List Price: $950.00
Sale Price: $269.50
Today's Bonus: 72% Off
Polarizing microscopes (indispensable to examine rock thin sections) are very expensive products (usually $3,000 and up). Amscope offers this one at less than $300. Of course, at this price, it's not a true polarizing microscope, only a brightfield microscope with a polarizing kit, i.e. a supplemental round stage with a polarizing lens that is set on the original stage and a removable analyzing lens which adapts on the top of the binocular. In a true "pol", the polarizer is under the stage and the analyzer inside the head. The biggest drawback of the polarizing kit is the impossibility to adapt a camera over the analyzer. Another drawback comes from the reduced space between the extra stage and the nosepiece. And, of course there's no Bertrand lens, Koehler illumination etc that characterize full-features pols. But other sellers of brightfields with polarizing kits ask for $700 or more, so Amscope's product is really cheap. Its quality isn't cheap: sturdy construction, good optics (up to x1000 with oil, but x400 is enough for rock thin sections). The documentation is scarce, written in bad English. The packaging is very good and everything arrived in perfect condition. Because of its limitations, this product would deserve only 2 or 3 stars. But there's no free lunch, and for somebody with a limited budget, it offers an excellent way to look at thin sections, hence the 4 stars I give it.
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