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I already owned an Amscope brightfield microscope with a polarizing kit. It is a good product for the price (under $300), but has the limitations common to all polarizing kits (model M500-PZ; see my review). This one (model PZ300T-5M) is a real pol for a very good price (alas, $ 3,400 is not so much for that kind of microscope). It magnifies up to x600 (with strain-free objectives), which is more than needed in most cases and is complete: swing in/out condenser, analyzer and bertrand lens, compensator plates, rotating plate with vernier scale, and all kinds of adjustments. It's a trinocular, the third eyepiece being designed to support a digital 5MB camera. Building is very sturdy and it weighs 28 lbs. So far I've been unable to get a really good image (the optional camera adds $ 400 to the camera-less PZ300T model). All pieces were well packaged and arrived in perfect condition, except the manual (creased -and written in broken English as usual-) and the software CD, broken in several pieces by the weight on one of the scope parts. I suppose Amscope would have replaced the CD, but the software is the same as the one with the 1.2MB camera I already had. It can be also downloaded from Touptek.com, the software author. In conclusion, it's a perfect microscope to study rock thin sections at an unbeatable price, but I still have to find a way to get good photos with the camera.
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