Olympus OM system close-up and macro equipment

The Olympus OM system was in production for such a long time (1972–2003) that it was used with at least 4 generations of Olympus compound microscopes: EH/FH, BH, BH-2 and BX. It is not easy to obtain information about discontinued Olympus microscopes, so I have collected all of the catalogues and instruction manuals that I can find for the compound and stereo microscopes that are most likely to be used with Olympus OM cameras, and made them available here for downloading.

	Description	Date	Size
BH-2 compound microscopes
	Olympus BH-2 BHS/BHT System Microscopes catalogue	December 1990	5.41 MB
	Olympus BH-2 BHS System Microscope instruction manual	May 1990	744 KB
	Olympus BH-2 BHT System Microscope instruction manual	July 1986	1.31 MB
	Olympus BH-2 BHTP Polarizing Microscope instruction manual		8.12 MB
	Olympus BH-2 BHSP Polarizing Microscope instruction manual		903 KB
	Olympus LB Objective Series for Biological Use	June 1992	4.28 MB
	Olympus BHM Series Metallurgical Microscopes catalogue	December 1982	8.90 MB
BH compound microscopes
	Olympus BH BHA-P Polarizing Microscope instruction manual		1.67 MB
	Olympus High Quality Optics catalogue	May 1982	2.78 MB
EH/FH research microscopes
	Olympus EHT & FHT Research Microscopes instruction manual	May 1974	3.24 MB
Stereo microscopes
	Olympus SZ Series Zoom Stereo Microscopes catalogue	September 1997	5.60 MB
	Olympus SZ3060, SZ4045, SZ4060, SZ6045, SZ1145 Zoom Stereo Microscope instructions		3.05 MB
	Olympus SZH10 Zoom Stereo Microscope System catalogue	February 1996	5.37 MB
Bulbs and lamps
	Olympus Replacement Bulb List	2004	288 KB
Miscellaneous
	Olympus Photomicrographic Systems catalogue	April 1987	2.53 MB
	How to improve photography through the microscope	December 1984	15.56 MB

Instruction manuals for current Olympus microscopes

Manuals for BX and other current Olympus microscopes and accessories can be downloaded here:

• Olympus Manuals

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