We can run our courses on your site using your microscopes, augmented with ours if necessary.

We think it is important to have plenty of tutor guided hands-on sessions. These will be backed up with presentations to explain principles and theory as required.

We will also provide a short 'Audit' of your equipment to ensure we know what you have and what its capable of - you would be surprised what we find sometimes.

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A typical one day course contains.

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Typical Agenda

 

• Define your goals for the course and existing microscope audit.

• Microscope basic orientation, what does a microscope do, principles and function.

• Details of all the components

• Basic principles and function

• Resolution and magnification

• Learn how to set Köhler illumination for optimum resolution.

• Objective selection, we will discuss the various types of objective lenses. Learn how to interpret the information inscribed on them and how to choose the optimum lens for your application. 

• Types of microscope, upright, inverted, stereo etc

• Brightfield, Darkfield, Phase Contrast techniques, Polarised light, Florescence, Differential Interference Contrast (DIC)

• Cameras and image capture, Learn how to attach a digital camera to the microscope use it to acquire an image and explain how to optimise its parameters.

• Applications discussion and suggested improvements to methods

• How to clean and take care of your microscope.

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Two trainers for one day for up to 6 people

 

 

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