7. Startup

For Leica DM4000 M/DM4500 P:

Function button

Function

BF

 

Bright field incident light

ICR

 

Interference contrast, incident light

DF

 

Dark field incident light

POL

 

Polarization incident light

CHANGE RL

Switches through all incident light contrast methods

INT

Increases the brightness (incident light)

INT

Reduces the brightness (incident light)

AP

Opens the aperture diaphragm (incident light)

AP

Closes the aperture diaphragm (incident light)

FD

Opens the field diaphragm (incident light)

FD

Closes the field diaphragm (incident light)

SHUTTER RL

DM4000 M only: Opens/closes the incident light shutter

FLUO

Fluorescence (last filter cube)

CUBE 1

Chooses the fluorescence cube on position 1

CHANGE FLUO

Switches through all filter cubes

CONOS

DM4500 P only: The Bertrand lens is in the beam path

 

 

(conoscopic beam path)

FOCUS FINDER

Finds the smallest incident light field diaphragm

 

 

and toggles back to the original field diaphragm.

BF TL

Bright field transmitted light

BF-POL

DM4500 P only: Polarization transmitted light (conoscopy)

INT

Increases the brightness (transmitted light)

INT

Reduces the brightness (transmitted light)

AP

Opens the aperture diaphragm (transmitted light)

AP

Closes the aperture diaphragm (transmitted light)

FD

Opens the field diaphragm (transmitted light)

FD

Closes the field diaphragm (transmitted light)

COMBI

Combination methods (BF and BF TL)

CHANGE TUBE

Switches through various types of beamsplitting

100% VIS

100% documentation port

50:50

 

50% documentation port / 50% camera

100% CAMERA

100% camera

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Leica DM4000M, DM5000B, DM4500P manual Startup For Leica DM4000 M/DM4500 P Function button

DM4500P, DM5000B, DM4000M specifications

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