Transmitted light (or biological) microscopes shine light up through slide-mounted, translucent specimens from below. When you want to see surface features or specimens that are not translucent (such as minerals, ceramics, needles, catheters, integrated circuits, etc.) at high magnifications, you’ll need an incident light (or metallurgical) compound microscope that shines light down through the objectives onto the surface of the specimen. Meiji Techno offers nine models of metallurgical microscopes for industrial and educational use based on an infinity optical system. The three lines of metallurgical microscopes with nine models including the MX7000, MX7500, MX8000, MX8500 and inverted metallograph IM7000. They all offer a combination of incident and transmitted illumination in either brightfield only or brightfield & darkfield.
Posted by mazurek on February 12th, 2008