Finally today my new lenses for my Leica A60S stereomicroscope arrived
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I have this microscope for over four years now and I love it except one thing: the minimum zoom is 5x which results in a field of view of around 46 mm and the height to the table was okish with aprox. 10cm.
The main issue that I faced was that when I started to solder, I often had to look away from the microscope in order to move the tip in the aproximate area.
So the actually minimum zoom was just too large for my personal taste.
Now there was no solution till I stumbled upon this shop:
1) Leica A60 Objective Lens Adapter
https://www.engraver.com/leica-a60-objective-lens-adapter/2) Leica 0.63 Objective Lens 10446319
https://www.engraver.com/leica-0-63-objective-lens/I ordered directly from Leica which made it more expensive but that is also where the microscope came from but at first they did not know this even existed
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In the brochures of the A60 it is also not mentioned.
Anyway today they arrived and now I have a field of view in the minimum zoom of a stunning 77mm (around 3x) and the height to the table to the ledlight is now 14 cm.
I am very happy with the result, this makes smd soldering way easier and TH soldering also an option (my eyesight is deteriorating at age so this is an extra bonus).
Only negative is the price (1/5th of the price of the microscope) and the max zoom has ofcourse decreased proportionately from 30x (4,6mm FOV) to 18x (12,6mm FOV).
The latter is not a big problem, if really needed I can always unscrew the adapter+lens and have my original settings back in a minute.