Hi, it's unboxing time! Very excited about this one. I've always wanted a real professional microscope for the lab here. I know I've already got like the Mantis Art microscope and the Sugano microscope. Awesome microscopes.

felt like you know soldiering and general inspection and things like that. but I really never really had a top-quality microscope for really high power magnification and stuff like a couple of hundred times reviewing wafers and real other things in real intricate detail. especially one that I can actually shoot video through. I've got a couple of those, you know, cheap-ass us B ones, but they're just.

they're just garbage, right? So I've been looking for one for quite some time. quite difficult to get here in Australia probably dime a dozen in the US but finding Chompers someone who can actually ship one willing to ship one here to Australia is a bit harder. I Know this brand new ones like a lot of people rave about the Am scope ones for example, and they're probably okay, but they don't They're never going to be nearly as good as a proper bred microscope. So this is an Olympus Bh series either.

This is the Bh M. It's the trinocular one so I can put a video camera on top. it's you know, regular stereoscopic one. it's got playing our optics and all sorts of stuff so hopefully it's okay.

I'm a little bit concerned because well, this was sent via the eBay global Shipping program and this is the first time I've used this. I asked on Twitter a few people went oh oh god no, that's the kiss of Death for sending stuff and they apparently repacked them. Which is like what I'm really concerned about? Fingers crossed. We'll see what happens anyway.

Let's open this puppy up, shall we? And there's the Kiss of Death sticker. apparently that's the company they use Pitney Bowes and ebay automatically adds on like import charges and everything that is charged separately to this company. So you pay the regular, you know you pay the seller and then automatically they'll take out another charge for like import charges and shipping and all that sort of stuff for this thing. And now I'm a 10 concern because look, it's already ripped here.

Looks well, it looks like it's just packed with these whether or not they repacked it like that. but it's when I picked it up. it's all very loose. Check it out.

I Mean there's you know, like that is not not the least bit solid. So I am somewhat somewhat concerned. Oh look, Oh show you this. Hang on.

This does not cut it at all. Look here's the bloody look. it's just are you? me? like they didn't even have enough foam pellets on top? This is absolutely ridiculous. Unbelievably bad packaging for a bloody microscope.

repacked it. Um, this small but jeez. I'm look at that. I mean there's these SD stereo optics right there.

just like totally exposed. I've got a surprise. the whole head hasn't snapped off the way they are. You know, treat stuff.

You see those horror videos of you know? Airport you know way they get things on and off the plane and stuff like that look just a piss there. a little bit of bubble wrap. yeah my lamp at the back is cracked. Unbelievable.

What a complete load of garbage. So here's the cracked light. end on it you can see I'm surprised the whole thing. just the this whole part just didn't snap right off.

I mean seriously? I am not sure if that's supposed to have something that's for like the filters I believe to go in. so I'm not sure what's going on there I've stunned that survived at all. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be that loose, but anyway, that's just for the light going in so that's not too bad and the bulb inside is not shattered by the looks of it. but I haven't tried it yet.

Now, if you're buying these sort of metallurgical microscopes, it's important about the objective lenses here. and it's important to get plan objectives. What plan means is that it is basically our ads. No distortion Oh the entire field of view and you might think that's more obvious.

Okay, but at high magnifications, you know it's It's quite an art to make optics over the entire field of view that don't distort anything and that's what these plan objectives do. So I got at times 40. That's what the 40 on the end is. These are the original, Olympus ones are 20 and then I've just got a regular times 10 which is not a plan objective and I've got two smaller ones 2.5 times and the other is oh it doesn't say anyway.

it's bound to be yeah, bugger. Also, really small magnifications. What I'm really after is the times 40 and the times 20. and then you multiply those objectives to get your final magnification by your eyepiece is here.

these are about WF 10. SWF stands for a wide field. You want the wide field ones if possible. they give a better a larger field of view.

these are times 10 you can get you know, times 15 and times 20 and 25 and all that. So if I've got times 40, objective down there and a times 10 up here on the eyepiece, then a total magnification of 400 times. This is a nice little sliding pupil adjustment thing so that's really quite nice. The lenses are very dirty.

this is like straight out of the box so they look relatively clean on the inside which is the main part. So I can I mean this whole thing is quite quite dusty in a bit how you doing so. it really needs a good cleanup. So here's the complete microscope.

Luckily it is one big diecast metal piece. These Olympus ones were built to last built to be serviced. You know, really top-quality microscopes and you'll notice it does have the UH trinocular camera port on the top and it does come with these adapters now. I Need to convert into a Sony E-mount for both my camera here.

This is a Sony E-mount lens so hopefully you know I could like mount that directly on top or got a point seven times various adapters so that plugs into the tube on the top I'm not sure what this puppy does, it's some sort of, you know to clamp it at some sort of distance and anyway I need to convert that that's adjustable as well I need to convert that into a a Sony E-mount but I should be able to buy an adapter for that. That's the plan now. One interesting thing that's been custom fitted to this thing is this midotaur micrometer here for the Z-axis here. so you know you can see that.

Then you can actually measure the vertical distance of my show how useful that's going to be to me, but you can see how much it changes by now. One of the good things about this BH series. It is a metallurgical microscope. It is designed.

in fact, they show what the front page of the brochure for our wafer inspection and things like that. Although it's you know it can do a ton of different uses. It's got a reasonably large flat state this is called the stage part of it and the adjustment is a bit I Thought it would be finer than that on the X and the y. so it's got individual X&Y adjustments, but that's a bit that jiggles AB it's a bit loosey-goosey so I'm not not that impressed by that.

although the z-axis I'm the little micro adjustment there, but the Zed axis and the XY stage it's You know it's still going to be better than like an AM scope or something like that. but of course you can just you know, move this around until you just you know you get it near enough to where you want and then you really get your focus. You really want fine adjustment on your Zed here, which adjusts your focus so that's really important and it's got that. But the thing with this be Hate series it you can get like a whole bunch of add-ons for it to make it do almost anything.

and I don't know what half the stuff on here does. I've guess I've got a learning curve it can do, you know, bright field and dark field optics and you know all sorts of whiz-bang stuff. But but a proper professional brand microscope like this Olympus one. It's going to be streets ahead in terms of optical quality and alignment and all sorts of stuff over your I Am scope when you buy an ebay from China or you know, India sell a lot of them these days and things like that, this one is going to beat the pants off it.

assuming it still works hopefully. And I Got this original transformer for it runs on 110 volt and you can see the it's got a little bar graph there that's rather neat. and yeah, it's like a nominal six volt are bold so this just adjusts the just adjust the bulb in the back of this thing but it's not coming on at all. So I don't know whether the bulbs blowing broken or bloody.

Whatever. Yeah, the bulb is blowing. I Tested the transformer and it's fine and of course the all the surrounding part around here all support around it. Just yeah, it just shattered in transit.

damn it somehow. I Don't think I'm gonna be able to get one of those at the local hardware store. New theory Bob and that seems to have gone on quite nicely. Yep, Spacer fills in the gap for the is it gonna be fabulous? Oh yeah it is, that's relatively even light.

Now if we adjust it, pull it back. Okay, it's actually bring it back and oh, look it, it sort of creates like a dead spot if you rotate it. mm-hmm yeah, look look I I'm sure it could be further out. Laughter? Yeah, let's go further out for it.

Yeah, this is where you know the lights also. not just trivially, not just shine a torch in there. It was just because I had that. I When I brush it out far enough, the whole thing falls at an angle angle.

It's being okay. We do have some I Think the calibration dot says looks like calibration data and it's nice. color isn't it? It's a nice color in there. No, no, it doesn't quite stay in focus when you swap lenses.

So what? what lens are we on at the moment? What do you know? 400 times And that's the other thing. the weather. Actually, we're actually using digital zoom on the camera at the moment because if you just use the adapter up here like that, then you actually get the circle. You actually get the the full-on circle like that.

which is not great. So we do have to digitally zoom into that puppy. I'm afraid. look at the depth.

So yeah, this is. You can tell that this isn't a thickness of 0. It's not completely flat because yep, change focus between. you can change focus between the different points.

Yeah yeah, it's a physical and now you can actually see the hotspot of the light there when you are. What's that? We are only using like the times 10 objective lens or something so you can see that because we've got no no diffuser in there at the moment actually diffusing that light so it's quite hot spotty all right now. I've actually got this other HDMI output of my Sony our next VG 30 camera hooked up to my capture card and sorry about this if I touch this bench at all If I even try and use my mouse, you can see it just bound. the image bounces around like that.

Anyway, this is actually what we see with full zoom out so obviously you know that's not great. We would have to get another sort of lens in there if we wanted to get the full resolution, but what I'm doing now is I'm actually zooming in with the digital zoom on my Sony camera. So I'm not getting the full resolution out of this thing. So anyway, it's good enough for today's purposes.

but check this out now! what we've got is we've got a naught Point seven lens on the which converts the tri-axial port camera port to the Sony NEX V G 30. but it just so happens with the sensor I'm using on the next VG sensor and everything else. It gives this same field of view as the same field of view as the X 10 wide field lenses on the microscope if you actually look through it. So I've got to try 40 times objective lens and with the we've checked it's the same through the port.

So we're basically I get in. What we're seeing here is 400 times magnification on a wafer so you can actually see and if I adjust the focus you can see the depth of field. There is very touchy on this thing. very very touchy but you can see the array down here now I'm if I move the stage of the microscope, the stage isn't good enough.

Look, this is some sort of memory area obviously. Sorry there we go. Something of more interest: AT&T It's upside down and all the electrons are gonna fall out but that's is an 18 T die I don't know I Just randomly chose this from I had a box of wafers so I don't know? look see these in the center of the screen. They're really interesting jump overs there that jump over these larger power traces for want of a better word.

and I'm no dieeee silicon expert. so I pretend to know what actual elements I'm looking at on the die here, but you can see that it works quite well and the light actually works pretty good as well. Now this wafer David had to actually clean this waiver. It was caked in dust and stuff so he actually cleaned it with Windex Yep, he's a big fan.

He's a big Windex fanboy so you know like it's not important so look, we can see stuff on there I Don't know whether or not that's still dirt or whatever or whether or not that sir, you know we saw some scratches before and things like that. So here's some of the featuresnow are: Whack in the times. Let me rotate it to the times twenty lens and it's slightly out of focus a little bit so we can bring that back into focus. There we go and we can move along these elements along.

here. these are they're actually obviously the bond some bonding points and this is interesting. These like red, you know, a calibration type elements or something like that. It works really well out.

our diffuser seems to be working quite well. Anyway, the colors. great. Look at this that's just fantastic.

I Love it. So this is this: so this light basically what we're doing is so we cleaned up the microscope and it works. a treat even though it was absolutely abused in postage and we've replaced the light source. By the way, where we're running about Noir Point eight watts on that lid.

I Think it's a Cree Xpe or something like that. like an older one with like a 1 watt capable. LED and we're running that at no point a what? so we don't need a huge amount of light. mean the original bulb in this was like a 15 watt job or something like that.

but this? anyway. this is a really really nice way for inspection microscope now I mean we can obviously get improvements with this. we can, you know, tweak the light source but I reckon that light? it's pretty darn impressive. What do you think? If anyone's like really an expert I Know there are on the Eevblog forum.

They have helped me out in the past so thank you. I Do forget names but I know there are some really good way for microscope in experts on the on the forum and they have helped down. look at that structure there. That's look at that, that's the 3d elements something sticking out there.

Wow The depth of field on this thing is absolutely amazing and let us know if this is accurate or not because it looks pretty darn good to me anyway. I'm very happy with this. so more videos in the future. I Think if I ever need to I do some way for inspection, this one's a winner.

It would be nice actually. I might get one of those A.m. scopes which are very popular, those ebay ones everyone's talking about, those in the forum and stuff and I might actually get one of those and actually compare it to this. Olympus Rbh M, which is a wafer pretty much designed for wafer inspection and stuff like that, but it really is quite old and servicing these things is an art you actually get you know people into service these.

you generally wouldn't try and do them yourself unless you knew you're doing. but look at that pad there. it looks like that's had a wafer probe on that does it on that pad in the center. Anyway, that's really cool.

It's worked really well and I'm pretty happy with those results. so hopefully we can do some more videos on this in the future. So if you liked it, please give it a big thumbs up. And as always, discuss on the Eevblog forum or in the comments down below I Hope you liked it.

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