Microscopes are the heart of our business. Our microscopes feature the perfect balance of performance, reliability and economy. We know what you want from a microscope because we have been making and selling them for over 80 years!

Our range of instruments include microscopes suitable for a huge range of applications from dissection through to petrography.

Prior Automated Microscopes A range of Prior microscopes with automated stages and focus supplied with a camera and software to provide a ideal entry level workstation for many applications.

PriorLab The PriorLab microscope is a popular instrument for teaching and routine applications in transmitted light. Offering full control of Köhler illumination and high quality optics the images produced by this instrument are equal to microscopes from a significantly higher price bracket.

PriorLux The PriorLux is our most flexible range of microscopes. We offer the standard PriorLux with infinity corrected optics for transmitted light applications. The PriorLuxMET also features infinity corrected optics but these are corrected for use in reflected light applications such as metallurgy. Finally for highly demanding polarising microscopy we supply the PriorLuxPOL which features infinity corrected, strain free optics along with all the accessories that you would expect with an instrument of this quality.

We also sell a range of Stereo Microscopes for dissection, viewing and imaging larger objects. This range includes the StereoMaster 3 which has three fixed magnifications and integral illumination, the ZoomMaster 40 and the ZoomMaster 65 high quality zoom stereos with 4:1 and 6.5:1 zoom ratios respectively.