Axio Observer boosts high-end materials microscopy by unprecedented optical performance. With extremely low light scattering and surprisingly high contrast, it provides distinctly more information content with the high quality images it generates. Carl Zeiss has redesigned and optimized the entire optics of Axio Observer. The beam path has been apochromatically corrected so it brings out the full power of the Carl Zeiss objectives adding brilliant quality to all contrasting methods.