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Zeiss Wide-Field

Zeiss Wide-Field

The Zeiss Wide-Field is an microscope suitable for both visible and fluorescence-stained samples. Equipped with a motorized stage and advanced tiling functions, it is the perfect platform to record transmission images with the high-resolution color camera, or fluorescence images with the high-speed Colibri light source and sensitive cmos camera. Note that, due to different pixel size and zoom factor, transmission and fluorescence images will not match.

Objectives: 2.5x/0.17 Plan NeoFluar, 5x/0.16 Plan Apochromat, 10x/0.3 Plan Neofluar, 20x/0.8 Plan Apochromat, 40x/0.75 Plan Neofluar, 63x/1.4 Plan Apochromat (o)

Light source: solid-state Colibri 7 (385, 430, 475, 555, 590, 630 and 735 nm).

Fluorescence channels: Blue, Green, Yellow, Red, m-cherry, Far-red and Cy7.

Phase contrast and DIC fully supported

Color camera: Zeiss axiocam 506, 2752x2208 pixels, 4.65 um pixel size

Fluorescence camera: Hamamatsu Orca Flash 4, 2048x2048 pixels, 6.5um pixel size

Zen Blue with background correction, advanced tiling functions and focus surface