Nikon Announces Launch of Eco-friendly Clinical Microscopes

Nikon announced today a new range of upright microscopes for clinical use, designed to meet demands for ergonomic, eco-friendly and easy to use imaging systems. The versatile Eclipse Ci and Eclipse Ni-U offer world class optics, long-life LED illumination, motorisation and simple one-touch operation for microscope control and image capture.

The Eclipse Ci series comprises the top of the range motorised Ci-E model, perfect for all applications, the eco-friendly manual Ci-L with LED illumination and the basic halogen Ci-S model. The Ci series provides space saving design, a smooth finish with no sharp edges, superb ergonomics, control buttons on the side of microscope for ease and comfort, full image control via the new DS-L3 camera control unit and a small footprint. Enhanced features also include a built-in NCB11 daylight filter, nosepiece spacer to match personal posture, LED pointer for the teaching head, as well as wear and scratch resistant ceramic and dry-film surface stages.

Ideal for applications that require frequent magnification switching, the Ci-E is equipped with a six position motorised nosepiece with magnification switching of 0.5 sec between positions. A built-in nosepiece rotating switch can be set to select two favourite magnifications, useful when frequent changes are necessary, for example between 10x and 40x. In addition, by programming specific buttons on a separate remote control pad to correspond to specific objective lenses, magnification can be easily changed with a one-touch button. Automatic intensity adjustment enables the user-defined light intensity for each objective lens to be memorised and reproduced. A motorised swing-out and swing-in top lens element to the condenser is automatically switched according to the objective lens in use and also has a white tip which enables easier tissue location in pathology investigations.

The Ci-L features newly developed high-intensity and uniform evolved LED illumination. Bright enough for oil immersion phase contrast or simple polarising microscopy, its long lifecycle of 60,000 hours reduces running costs and lamp replacement. Combining collimator lens and fly-eye optics with LED provides a uniformly bright field of view, even at the periphery and high magnifications such as 100x.