E. LEITZ ORTHOPLAN BLACK LIMITED PRODUCTION 1965 INITIAL DEMO MODEL FOR USA REPS For Sale

This is most likely a first for items....a black Orthoplan launch model from 1965 (S/N 636755) that was used at trade shows and for sales reps to make early demos here in America and abroad. ONLY 50 UNITS WERE MADE IN BLACK. Later Orthoplans came in various shades of grey to white. Very rare. A good report on the evolution of Orthoplan is by \"Mike Andre Orthoplan\" ...take a look. We include TWO 12V60W lamps (upper and lower port) plus a factory 12V transformer and two new spare bulbs. (These bulbs are expensive and hard to find these days...Zeiss used the same bulb on some of their microscopes of that era. They are precentered. Lamps have focusing collector lens. Metal dust cap included for covering one lamp port when only a single lamp is connected. You are all set to add Ultropak or any other incident light kit on your own.
Paired GW 10x Leitz eyepieces plus a 1x (Quintuple) revolving nosepiece plus proper finite tube length (170mm) Leitz objectives of the day....rare PL FL(fluorite) 4x, PL FL 10x, PL achromat 25x, PL achromat 40x and 100x PL apochromatic oil.#602 brightfield condenser with correct K4 optic insert for even illumination at low powers. 0.90 achromatic dry top lens in swing-out fixture for use with the 4x.
FSA GW body tube with automatic focus compensation for use with the Orthomat camera. This combination was the worlds first modular widefield (up to 28mm field index) research microscope with a photomultiplier tube light sensor and analog computer for precise exposure control. (Orthomat cameras are easily sourced on but you want to be sure the camera head and control unit have matched production numbers.) The control unit was nearly as big as the Ortholan stand itself. 35mm film only.
This particular model was used by our company for the product launch but later sold to a local pathologist for his private practice. It was later traded in back to our company after this pathologist had retired. Wow, if they only knew what they had here. THIS IS A VERY RARE ITEM AND WILL BE A GREAT ACQUISITION FOR ANY SERIOUS COLLECTOR OF LEITZ MICROSCOPES. Can be used or displayed. Donate to a museum? buntgrp dot com
Includes Leitz promotional ashtray with schematic of Orthoplan. Original (English) 1965 Leitz factory owner\'s manual plus original Leitz (English) \"Optical Instruments for Natural Sciences and Medicine\" that shows the entire line of products of that mid/late 1960\'s era.
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