Celestron Labs CB2000C Compound Binocular Microscope - 4 Achromatic Objectives with 40x-2000x Power - Mechanical Stage, Abbe Condenser - 2 Eyepieces - Bonus Prepared Slides, Filters, Emersion Oil

Description

The Celestron Labs CB2000C Binocular Compound Microscope offers all the advanced features you’re looking for. With 10x and 20x eyepieces and 4 included objective lenses (4x, 10x, 40x and 100x), you’ll achieve magnification ranging from 40x to 2000x. Improve the quality of your magnified images with the included 3 colored filters. A trinocular eyepiece tube is included, allowing for a camera to be adapted or for secondary eyepiece viewing. The 10 included prepared slides guarantee exciting discoveries right out of the box. This microscope provides perfect illumination thanks its NA 1.25 Abbe condenser and iris diaphragm, which allow to you to control and concentrate light on your specimens. You can easily control brightness, contrast, depth of field, and evenness of illumination by adjusting the distance between the Abbe condenser and objective or by adjusting the condenser’s iris diaphragm, which controls the diameter of the light beam. The fully mechanical stage has knobs to control both axes for easy centering of your slides. An all-metal construction means you can rely on the CB2000C for years to come. The Trinocular adapter allows for the attachment of a camera for taking images of your specimens. Review: This is a nicely designed microscope. For someone interested in Microscope, I think it would be quite adequate. However..........my microscope was somewhat shabby in it's assembly. The optics were a bit off out of the box and this can be a huge headache to align. As you can see from the photo (cover off), the prism is so misaligned, they couldn't/didn't put the 3rd screw in. This is more of a Quality Control thing at the factory and chances are yours will most likely be OK. I suppose I could have tried to go the route of returning it, but this in itself would of being a large hassle. So since I'm still trying to align things (and yes probably not covered by warranty because of that), I can only give it a max of 2 stars. Review: The Celestron CB2000CF Lab Series microscope, is a great microscope for the money, it is well made and has all the features one could want. Features include: magnification from 40X to 2000X with 4 objective lens the highest is 100X which is also oil rated for using immersion oil at 1000X and 2000X. It uses built in LED illumination with an Abbe condenser and iris all of which, are adjustable. The stage has a spring loaded slide holder and is fully position adjustable using a single control shaft. The stage is elevated or lowered to focus using both coarse and fine focus knobs. The microscope comes with 2 sets (dual eyepiece) of eyepieces 10X with pointer and 20X. The eyepiece holder is adjustable for interpupillary distance as well diopter adjustments for each eyepiece. It also comes with immersion oil, 3 color lens for the iris, and a set of 10 prepared sample slides to view. I have not used it extensively but I have viewed several of the prepared slides using all the magnification settings, adjusted the illumination levels and condenser and iris and they all work well delivering crisp clear images. I actually had a decently clear image at 2000X but it would improve much using immersion oil. For the amount of money spent this is an excellent microscope.