Justin,

There is a microscope supplier in Melbourne who sells mainly into 
schools. The company don't advertise this side of their business but 
might be worth finding out who might be their retail agent (

I worked as a Service/Support  technician for a lab/histopathology 
diagnostics equipment agent. We seriously thought about using this 
range instead of selling the introductory level Leica products. Would 
not be good for fluorescence work - but then you're not intending to 
get a bucketful of Zebra fish and splice drugs into them and 
photograph reactions or are you? :)

The 'scopes are made in China rather than Germany one reason for the 
cheap price.  I think the Aus agent was www.andmercury.com.au the 
website will only show electronic scales. It might also be worth 
asking your local secondary school - as this company was selling them 
by the bucket load to schools in Melbourne and Queensland.

One thing to practice with in using a microscope properly is setting 
the Par-Focal correctly - even many lab technicians don't do this, nor 
did I until I found out how useful it is.

Colin
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