New Microscope and Camera System Installed

Santa brought us a brand new Leica DM6M motorised microscope!

Give us a few weeks to get to grips with it and you’ll be seeing its output in our reports. The highlights include Z-Stacks for focused images and Tile Stitching for Ferrography Overviews as pictured below.

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