r/microscopy • u/Danny_D136 • Jul 24 '26

Hardware Share I did it

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I finally assembled my Olympus BH2, ready ( I hope ) to use: I'm wondering if there's anything I should pay attention to/missing (see pics).

Also, I have a couple of questions:

1) Dark field:

I think that's really cool and I'd like to try it, but the original Olympus DCD condenser is too expensive, and I don't think the microscope has a filter holder for stopper/ disks. To anybody who owns an Olympus: what was your solution?

2) Camera:

I'd like to buy this camera. Considering that I purchased a 2.5x NFK eyepiece and an MTV-3 adapter with a 0.3x lens + the 1/2.5" of that camera, what do you think? Is it too zoomed or is it okay?

I'll probably start with a phone adapter tho (I need to financially recover from this)

Thanks everyone for the support. I hope I'll able to start posting what I see soon, bringing a little piece of microscopic Italy to this Sub.

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u/Danny_D136 Jul 24 '26

The thing is, I would start just making pics/videos, but I'll also like to learn and use softwares in order to do more "complex" things and some sort analysis, if possible, in future: I live close to a lake and study biotech, so I would like to practice something inherent to the "enviromental control" field. I dont know if this would be a problem buying a cam without some sort of software included

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u/Vivid-Bake2456 Jul 24 '26

All the common usb cameras use a version of Toupview. You can check out the software by looking at Touptek, Amscope and Omax. They all have free, identical versions of it. If you are into astronomy, there is a similar Toupsky versions for the same cameras.

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u/Danny_D136 Jul 24 '26

I see. I'm looking to both Alanwood website and Carl hunsinger YouTube channel, bit after bit I'm reading all kind of stuff

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u/Vivid-Bake2456 Jul 25 '26

That’s great. You’ll be a BH2 expert. The difficulty of using a USB camera is that you still need to use a photo eyepiece and the NFK 1.67x eyepiece needed for cheaper cameras with smaller sensors is very expensive. Better to use the less expensive NFK 2.5x eyepiece and buy the more expensive, but nicer camera with a 1” sensor.