OLYMPUS TECHNOZONE Vol.62 2004-12
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Microscopes may come in different shapes
to provide eyes
for the pursuit of bioscience
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What do you expect manufacturers to do for researchers? For example, you
want them to listen more carefully to the views of researchers?
Occasionally at conferences we get the chance to play
with demo microscopes. For example, they have auto-focus microscopes,
which are of course handy, but someone experienced with microscopes
can do it faster by hand. In my case, because both hands are occupied
with manipulators, continually adjusting the focus, even for just
a second, can be a real waste of time. There are times when I think
it would be handy to be able to make minor adjustments using a foot
pedal or something similar, but even then you could probably do
a better job by hand.
Absolutely. Then you have the shape of microscopes:
as long as they have the same function, why not have different
formats?
Then you won't have to look down an eyepiece, for example."
Yes, after all, display monitors have progressed so much.
Light is refracted several times to enable us to look down a microscope.
A display monitor that is easy to see would be ideal. Get rid of
the eyepiece and position the monitor for maximum visibility, or
build something similar to a pair of goggles.
Using an eyepiece gives better resolution, I think. Ways of
observing objects through a microscope will probably change a lot
in the 21st century.
If you're going to put something on a monitor, you can
manipulate the images as well. In nucleus transplant, there are
times when a monitor provides a better view.
Let's take endoscopes as an example. Whereas previously people
looked down them, the development of CCD brought about videoscopes,
and since the picture quality improved, there has been a major shift
to videoscopes. The time has probably come for microscopes to change,
too.
Hearing that makes me want to take a look right now. You
can already see various types of information on a monitor; in short,
it now comes down to the question of how to position the monitor.
I'm sure there must be a microscope form best suited to the
kind of micromanipulation work you do. Please don't hesitate to
tell us. We need to move away from the previous concept of the microscope
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