Olympus BX40 Microscope

Instrument

Teaching Labs has one Olympus BX40 Microscope fitted with a Brunel SPCMOS Camera and polariser.

Photo Showing a Olympus BX40 Microscope fitted with a Brunel SPCMOS Camera and polariser.

Microscope Specification

Model

Olympus BX40

Illumination

30 W Halogen lamp

Magnification 

4, 10, 40 

Camera Specification

Model

Brunel Digital Eyecam

Resolution

1600 × 1200 

Image format

PNG

Video format

wmv, h264, avi

Polariser Specification

Model

Olympus U-POT

Instructions  

Students

Microscope Instructions (PDF) ↓

Accessing data

Images from the microscope are automatically made available at ftp://chemtl.york.ac.uk/Microscope/. The images are sorted in the format yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss.