infocus #24 December 2011 From an Amateur's Perspective

Malcolm Reade describes his story as an amateur microscopist and how his views and experiences differ from those of a professional.

DOI: 10.22443/rms.inf.1.78

"My interest in microscopes and other optical instruments has been with me from a very early age. As a nine year old I owned a very small student’s instrument, with one of each objective and ocular lenses. It had no focussing mechanism, just a chromed brass tube sliding through a split body. It did have a revolving mirror below, however, for projecting light through a slide."

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