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Locating your Specimen
- Click the "Locate" tab and expand the "Microscope Control" drop-down menu
- Select the objective lens you'd like to use - either via the menu in locate', or via the touchscreen controller next to the screen.
- Select a suitable fluorescence filter. Only the first three should be used; the rest are special positions fof the confocal and multiphoton
- Put your specimen on the microscope and open either the transmitted light shutter or the fluorescence shutter depending on which mode you want to use to find your sample
- Turn on the lamp by clicking its icon and pressing the On button
- Open the fluorescence shutter to let light through
- When your specimen is in focus, close the shutter and click the "Acquisition" tab.