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Description of this part for the microscope.

In practice, it works like a "single-objective nosepiece".

A M27 - RMS adapter is screwed into this adapter, allowing an objective with RMS thread to be mounted.

Note: MMU-3 is the model name written in the Latin alphabet. The original model name is written in Cyrillic and looks similar to "MMY-3".

The last images include scans from the instruction manual clearly showing which element this is.

Description of this part for the microscope.

The light source is inserted into this housing (the standard light source in this model is an 8V 20W bulb). The entire housing is covered with dense metal fins acting as a heat sink to dissipate heat. At the end of this housing there is a condenser lens collimating the light beam and a dovetail mount. This mount is used to attach the condenser to the next element of the illumination path, namely the holder with a slot for insertable sliders.

The model designation MMU-3 is written using the Latin alphabet. When written in Cyrillic, this designation looks like MMY-3, and people unfamiliar with the Cyrillic alphabet may therefore refer to this microscope model in that way.

Interestingly, the dovetail connection used here has a diameter of 41.5 mm, which is the standard mounting diameter for accessories (for example microscope heads and intermediate tubes) not only in Lomo microscopes, but also in Carl Zeiss Jena, Romanian IOR, Czechoslovak Meopta and many other microscopes. For this reason, this lamp housing is sometimes used as an EPI reflected light source in various Carl Zeiss Jena microscope modifications.

In the last photograph, on the scanned page from the instruction manual of the Lomo MMU-1 microscope, an arrow indicates which element is being offered and where it is located in the microscope, allowing this part to be identified unambiguously.

Description of this part for the microscope.

microscope stage. It is also possible to mount a specialized stage on the side rails - these rails are visible in the photographs and are located on both sides of this stand base.

In the last photograph, on the scanned page from the Lomo MMU-1 microscope manual, an arrow indicates which component is being offered and where it is located in the microscope, allowing this part to be identified unambiguously.

Description of this part for the microscope.

mechanism is precise focusing - converting the horizontal movement of the adjustment knob into precise vertical movement.

Description of this part for the microscope.

is to switch the reflected-light operating mode between darkfield and brightfield observation.

This slider is inserted into a slot located in the Lomo MMU-3 microscope between the microscope body and the lamp housing.

This slider has two positions:
1. Darkfield stop (darkfield disc). When the slider is set to this position, the microscope can be used for reflected-light darkfield observations.
2. Frosted diffuser filter with an iris diaphragm. When the slider is set to this position, the microscope can be used for reflected-light brightfield observations.

In the last photograph, an arrow indicates which component is being offered and where it is located in the microscope, allowing this microscope part to be identified unambiguously.

Description of this part for the microscope.

This microscope part performs two essential functions:
- mounting the microscope body onto the stand column
- providing coarse focus (macro movement) along the permanently mounted rack

More precisely, this assembly consists of the following components:
- stand column clamp
- stand column locking screw
- dovetail guide on which the microscope body with the optics moves
- rack on which the microscope body with the optics moves

Please note:
- the original Cyrillic designation of this model is: ЛОМО ММУ-3
- for people using the Latin alphabet who know that the manufacturer is "Lomo", it visually appears as: Lomo MMY-3
- however, the original designation is pronounced: Lomo MMU-3

The last photograph in the gallery includes an arrow indicating exactly which microscope part is being offered and where it is installed inside the microscope, making it easy to identify this component unambiguously.

Description of this part for the microscope.

part is an intermediate tube located in the optical path between the reflected-light illuminator with its condenser and the microscope body. It performs two functions:
- on one side it is attached to the microscope body, and this side contains the slot into which the iris diaphragm slide is inserted
- on the opposite side there is a dovetail mount for the illuminator assembly

Please note:
- the original Cyrillic designation of this model is: ЛОМО ММУ-3
- for users of the Latin alphabet who know that the manufacturer is "Lomo", the designation looks like: Lomo MMY-3
- however, the original designation is read as: Lomo MMU-3

The last photograph shows this microscope part indicated with an arrow and its exact position inside the microscope, allowing it to be identified unambiguously.

