Designation
Widefield microscope Leica
Model
Microscope Leica DMR
Objectives
10X dry, 40X dry, 63X oil, 100X oil (if you want to use an objective absent from this list, look at the complete list of objectives)
Detector
Very sensitive camera CCD Coolsnap HQ2 controled by Metamorph software
General informations
External motorized filter wheels Piezo for very fast and precise z-stack acquisitions
Acquisition modes
TransmissionFluorescence. Thanks to the 2 external filter wheels for excitation and emission, a wide range of fluorochromes can be observed (DAPI, wtGFP, CFP, YFP, FITC, Cy3, TRITC, Cy5, …)
Applications
Observation of fixed samples in transmission or in fluorescence until a thickness around 30µm