Artcameraman Loc: Springfield NH

Doing some macro photo in 10X. Need a microscope lens old better the whole rig that someone else has and is retireing.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Perhaps this will be of help, Nikon made a thread adaptor that allowed standard microscope lenses to be screwed into a thread mount, the other end of the threaded mount was Leica size thread mount, size of 39.5 mm. This allows you to mount any microscope lens to the Leica size adaptor to a bellows to do what you are doing. The original mounting device was made by E. Leitz and will accept the two specialty macro lenses of smaller thread size still made by Zeiss that Nikon copied. The Zeiss macro lenses (four total) are for Macro work. The Nikon lenses are reasonably priced, the Zeiss 10MM Macro lens is around $9,000 each and are vastly superior to the Nikon lens. I worked with these lenses at MD Anderson with the Zeiss Ulta-phot unit (looked like a huge microscope but in fact was more like a medium, sized 'Desk').

Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI

This does not need to break the bank! Far from it. Get thee to the True Macro forum here in UHH, and ask there. Sippyjug is especially knowledgeable.
I don't know if you intend to use a regular microscope, with camera attached, or to adapt an objective lens directly to your camera. But the people at the True Macro site will sort this out.

Artcameraman Loc: Springfield NH

Thanks for the info.

BBurns Loc: South Bay, California

Mark, Search for "old microscope objective" on eBay. Lots of hits.

petrochemist Loc: UK

There are quite a range of microscope objective mounts, the easiest to adapt to cameras are RMS ones (Royal Microscope Society).
Some are finite designs & others infinite, one type needs a relay lens together with the objective, the other doesn't (I can't remember reliably which way round they are). http://www.extreme-macro.co.uk/microscope-objectives/ should give you some good advice :)

Artcameraman Loc: Springfield NH

Thanks.