Why Students Love It
The OM36 compound 1000x microscope has been a perennial favorite of schools, and for good reason. It’s versatile enough to train basic microscopy to fifth-grade students but also fits specifications for medical schools in the U.S.
The OM36 is built with young, learning students in mind. From 25 years of building microscopes, we picked up some ways to incorporate features to interest and engage your students throughout your lesson plan.
It’s built with a solid industrial design, and 1000x magnification (being pretty much the limit when it comes to visible light microscopy). Magnification of this caliber helps your students see the deepest inner workings of stained bacteria.
Let’s Get Optical
The OM36 compound student microscope includes a binocular or trinocular Seidentopf microscope head inclined at 45 degrees, creating a comfortable and ergonomic working posture for students.
This helps them stay engaged with the microscope throughout your entire lesson. The head also rotates 360 degrees for flexible viewing positions, making in-class student collaboration a breeze.
When your students take a look at specimens under the OM36, they get crisp and clear imagery. We build our student microscopes with glass optics to help your students get accustomed to professional-grade microscopy equipment they may encounter in the future.
Check out the optical features that help get students engaged:
- A rear-facing quadruple nosepiece.
- Two wide field WF10x eyepieces for improved viewing.
- Diopters integrated into both oculars to enable individual eye focusing.
- A head adjustable through 55-75mm to adapt to different interpupillary distances.
- Four parcentered, coated, parfocal, 185mm achromatic objectives (4x, 10x, 40x spring, 100x spring, oil immersion).
- 40x and 100x spring-loaded objectives to reduce damage risk to slides.
- Magnification levels include 40x, 100x, 400x, and 1,000x (unless optional higher power eyepieces are used).
If you just don’t like your Omano microscope and want to send it back after a few weeks of use, do it. We’ll take it back with no questions asked.
If you have a problem with it 30 years from now, we’ll fix it. We made a decision decades ago that we would offer a lifetime limited warranty because we know we don’t have to worry about quality issues.
Just under $150 on your order? There are dozens of small accessories you can add to your order to get that free shipping. Check out some prepared slides, slide covers, or stains.
Focus on the Stage
The OM36 microscope features an integrated, double-layered, graduated mechanical stage that measures 110mm x 120mm. The range of X-Y movement is 70mm x 25mm and the stage includes a spring-loaded slide clamp for exact positioning of the specimen.
The stage is controlled by convenient dropdown, coaxial coarse/fine controls so students can make adjustments without taking their eyes off the specimen, which improves the user experience and helps keep your students engaged.
Other features include:
- A rack stop that increases safety by ensuring that the stage does not interfere with the objectives and damage the slides
- A slip clutch control to mitigate the risk of damaging the focus controls through overextension
Farewell, Weak Illumination!
The OM36 compound student microscope is built with a professional Abbe 1.25 N condenser with an Iris diaphragm for optimal adjustments.
Swap Out that Hard Eyepiece for Soft Imaging
Technology is a part of our day-to-day lives. Weaning students off technology and putting them onto a microscope is a challenge for many educators.
What if there was a way to combine a love of technology with a passion for microscopy?
You can pair the OM36 with a Summit Series digital microscope camera to make this compound microscope into a digital microscope in an instant. The Summit Series cameras are known for their remarkable color resolution and color sensitivity, meaning your students can study bright, clear, and vivid images under their scope.
In addition, the included 0.5x reducing lens makes for an image that is significantly closer to that seen through the eyepieces with the naked eye.
A Summit Series camera comes with robust documentation and measuring software that your students can use to manipulate and share their discoveries.
The Summit Series microscope cameras are compatible with a C/CS mount, 23mm eyepiece adapter, and 30mm and 30.5mm collars (fitting almost any other microscope).
Other features of the Summit Series microscope cameras include:
- Fast refresh rates
- Auto/manual exposure
- White balance control
- Fullscreen live imaging
- Time-lapse photography
- User-friendly image capture
A 23mm camera adapter comes with the trinocular version of the OM36.
What Else is in the Box
- Dust Cover
- Manual
- Spare Bulb
- Spare Fuse
- Immersion oil
Omano OM36 Series
OM36-B Compound Microscope 
OM36-BL LED Binocular Compound Microscope 
OM36-T Trinocular Compound Microscope 
OM36-TL LED Trinocular Compound Microscope 
Summit SK2-1.3X 1.3MP PC / MAC Compatible Digital Microscope Camera 
Summit SK2-10X 10.0MP PC / MAC Compatible Digital Microscope Camera 
Reticle, 20mm Linear 
Reticle, 20mm Grid 
Pack 1: Book & 5 Prepared Slides 
Pack 2: Book, Starter Slide & Stain Kit & 5 Prepared Slides 
Pack 3A: Book, Starter Slide Kit & 15 Prepared Animal Slides