Description of this part for the microscope.

220V - 240V
Output: 8V
Output power: 20W
Power plug: European flat plug
Potentiometer: yes, smooth brightness adjustment

Designed for:
- Lomo OI-21 illuminator
- Lomo OI-35 illuminator
- illuminator used with MBC-9 and MBC-10 stereo microscopes

Also compatible with older black Lomo microscopes:
- MBB-1
- MIN-8
- EPI reflected-light illuminators, including those used with the Lomo METAM and Lomo MMU-3
- and many others

Some older Lomo microscopes (for example, the MBC-1 and MBC-2 stereo microscopes) may use different connectors, but they use the same Lomo 8V 20W BA15d lamps.

Description of this part for the microscope.

3x
Kind: PR (ПР) - projection eyepiece for photomicrography
Type: K - compensating eyepiece
Mounting diameter: 23.2 mm

Projection eyepieces are special microscope eyepieces used to project the microscopic image onto the sensor of a camera. Many microscope photo tubes and trinocular heads have a seat for a projection eyepiece.

The "compatibility" section lists the microscope models this eyepiece can be used with, but only LOMO microscopes are listed there, as examples, and that list is of course not complete. This projection eyepiece can be used with any microscope of any manufacturer, as long as it has a tube or another seat for an eyepiece of 23.2 mm diameter.

Description of this part for the microscope.

The tube allows a camera or a camera body to be attached to a trinocular head or directly to the microscope body, even when there is no trinocular head.

Basic technical parameters of this tube:
Manufacturer: LOMO (ЛОМО)
Colour: black, rings and barrel chrome-plated
Tilt angle: none, this is a straight tube
Internal optics: none - not even a deflecting prism
Mounting to the trinocular head or microscope body: ring dovetail (male part)
Dovetail diameter: 41 mm
Type of connection at the output: empty tube / barrel
Tube diameter at the output: 23.2 mm internal diameter
Length of the barrel / tube: variable
Length adjustment: yes - the barrel is extendable, with a scale from 140 to 200 mm and a knurled locking ring

This is the version with adjustable tube length. A scale from 140 to 200 mm is engraved on the extendable barrel, with a reference line and intermediate divisions, and the setting is locked with a knurled ring. This gives two things at once. First, a continuous change of the image scale - the longer the tube, the larger the image falling on the sensor or the film, so the framing can be adjusted without changing the objective. Second, and more importantly, the ability to work with objectives computed for different optical tube lengths: 160, 170, 180, 190 and 200 mm. Carl Zeiss Jena and LOMO objectives are computed for 160 mm, Leitz Wetzlar for 170 mm, some objectives of metallurgical and measuring microscopes for 190 or 200 mm - here you simply set the barrel to the right value and the objective works under its design conditions, instead of delivering an image with residual aberration.

Since the adapter has an empty barrel with an internal diameter of 23.2 mm on the output side, a projection eyepiece of that diameter can be placed in it, or a so-called "USB eyepiece", that is a digital microscope camera. Adapters between the 23.2 mm barrel and the M42 thread are also widely available, and from the M42 thread you can move on to any other mount: Nikon, Canon, Sony and others.

Such a tube can be mounted directly on the microscope body instead of the head. A dovetail seat with a diameter of 41.0 - 41.5 mm is found, among others, on the microscopes:
- LOMO
- Carl Zeiss Jena
- Meopta
- IOR
- Reichert Biopan
- Olympus CH

It is also often used in microscopes with a slightly larger seat, among others Zeiss West Germany, Leitz Wetzlar, PZO, Will Wetzlar, Hund Wetzlar.

The "compatibility" section gives an example list of microscopes this tube fits, although it is not a complete list.

The last photo shows a LOMO Erudit microscope with this photo tube and a projection eyepiece mounted. It is an example of use.