Microscope camera question

[Travis_UT]

What microscopes have the ability to have a video camera and you can use both eye pieces while using the camera? I have seen one Amscope, not sure what model but when you want to use video camera you can only see thru one eye piece.

 

[rweigel]

Look for the word “trinokular” in the scope’s description… They usually combine light from both objective paths for the third, straight port, where the video camera sits.

Cheers

Ralf

 

[EngraverHand]

Both cheaper models from Eakins and Amscope has it plus more expensive models from Zeiss, Leica, Meiji and others. It is of course a budget question, but if you can, try to avoid Eakins, Amscope and other cheaper models.. The ones I have tried have been absolutely horrible.. bad depth, light, lenses and build quality, but the worst, I got a huge headache after a couple of hours of engraving.. to me useless.

My daily microscope is a Meiji EMZ-5 and I never have any headache issues.. soon I´ll upgrade to a Zeiss Stemi 508 Trinocular. Good luck!

 

[Mike576]

I would second to stay away from amscope. While i had it the scope worked and seemed nice but i would get headaches not knowing why. After upgrading to a zeiss opmi 1 i knew why! the low quality optics were the reason on the amscope. I recently just got a leica a60 and while it is very nice, the Zeiss was better in my opinion. Just my 2 thoughts! Good luck in the search.

 

[monk]

trinoc for sure. i had an amscope bino for some time. it was reasonably good. never a headache with it. i did switch to a leica bino. the leica optics were somewhat better. jmho

 

[mitch]

If I’m not mistaken, the Leica A60, the one with the fabulous depth of focus, cannot be used with a camera. Something about the asymmetrical lens system…

 

[pblack]

Leica's S9D is trinocular. Tira Mitchell sells it (https://www.engraver.com/leica-s9d-trinocular-microscope/) and she could probably answer any questions that you have.