
+* [http://search.ebay.fr/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&dfsp=32&catref=C6&from=R40&satitle=microscope+adaptateur&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D3&sadis=200&fpos=Code+postal&sabfmts=1&saobfmts=insif&ga10244=10425&saslt=2&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=32&fsoo=2 ebay search for adaptators]