Upright Microscopes

• Ready-to-use package – simply plug in and start working
• Have full control: blue light intensity display on both sides of the stand act as important control function over all microscopes in the course room: for control by the educator and quick control of the light intensity by the users 
• For right-hand practice: Operate the stage drive with the right hand and use the focus drive with your left hand
• Rackless stage and stage cover for your safety and comfort
• For longevity: robust and short stage drive with easy-toread scales 
• A must-have: high standards in material selection: the microscopes consist mainly out of metal
• Form follows function: the design combines aesthetics with maximum functionality
• Height adjustable Siedentopf tube with 30° and Field of View 20 mm 
• Siedentopf tube: adjustment of the individual eye relief in a wide range from 48 mm to 75 mm
• Objectives and eyepieces are theft-protected • Pre-installed objectives are: Plan-Achromat 4× / 0.10, 10× / 0.25, 40× / 0.65
• Antifungus treatment of objectives • Accessory: Plan-Achromat 100× / 1.25 Oil
• LED lifetime: 25,000 hrs

In the classroom or in the routine lab, you need reliable microscopes that can take a lot of wear and tear. After all, you and your colleagues or students will be working long hours, often in cramped spaces. You need microscopes that will pay back your investment with smooth operation – day-to-day and year in, year out. Primostar 3 packs all of that into its sturdy metal frame. Yet this robust light microscope is also designed for maximum ease of use. For productive learning and efficient lab work, students and staff alike will be free from the very beginning to focus on the essentials.

Choose from pre-defined packages for teaching or routine lab work and get the precise microscope configuration you need for the tasks at hand. Each microscope comes pre-installed so it's ready to work right out of the box – that's genuine plug in and play performance. And when you want to take your Teaching online or connect your labs on a network, it's easier than ever before with Lab scope, the free imaging app from ZEISS.

Microscopes 

Primo Star iLED (fixed Köhler) with reflected fluorescent illumination

Objectives

Plan-ACHROMAT with magnifications of 10×, 20×, 40× and 100× optimized for specimens without cover slip (D = 0)

Illumination

Transmitted light

• LED Reflected light

• Fluorescence module with 455 nm LED

Accessories

• Transport case

• Rechargeable battery pack

• Illuminating mirror

Increase Efficiency in Your Routine Lab

• Once you find a region of interest, simply press the snap button right on the stand to acquire the image. It's as easy as that. Axiolab 5 offers you an easy handling, ergonomic user concept that's adapted to your lab routine.
• Control the microscope and its attached camera without even changing your grip. Your smart microscope system then automatically adjusts the parameters for you and documents your sample precisely as you see it through the eyepieces – detail-rich and in true color.
• The correct scaling is always included automatically. You don't need to invest in another computer or software either. With smart microscopy you will work more efficiently and always stay focused on your sample.

More Efficient All Round

• Axiolab 5 is on your side when it comes to cost and energy-saving. Activate Eco-mode, for instance, and Axiolab 5 automatically goes to standby after being idle for 15 minutes. Its clever illumination concept also supports your quest for greater efficiency in the lab. The Light Manager provides uniform brightness at all magnifications, and can even be set for different contrasts.
• The new powerful white LED illumination with very high color rendering index allows you to visualize your sample in true color. The constant color temperature of the LED facilitates system operation and digital documentation. For fluorescence, the powerful LEDs in various wavelengths are both energy efficient and easier to handle than conventional HBO illumination.
• With LEDs, you will also avoid warm-up and cool-down times, lamp replacement and lamp adjustment.

Clever Ergonomics for Relaxed Lab Work

• Axiolab 5 is strong on ergonomy and efficiency. You access all the main controls with just one hand, including the Snap button, stage drive, focus adjustment, and brightness control.
• Ergotubes and the height and torque adaptable rackless stage allow you to work in a comfortable position, even during extended use.
• Simply adjust the viewing height to find the most comfortable position. The dual specimen holder means fewer slide changes – for example, when you're examining IHC slides – so fatigue is reduced.
• Overall, Axiolab 5 minimizes and eases out the manual steps, allowing you to work more efficiently and in greater comfort.

