ZEISS Axio Zoom.V16 - Stereo Zoom Microscope for Large Fields

Carl Zeiss Microscopy has come up with the on-axis zoom microscope Axio Zoom.V16 provides both high resolution and a zoom range measuring up to 16x. Zoom smoothly from an overview downto the minutest of details, with the help of a single objective and a wide free working distance.

Users can easily and rapidly stitch huge tile-images at low-to-medium magnification along with splendid double resolution.

Highlights

Zoom Between Large Object Fields in Minute Detail

Image Credit: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH

The Axio Zoom.V16 is designed to integrate its 16x zoom with a large working distance and a high numerical aperture: even at low and medium magnifications users realize resolutions up to twice as high.

The Axio Zoom. V16 helps users save timeas they do not need to stitch tile-images. Instead,users can image full components with only a few shots.

Optimized Zoom for Users’ Applications

Image Credit: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH

The eZoom of the Axio Zoom.V16 functions with a motorized iris diaphragm linked to the zoom. Users can simply choose the best mode for their purpose:

Eyepiece mode: This is perfect if users work primarily with ocular observation with the help of traditional illumination. Users zoom from huge object fields with an optimum depth of field to high magnifications with the highest resolution.

Brightness mode: Users can note fluorescence images over the entire zoom range with the greatest possible brightness.

Camera mode: Axio Zoom.V16 adjusts to the performance of the user’s camera. Users get an ideal relation between resolution and depth of field throughout the entire zoom range.

EpiRel Produces a Relief-like Image Contrast

Users can slightly incline the illumination with the help of the EpiRel slider in the Epi-Illuminator Z of users’ Axio Zoom.V16:

Find textures and small ridges, especially at high magnification. Objects will take on more contours compared to traditional brightfield.

Precision: eZoom Images – Twice as Sharp

The zoom body is considered the core of stereo and zoom microscopes. While zooming, the position of the lenses has to be accurate. Up until now, a metal component milled with extreme caution would identify the precision of this movement, and with it the optical quality of users’ microscope.

eZoom substitutes the mechanical curve with an electronic curve. Stepping motors position the movable lenses accurately, taking into consideration the tolerances of the individual lenses.

Every zoom body explains its zoom curve and visibly captures additional detail. eZoom tracks the base line for image sharpness beyond the magnification range with a doubled accuracy, in comparison to a mechanical zoom body. Zoom curves can be programmed individually.

When the micro clapper of the computer-controlled glue leveling machine brings eZoom’s lens in the zoom body into position, it is glued and cured with UV light. Image Credit: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH