LAT Brings Tabletop Microscope To Microscience

Lambda Advanced Technology (LAT) will be showing the recently announced Hitachi TM-1000 Tabletop Microscope at Microscience. This follows the company’s recent appointment as UK distributor for this novel product.

LAT Sales Director, Vince Phelan, said: "We are extremely excited by this new instrument. It provides imaging capabilities far in excess of optical microscopes in terms of resolution, depth of field and magnification. The Microscience exhibition provides a perfect opportunity for large numbers of people to see for themselves just how easy it really is to produce high quality digital images."

"In addition, there is no specimen preparation required. Even oily, hydrated or non-conducting samples can be viewed using the ‘charge-up reduction’ mode," he continued. "As the TM-1000 can accommodate samples up to 70 mm in diameter and 20 mm thickness, we’re actively encouraging visitors to bring something along that they’d like to image in the microscope!"

The TM-1000 is linked to a laptop computer and features an extremely simple user interface, which lets users select focus, magnification, brightness and contrast. Start-up and specimen exchange routines are fully automatic at the touch of a single button, and autofocus, auto-brightness and auto-contrast functions are also provided. High quality images can be produced over a magnification range of 20–10,000x using standard imaging and up to 40,000x using digital zoom and can be saved directly to disk.