9 responses to “EEVblog #390 – Mantis Elite Microscope Review”

• Paul November 26th, 2012 at 17:55

  Dave,
  Please explain the optical principle of operation.

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  • Chris Browne November 27th, 2012 at 23:33

    Here is a brief overview of how Mantis works. Sorry if a bit corporate!
    http://www.visioneng.com/technology-mantis-stereo-microscope-spatial-imaging.php

    Regards

    Chris

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• Grapsus November 26th, 2012 at 21:41

  Is that a Bus Pirate board ?

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  • EEVblog November 27th, 2012 at 23:52

    Yep.

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• Steven Ciciora November 27th, 2012 at 01:38

  I can’t believe he dosn’t spend more time talking about _best_ feature of this! I only have the x4 lens, but it gives an incredible depth of view (almost an inch)!. On my more traditional binocular microscope, I can focus on either the top of a chip, the PCB, or somewhere in between, but with this thing, you can turn your pcb at an almost 90 deg. angle and actually see _under_ surface mount chips! Great for making sure there are no hidden solder bridges. I went for the USB camera version, and that was a bit of a dissapointment. Besides the delay, the depth of view is a lot more conventional…
  - Steve

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• Hunter Grembecki November 27th, 2012 at 09:16

  $575 for a lens no way!!!

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  • Nicholas Vinen November 27th, 2012 at 12:45

    I’ve paid a lot more than that for a DSLR lens.

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• Dave November 29th, 2012 at 04:27

  Here is a link on how you can view the two images in the video using the cross-eye method:

  http://www.neilcreek.com/2008/02/28/how-to-see-3d-photos/

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• pertinax December 1st, 2012 at 05:18

  I have found reading glasses to be very handy. Those have magnifications from +1 to +4 and cost about 10 euros or dollars in papershops. I have a set of those for different purposes. And the view is stereo.

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