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Axio Scope - More Functional. More Economical

The adaptable all-round stand for your routine and research applications

ISCP – the Infinity Space Camera Port – simply insert it at the interface in the infinity space. A camera port for transmitted light, independent of the tube, and retrofittable any time later.

Stand Versions

Combination Options - Flexible and Affordable
Twenty-three Stand Versions. Innumerable Interfaces. An Outstanding Solution for Your Applications and Budget. The optimum solution for your application and your budget. Axio Scope is as individual as the applications you use it for.

Transmitted-Light Methods

LED or halogen. Phase contrast or DIC. Never before did a microscope of this class offer as many capabilities.
Whether unstained cells, stained histology sections or ground bone sections: now as before, transmitted-light methods are mainstream for many clinical examinations. The interfaces newly designed for Axio Scope are unique. They add unprecedented flexibility to routine microscopy.

All contrast methods
The great diversity of contrast methods Axio Scope makes available for your applications is surprising for this microscope class: the classical methods of brightfield, darkfield and phase contrast as well as differential interference contrast (DIC) and – for the first time in any upright microscope – PlasDIC, the low-priced interference contrast alternative from Carl Zeiss.

Fluorescence: Configure Today. Adapt Tomorrow

The new fluorescence grows with your demands.
FluoresScience is the name of the new Carl Zeiss initiative focused on the development of excellent fluorescence techniques.

Retrofittable to meet your needs: the reflected-light beam path
Axio Scope is exquisitely equipped for fluorescence:
• The completely redesigned reflected-light beam path convinces by outstanding contrast and excellent suppression of stray light..

• Here again you profit from the flexibility of the modular system.

• The adjustment tool for setting the HBO lamp can be obtained later and retrofitted by yourself.

• The same applies to the achromatic system, which ensures even better results in multichannel fluorescence applications.

Inserting the reflector slider, reflector turret or ISCP into the infinity space

LED Fluorescence: All New. All Integrated

Merits of LED illumination
Extremely durable, cost-effective, convenient to handle and requiring no adjustment whatsoever. The LEDs will save you laborious lamp changes for a very long time, since they are on only when they are actually used in the beam path.

All new. All integrated. With this innovative light source,

Objectives – Tried and Approved for the Most Exacting Demands.

For more than 150 years, Carl Zeiss has been known for microscope optics that can hardly be surpassed. And this is true for all performance classes. It goes without saying that the optical performance of Axio Scope satisfies the highest standards.

The new, inexpensive all-round talents: The series of N-ACHROPLAN objectives has been specially developed for diverse routine applications.

Imaging - Open for the Leading Software

Your Axio Scope Imaging System is more than a sum of microscope, software and camera – it’s a complete solution from a single source. Fully integrated into the Carl Zeiss system approach. With the certainty of 100% compatibility – also with future developments.

he free-of-charge AxioVision LE software version offers a wide variety of valuable functions for the acquisition, processing and analysis of images.

Specimen Space - Space for Any Specimen

The specimen space of Axio Scope can be expanded practically as much as you want.
The enormous scaleability of the specimen space is an important factor in the wide range of Axio Scope uses. In addition to the range of Z travel, the specimen space can be influenced in several places. Depending on the configuration, it can be varied continuously up to 110 mm.
1. You can simply lower the stage carrier at the dovetail slideway..

2. You can easily remove the condenser carrier, which is practical if you want to lower the stage to beyond the travel range.

3. You can gain space at the interface between the upper and lower stand parts by interposing a spacer. This comes in 30mm and 60mm versions.

Simply by adjusting the height of the stage carrier, the specimen space can be varied continuously for specimen thicknesses from 0 to 110 mm.

Where even more space is needed:
If you require even more space for unusually large specimens, e.g., in intravital microscopy, Axio Scope offers two Vario stands for your reflected-light and fluorescence applications. You can combine this with any of the upper parts to exactly suit your applications and requirements.

There is virtually no limit to the size of the specimen space. The Vario stand columns permit you to observe objects as high as 380 mm such as this tree stump.

Convenient Handling. Efficient Workflow

Designed for 24-hour use, Axio Scope will convince you by its quality and stability. The many intelligent details will make your everyday lab routine a great deal easier and more enjoyable.

Well thought-out, consistent operating convenience can be found in many elements of Axio Scope: the stage drive of the new ergo stage, which can be moved along Y and fixed in place; the focusing mechanism, the 6-place filter wheel with integrated shutter, and the left- and right-hand intensity adjustment of the transmitted-light illuminator.