Olympus IX71 Inverted Fluorescence Microscope with New Filter Sets and 8.3MP Camera

Olympus IX71 inverted fluorescence microscope configured for brightfield and fluorescence imaging of biological specimens, cell cultures, tissues, and research samples. This fully manual microscope includes a binocular viewing head, mechanical Z-axis, mechanical XY stage, fluorescence illumination, and digital image acquisition.

Standard configuration

• Olympus IX71 inverted microscope base with side camera port
• Mechanical Z-axis and mechanical XY stage
• Binocular head with two eyepieces
• Olympus fluorescence light path
• EXFO 120 metal halide fluorescence light source
• Light guide and collimating adapter
• Mechanical six-position fluorescence filter cube turret
• Three new fluorescence filter sets selected from:
• DAPI: excitation 365/28 nm, dichroic mirror 405 nm, emission 445/50 nm
• EGFP/FITC/Cy2: excitation 475/30 nm, dichroic mirror 500 nm, emission 530/40 nm
• TRITC/Cy3/DsRed: excitation 545/20 nm, dichroic mirror 562 nm, emission 605/60 nm
• Texas Red: excitation 560/20 nm, dichroic mirror 585 nm, emission 630/40 nm
• Cy5: excitation 630/50 nm, dichroic mirror 662 nm, emission 695/50 nm; may require an upgraded light source
• Illumination tower for brightfield microscopy
• Olympus 100-watt halogen light source and 100-watt halogen power supply
• Mechanical six-position objective turret
• Olympus UPlanFL 4x, 10x, 20x, and 40x objectives
• Mechanical condenser
• 1x C-mount camera adapter
• Bestscope 8.3MP color CMOS camera
• Dell laptop computer with Windows 10
• Micro-Manager with ImageJ analysis software and camera software
• Required power and communication cables

Imaging and applications

The Olympus IX71 supports fluorescence microscopy, transmitted brightfield imaging, live video, still-image capture, image annotation, calibration, measurement, processing, printing, and raster-image storage. The included software supports variable linear measurements, including line segments and radius values.

This inverted fluorescence microscope is suitable for cell biology, tissue imaging, pharmacological research, neuroscience, biotechnology, molecular biology, genetic engineering, and biomedical research. Its filter and camera configuration can support fluorescence-based cell analysis, molecular diagnostics development, gene editing research, synthetic biology workflows, and other life science imaging applications.

The microscope is supplied as a serviced pre-owned system. Final capabilities may vary if additional objectives, fluorescence light sources, filter cubes, phase-contrast components, DIC components, polarization components, advanced cameras, or a motorized XY stage are added.