blossomchris
I feel better than James Brown
Think I am tempted, especially as I can get close to the stylus. the arm can be carefully lifted off its pivot and placed on the platter and inspected from there.
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Many thanks Tony - just ordered a 10x, but off eBay with free shipping here.
I wonder if a 15x might be the best bet all round. Has anyone tried the sizes other than 10x or 20x?
Thanks. Just purchased, not really for styli but because I sometimes assume a devilish professor pose when assessing the quality of restoration students’ fine line work on things like lacquer boxes.Many thanks Tony - just ordered a 10x, but off eBay with free shipping here.
It would be a shame not to get the 10x, it is the more useful of the two by some distance IMO. Also bare in mind much of the Chinese junk lies about the magnification, the 10x is way better than an illuminated Chinese one I’ve got and seen advertised as a 20x!
Note my comments above about focal distances.
For anyone not familiar with using a microscope, the object has to be incredibly close to the lens for high magnification. To be honest, I have not tried with the one here as I had assumed that getting close enough at a useful angle, at high mag', would be extremely difficult, quite apart from risky. From most angles, I suspect that the cart' body will get in the way, but I have not tried.
You also need really good, intense lighting too - the higher the mag', the brighter it needs to be.
TONY, your pic. of the Shure stylus is superb. What kind of magnification is that, or, in other words, would you get that clarity and magnification from your 10X Belomo triplet?