[Frameworks] a good microscope for a Bolex?

[Scott Dorsey]

The low cost solution is the $20 adaptor from Edmund and a Spencer student 
microscope.  It's cumbersome, but you can get good images if you don't have 
to follow anything moving.

Your main problems with those cheap student microscopes is that it's hard
to get enough light on the subject, there is a lot of flare, and the stages
are touchy, but all of these are things you can work around with patience.

Because all this stuff was heavily standardized and there are DIN threads on
everything, you can buy high end Zeiss objectives and put them on a cheap
Spencer.  The Russians right now make some very good objectives that are not
too expensive and will have a lot less flare and birefringence than the 
original American Optical junk.

Get the adaptor and play around!
--scott