I need to buy a fluorescence microscope. What is the best?

olympus BX51, japan make..

agree with Samit :)

Microscopy from Carl Zeiss. Axio Lab.A1

Thank you all...

Which one to buy depends on what you want to do with it...

Beatriz, what exactly are you planning to do with the microscope?

Johannes, we going to buy the Nikon microscope, model: CLI (new) with led light. What do you think?

do you mean the new Ci series? never knew that fluorescence imaging is even possible with that...

correct, this new model is for fluorescence. It was launched late last year!!!

Beatriz, Nikon produces very good (especially inverted) and very expensive microscopes with perfect objectives and not very good mechaniks. Next, Nikon has such disadvantages: poor documentation, complicated pricelists (i.e. lamphouse and lamphouse mirror are different lines of the list) and inconvenient design because the microscopes are designed by 3-4 not connected engeneer groups and noone cares about end-user convenience, and very bad commercial software. As a result, in a couple of years of using Nikon microscope you will become very skilled microscopist (because of lack of support) and may be three-handed (because of paradoxal design). So I prefer Zeiss microscopes, even knowing their objectives are a bit worse

which one is best and which is reasonable among Florescence..

Any of the big four will do, Nikon, Olympus, Zeiss, and Leica, but Dr. Banerjee is correct it is dependent on your application as well.  From a budget point, you will find Olympus to be typically the least expensive and of good quality.  Followed by Nikon and than your European microscopes.  Our company has worked with all of them for providing systems for ratio microscopy and imaging for over 25 years.

I recommend the Nikon Platform. We are being using Nikon for 10 years.

Their support is incredible better than Leica and definitely better than Zeiss.

Nikon have PhD with experience in scientific research and their software is very easy to learn.