Axio Imager 2
FIRST-TIME SET-UP
ZEISS
Inserting the eyepieces and auxiliary microscope
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3.5.1
Inserting the eyepiece reticles
Eyepiece reticles (Fig. 13/
3
) may be inserted into focusable / adjustable eyepieces marked with a red dot.
The slight image shift caused by the additional glass path is taken into account on the diopter scale by
the fact that the zero point position is indicated not by the white dot, but the red dot.
Make sure the reticles figure always faces the field stop.
Eyepiece reticles may only be installed by Zeiss service technicians working in a dust-free
environment.
3.5.2
Compensation of ametropia when eyepiece reticles are used
Correct use of eyepiece reticles requires two focusing eyepieces, e.g. PL 10x/23 Br. foc, to enable users to
compensate for ametropia differences of their eyes.
•
Use the focusing lens of the adjustable eyepiece to focus on the line figure of the eyepiece reticles.
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Viewing through the eyepiece, use the focusing drive to focus the microscope image of a specimen
placed on the stage.
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As soon as the microscope image and the eyepiece reticles are focused in the eyepiece, turn the
focusing eye lens of the second eyepiece to focus the microscope image for the second eye.
Both microscopic images and that of the eyepiece reticles should then be clearly focused.
You should subsequently focus only using the focusing drive.
3.5.3
Inserting the fold-over eyecups
The eyepieces have a rubber spectacle protection
ring to prevent scratching. The protection rings can
be replaced with fold-over eyecups when required.
•
Remove the spectacle protection rings
(Fig. 13/
2
) from the eyepieces and attach the
eyecups (Fig. 13/
1
).
•
Sometimes the spectacle protection rings are
seated very tightly in the eyepiece groove,
occasionally requiring the use of a blunt object
(wooden stick) to remove them.
Fig. 13
Inserting the fold-over eyecups
