Adapting the SFA to Amscope Stereo Microscopes

The standard adapter ring supplied with our Stereo Microscope Fluorescence Adapter is the one piece of the system that directly attaches to your microscope. It serves as the means for mounting our modular barrier filters and filter shields. The ring attaches at the bottom of the objective housing with thumbscrews and is nearly universal. But many of the stereo microscopes in the Amscope line have a tapered section at the bottom of the objectives, as in the example below. This taper is not a good surface for mounting our adapter ring. Fortunately, Amscope offers their own inexpensive ring light adapters that screw into the bottom of that taper and provide a suitable cylindrical surface for attaching our standard adapter.