Boost Your Efficiency with Smart Microscopy

• It can take a lot of time to acquire detail-rich, true-color images. You know the drill: place the sample, focus your region of interest, switch to the computer, adjust settings such as white balance, exposure time and gain, then acquire an image, insert a scale bar, switch back to the microscope … and so on.
• That's what a typical documentation workflow looks like. Now, with the Axiolab 5 system, you can stay focused on your sample at all times, thanks to smart microscopy. Digital documentation is inherent in the system design. Just press the ergonomic Snap button on the microscope and you're done. The procedure integrates perfectly with your established microscopy workflow and boosts your efficiency tremendously.

Digital Documentation Made Easy

Once you find a region of interest, simply press the Snap button right on the stand to acquire the image. It‘s as easy as that. You can control the microscope and its attached camera without even changing your grip while always focusing on your sample.

Clever Ergonomics for Relaxed Lab Work

Axiolab 5 offers you an easy handling, ergonomic user concept that‘s adapted to your lab routine. You can access all the main controls with just one hand, including the Snap button, stage drive, focus adjustment, and brightness control.

More Economic and Reliable

Save lab space and costs as Axiolab 5 does not require an additional computer and software. The Smart Microscopy concept also enables Axiolab 5 to be operated by both expert and non-expert users, always assuring short time to reliable data.

The Smart Microscopy Concept

A Workflow that will Boost Your Productivity

Used in combination with the microscope camera ZEISS Axiocam 208 color, you have the full advantage of a smart stand-alone microscope solution. Digital documentation is part of the system design: Just press the ergonomic Snap button and you‘re done. Camera settings such as white balance, exposure time, and image enhancement functions are done automatically. Without needing additional imaging software or even a computer, you can:

• Snap images and record videos directly
• Use your mouse (and optionally, a keyboard) to control your camera via on-screen display 
• Save settings
• Store images with all microscope and camera metadata as well as scaling information
• Predefine the name or rename your image

Metallography

Typical tasks and applications

• Determine grain sizes, structure, distribution and phases.
• Quickly carry out on-site analysis.
• Study mode(s) of material failure: fatigue, corrosion, creep deformation, stress cracks or fractures.

Microscopy Solutions for Industry

Typical tasks and applications

• High-throughput material inspection and documentation
• Incoming goods inspection
• High-quality imaging for publications
• Failure analysis
• Process quality monitoring

Mineralogy

Typical tasks and applications

• Examine thin sections of rock and minerals to determine their composition.
• Classify anisotropic materials like calcite, olivine, titanite, or zircon.
• Get answers to questions relating to refractive indices, cleavages, double refraction, extinction angles, optical path differences, and the number and angle of optical axes.

Smart Microscopy Makes Digital Documentation Faster

Axioscope 5 makes documenting your specimens very efficient. The color impression shows up in the camera image exactly the same as it appears through the eyepieces. This smart microscope makes automatic adjustments for brightness and white balance to keep digital documentation easy. All you have to do is focus on your sample, press the ergonomic Snap button on the microscope, and that's it.

Benefit from Homogenous Illumination

Axioscope 5 uses its LED to provide powerful illumination with high color fidelity. You will clearly see the subtle differences in your sample. And experience all the advantages of LED illumination such as

• stable color temperature,
• low energy consumption
• long lifetime

Axioscope 5 comes with a light intensity manager that produces uniform brightness at all magnifications. Adjusting lamp brightness when you change magnification is a thing of the past. That saves you time and reduces eye fatigue, too.

This is Smart Microscopy

Digital Documentation Made Easy

Used in combination with Axiocam 202 mono or Axiocam 208 color, you have the full advantage of a smart standalone microscope system. Camera settings such as white balance, contrast and exposure time are done automatically. Without needing additional imaging software or even a computer, you can:

• Snap images and record videos directly from your stand
• Use the mouse to control your camera via on-screen display (OSD)
• Save settings
• Store images with all metadata of the microscope and camera as well as scaling information
• Predefine the name or rename your image

Affordable High Performance

Axioscope – with its outstanding usability and advanced automation features – is ideal for demanding routine tasks. And, even at its attractive price, it also offers powerful capabilities commonly associated with more advanced research light microscopes.

