jaques Posted January 21, 2012 Share #1 Posted January 21, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) I can't help buying anything that has the Leitz name on it... and it is selling for scrap... Today I ended bringing a wheelbarrow load of Zeiss Microscope equipment home- amongst many obscure, redundant, and once very expensive items I found these Leitz pieces. I am assuming they are all related to microscope photography? The Orthomat is actually a camera- with a lovely little 35mm film holder inside. The Lampenhaus (Light House?) seems clear enough- I love the levers that are used to control various colored filters inside... the third rectangular device has no name or number on it- it seems to be another part of the Lampenhas- or an accesory- a kind of beam splitter and director... It contains swinging mirrors... If anyone can tell me anything about the gear- or direct me to info about it- I would greatly appreciate it. This stuff is definitely not up my alley as a collectors (a touch too technical and obscure) so I will be looking to pass it on to someone with an interest- if anyone here is interested I could advertise it for sale on the forum. Does anyone know if it has any value or use today to anyone? know that this is not the place for quotes- I am just curious... I guess there are Leitz microscope collectors and aficionados- maybe some on this forum? It also came with a great deal of odd high end carl zeiss microscope (photography) parts that were possibly from the same set up. If anyone is interested to see them I can post some photos- and they may be relevant to understanding the Orthomat and friends. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/171008-more-leitz-mystery-items-orthomat-3014-lampenhaus-and-friend/?do=findComment&comment=1904176'>More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted January 21, 2012 Posted January 21, 2012 Hi jaques, Take a look here more Leitz mystery items: Orthomat 3014, Lampenhaus and friend?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
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jaapv Posted January 21, 2012 Share #3 Posted January 21, 2012 Might the mirror thing be for the use of polarized light? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted January 21, 2012 Share #4 Posted January 21, 2012 Don't know anything about... but if you are interested, I can send you a pair of pdf files with microscope catalogs of 1967 and 1978 (20 and 96 pages) : PM me in case. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkCambridgeshire Posted January 21, 2012 Share #5 Posted January 21, 2012 There are several expert microscopists and photomacrographers on the Photomacrography Forum who would be willing to answer any questions you have about this apparatus www.photomacrography.net :: View Forum - Equipment Discussions Best wishes dunk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wpo Posted January 22, 2012 Share #6 Posted January 22, 2012 Good morning, may be I can help you. The Orthomat in front is a (very good if complete) microscope camera, which belongs to the FSA-trinocular Tube, first developed in the 1960s for the Ortholux and Orthoplan microscope stand. In opposite to former trinocular tubes this one compensates the difference of tube length, depending by adjusting the different distances of the eyepieces. So you do not need a separate eyepiece for adjusting the sharpness before shooting like you need, for example, by working with the MIKAS. What you see sharp in your eyepieces (one should be attached with a photo frame) you should get automatically sharp on your film. What you see is only the camera. Under the upper door of the camera should be special, exchangeable film container, so one can change between different kinds of 35mm film without loosing frames. And you need the power supply and light meter, which has to be connected with the black cable, if you want to work with it. The camera includes a photo optic with a 3,2x magnification. The white light on the front side is burning during exposition time and the red light shows you the transport of film. The big lamp house on the left behind is a special lamp house for high performance light sources like the 250W Mercury highpressure short arc lamp or 150W Xenon short arc lamp etc. The black knobs outside allow to adjust the lamp in all three directions, because you must not open the lamp house while the lamp is burning or hot. It includes a small box with four exchangeable light filters which are switchable in and out. It also needs a special power supply for every light source, of course. This lamp house can be connected to the mirror house on the right side. Itself has to be attached to the microscope stand. In case of working with the Orthoplan, it can be connected at an upper position for incident light or at the lower position for translucent light. The mirror house allows changing between three different light sources for different purposes with only one switch and without any great manipulation on the microscope stand and the working place. Excuse my sad english, please. I do not have so much training. Best greetings Wolfgang Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaques Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share #7 Posted January 22, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Danke fur alles Wlfgang! If this is 'sad english' your 'happy english' must be of a Shakespearean quality- what you wrote was perfectly clear and given the complex nature of the technical explanation very complete. Thankyou for the detailed response. Mein Deutsch ist so schlecht... The camera (Orthomat) part does have a film container in place- it is marked Leitz but also has another illegible makers mark. The quality is very nice as you would expect... Unfortunately I don't have the light meter or cables. I wonder if anyone would still like to actually use this equipment (?)- I imagine there are far more modern and simple ways of going about the process digitally. I would like to be able to send all this to someone who can make use of it... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wpo Posted January 22, 2012 Share #8 Posted January 22, 2012 Mein Deutsch ist so schlecht... Hello jaques, so you can see that we both have the same problem Thank you for your compliment. The only possibility for me to speak english is sometimes a short talk with one of the foreign students in our institution and this is quite different from writing a text which can be theoretically read by thousands of people. The camera (Orthomat) part does have a film container in place- it is marked Leitz but also has another illegible makers mark. The film container was initially developed in the 50´s for the ADOX 300 camera made by C. Schleussner (ADOX) in Neu-Isenburg / Germany. I do not know, where the camera was produced, but I suppose that parts or may be the whole camera was fabricated in the LEITZ factory in Wetzlar as a job order production. So the LEITZ microscope fabrication had a produceable interchangeable film container when they started developing the Orthomat microscope camera a few years later. One can find the film container with different surfaces: black (the oldest version), hammertone and light gray. I wonder if anyone would still like to actually use this equipment (?)- I imagine there are far more modern and simple ways of going about the process digitally. I think you are right, except a few amateur microscopists no one will use this camera technique today for his work. There are too much advantages by using digital photography in science work. I have the latest version of the orthomat with variable projection optic as my own, complete and functioning well, but I did not use it during the last years. Interested in photomicrography since mor than 25 years, I collected a lot of information materials about the microscopes of LEITZ and ZEISS. So, if I can help you ... All the best Wolfgang Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpattison Posted January 23, 2012 Share #9 Posted January 23, 2012 Found this on the web... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC376290/pdf/applmicro00119-0002.pdf (first page shows a (bad) photo of it) John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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