Rotating multi lens technique gathers more of the image, expanding the optical rays coming from the larger eyepieces to give a brighter, clearer, and a more usable field of view
A breakthrough in microscope technology could lead to major reductions in eyestrain and fatigue.
Isis, available from Sartorius, will radically change the way people use their microscopes, allowing for a more comfortable viewing position. The Isis is available as both a complete microscope and also as an eyepiece which replaces the conventional binocular eyepieces in a lab microscope.
It uses a newly patented rotating multi lens technique that quite literally gathers more of the image, expanding the optical rays coming from the larger Isis eyepieces to give a brighter, clearer, and - importantly - a more usable field of view.
Glasses are normally removed for conventional eyepiece microscope use, which means the user must re-focus at a different distance.
This quickly leads to eyestrain fatigue.
With Isis operators no longer need to position their eyes right up against the instrument.
This allows greater head movement, improves posture and is also ideal for spectacle wearers.
Without needing to move their heads - or the subject being studied - users can clearly observe the full field image.
A small movement of the eye no longer means losing part of the field of vision, as the pupil stays within the latitude of the twelve-times-wider expanded pupil image.
The Isis can be retrofitted to a broad range of quality microscope instruments with installations and set up taking only a few seconds.
Currently, Isis can be hosted by stereoscopic microscope systems from Leica, Motic, Nikon, Olympus, Wild and Zeiss, and by monoscopic routine and research microscopes from Leica, Nikon, Olympus, and Zeiss.
