Welcome to Darkfield Compound Microscopes website store where you have came to the right place for darkfield microscopy. The main use for these types of microscopes is for live blood cell analysis. A drop of live blood is put on a blank microscope slide and viewed using a compound light microscope with a darkfield condenser.

The darkfield condenser gives the effect of brightly illuminated inclusions in the blood under a black background. The darkfield microscopy technique is achieved by illuminating the biological specimen from the side instead of from below like is used in normal brightfield microscopy. If a drop of unstained live blood is examined with normal transmitted light in brightfield, much of the inclusions in the blood will be translucent and not be visible. If a drop of microscope stain is put on the live blood, it will affect the natural biological processes taking place inside the live blood.

The idea of using darkfield is the clinical technician wants to view the blood in its natural state, unstained, and without chemicals added. Darkfield microscopy gives this capability. The use of a darkfield compound microscope has the added benefit of being able to see things in the blood that would also be invisible using phase contrast microscopy. Natural health practitioners use live blood cell analysis in their examination of the overall health of a patient. If you have an interest in obtaining a darkfield compound light microscope for live blood cell analysis, please contact us for a recommendation on the best equipment to use.