SOPTOP SZN71

A SOPTOP SZN71 trinocular stereo zoom microscope on a pillar stand — the white-bodied optical head stamped SZN71, with a third vertical port on top for a camera. A stereo microscope has two separate optical paths, which is what produces real depth perception. That is the whole reason board work needs one: you are judging how far an iron tip is above a pad, and a single flat magnified image cannot tell you that. Trinocular means the camera port is separate from the two eyepieces, so a camera can stay mounted permanently without taking an eyepiece out of service. You solder down the eyepieces for the depth perception and use the monitor for inspection, documenting a board before you touch it, or showing a customer what is actually wrong. This is the top of the three microscopes we stock, and on a microscope the money goes into glass. Better-corrected optics show less colour fringing at the edge of the field and hold focus across the whole view rather than just the centre — which is what you notice after an hour at the bench, not in the first minute.