Reliable Results

With coded components and advanced light management, Axioscope delivers trustworthy, reproducible results. Moreover, the motorized Axioscope 7 gives you the ability to fully automate investigative workflows – so it is quick to become the lab favorite.

Digital Integration

With the Axiocam camera portfolio and ZEN core imaging software, Axioscope becomes a powerful digital documentation system. From device control – to image capture, analysis and documentation – to archiving your analytics, Axioscope delivers a fully digitized workflow.

A Turnkey Metallography Solution

Axioscope is performance-ready, with all features working in concert to deliver a complete metallography solution for the materials laboratory: cameras as the most important interface for digitizing your sample data, lenses with application-specific properties, and an imaging software specially developed for materials research and metallography.

Imaging Software with Integrated Materials Modules

ZEN core is your command center for automated imaging and analysis functions. Modules for the determination of grain sizes, phases and layer thicknesses, as well as for the classification of graphite particles, enable Axioscope to provide all meaningful metallographic applications under a uniform user interface.
 

Reproducible Results​

Enjoy Vibration-Free Working Conditions​

Stability is essential if you want to obtain good results. Appreciate the stable imaging conditions of Axio Imager 2, especially when working with high magnifications or performing time dependent studies. Due to the motorization of Axio Imager 2 achieve quick and reproducible results while always working under constant conditions.

Modular Design​

Gain Enhanced Flexibility​

Whether in academic or industrial research, materials microscopy faces various challenges. With Axio Imager 2 you will be able to meet and win these challenges. Attach application-specific components and perform e.g. particle analysis. Investigate non-metallic inclusions (NMI), liquid crystals, or semiconductor-based MEMs. Expand your instrument with dedicated solutions for confocal or correlative microscopy.

High Optical Performance

Achieve Superb Contrast and Resolution

• Examine a range of materials e.g., metals, composites, or liquid crystals with different contrasting techniques. ​
• Use reflected light and observe your samples in brightfield, darkfield, differential interference contrast (DIC), circular differential interference contrast (C-DIC), polarization or fluorescence. ​
• Use transmitted light and examine your samples in brightfield, darkfield, differential interference contrast (DIC), polarization or circular polarization. The contrast manager ensures reproducible illumination settings.

A Choice of Contrasting Techniques​

Cast iron with spherulitic graphite, polished sample, identical same site imaged with different contrasting techniques (field of view 265 µm). Images: courtesy of Dr. H.-L. Steyer, Kesselsdorf, Germany.​

Ergonomics

As Multifaceted as Your Surfaces​

Axio Imager.Z2m or Axio Imager.M2m display key operating functions on a touch screen, giving you fingertip control of all motorized components. Additional control buttons are positioned ergonomically around the focus drive, with tactile surfaces that make them easy to distinguish. Axio Imager.D2m has five pre-programmed buttons while Axio Imager.Z2m has ten user-definable buttons. Axio Imager.A2m is encoded.

Thermomicroscopy

Flexible Documentation of Temperature Changes

Do you want to examine how temperature influences the behavior of metals, crystals, ceramics or plastics?​

With ZEN core and Linkam heating stages you define heating or cooling experiments. Document the temperature pattern in a time lapse series. The result you obtain is a log of the temperature and vacuum data in each time lapse image. Observe sample changes during the heating or cooling process for example in the field of quality control.

Large Fixed Stage

Full Sample Access Even for Complex Setups

Experimental workstations for upright electrophysiology typically involve complex setups for demanding micromanipulation.

Access to the specimen space is one of the most important requirements.

Large fixed stages offer the possibility of adjusting the microscope appropriately during an ongoing experiment – without disturbing the sensitive experimental setup.

Dedicated Optics Concept

Experimental Flexibility and Contrasting Options

Experiments involving manipulation of the specimen being observed place extreme demands on the objective geometry.

Even for a high numerical aperture, a long working distance is required in order to be able to manipulate capillary pipettes.

Also, a wide spectrum of contrasting options is required. Optimally integrated and selectively applicable, a perfect adaption of the contrast to the respective specimen can be ensured.​

Modular Design

Tailor the Microscope According to Your Needs

Axio Examiner offers exceptional flexibility in configuring your microscope from four upper bodies, two lower bodies and a large number of different components and motorization options to ideally meet your individual requirements.