Ideal for the typical working laboratory and is built to a high-quality specification. It is robust enough to withstand the rigours of constant daily use and with a quintuple position nose-piece fitted as standard, it is ideally suited for multiple observation techniques and/or magnifications.

• Optical head: trinocular head inclined at 45°, dioptre correction on one eyepiece tube, vertical photo/video port with beam-splitting prism on sliding mount (80 - 20%)
• Eyepieces: 10x/20mm wide field
• Nosepiece: quintuple revolving with click stop
• Objectives: brightfield: 4x, 40x plan-achromatic LWD; phase contrast: 10x, 20x, 40x
• Condenser: NA 0.3, working distance 72mm (removable)
• Stage: 160 x 250mm with built-in mechanical stage and stage side extension
• Focusing: coaxial coarse and fine, pre-focusing mechanism (on left knob), tension adjustment ring (on right knob)
• Illumination: LED, adjustable, with field diaphragm
• Epi-fluorescence module (F17204 only) adds blue excitation (460 - 490nm) and green excitation (480 - 550nm)