Baloto, Fatima S.

BSMT 2y2-5

MICROSCOPE WITH LABELS AND FUNCTION

OCCULAR LENS (EYEPIECE)

DIOPTER ADJUSTMENT

TURRET OBJECTIVE NOSEPIECE

REVOLVING NOSEPIECE ARM
HIGH POWER OBJECTIVE
SCANNING OBJECTIVE

OIL IMMERSION OBJECTIVE LOWER POWER OBJECTIVE

IRIS DIAPHRAGM
COARSE ADJUSTMENT KNOB
CONDENSER
FINE ADJUSTMENT KNOB
LIGHT SOURCE

BASE

FUNCTION:

Eyepiece or ocular lens: Eyepiece is the lens, present at the top and is used to see the objects
under study. Eyepiece lens contains a magnification of 10X or 15X.

Diopter/occular adjustment: Technically, the diopter is a measure the correction value of a

lens. It equals the reciprocal of the focal length in meters. If a lens can focus at 1 meter, it has a
diopter of 1. If it focuses at 2 meters, it has a diopter of 1/2. Each microscope eyepiece has a
diopter adjustment to allow you to make minor corrections to the image, compensating for the
difference in vision between the two eyes.

Resolving nosepiece: It is also known as the Turret. Resolving nosepiece has holders for the
different objective lenses. It allows the rotation of the lenses while viewing.
Objective lenses: Generally, three or four objective lenses are found on a microscope, with
ranges of 10X, 40X, 100X powers. Lenses are colour coded, the shortest lens is of the lowest
power, and the longest lens is high power lenses.

Iris Diaphragm: Iris Diaphragm helps in controlling the amount of light that is passing through
the opening of the stage. It is helpful in the adjustment of the control of light that enters.

Coarse adjustment knob: Used for focus on scanning. Usually the low power lens is used
enabling the movement of the tube.

Fine adjustment knob: Used for focus on oil. Moves the body tube for focusing the high power
lens.

Arm: It supports the tube of the microscope and connects to the base of the microscope.

Condensor: The main function of condenser lens is focusing the light on the specimen under
observation. When very high powers of 400X are used, condenser lenses are very important.
Presence of condenser lens gives a sharper image as compared to the microscope with no
condenser lens.

Base: Provides basal support for the microscope.

Scanning Objective Lens (4x): Combined with the eyepiece lens, this lens will provide the
lowest magnification power. For example, 10x eyepiece lens, multiplied by the 4x objective lens
gives a total magnification of 40x.

Low Power Objective (10x): This objective lens is the next lowest powered and is often the
most helpful when it comes to analyzing glass slide samples. The total magnification for this lens
is equal to 100x magnification (10x eyepiece lens x the 10x objective equals 100).

High Power Objective Lens (40x): This is referred to as the high powered objective lens since
it is ideal for observing the small details within a specimen sample. The total magnification for
this lens is equal to 400x magnification (10x eyepiece lens x the 40x objective equals 400).

Oil Immersion Objective (100x): This objective lens will achieve the greatest magnification
and has a total magnification of 1000x (10x eyepiece lens x the 100x objective equals 1000).