Dino-Lite

Dino-Lite in use at a restorer’s studio
The Dino-Lite is in use at many restorer’s studios around Europe.The Dino-Lite is a very useful tool for classifying, documenting and performing restorations on paintings, paper, textiles and other objects of art.For restorer Marjan de Visser, the Dino-Lite is a very helpful tool in her restoration work:

“When restoring a painting, it was unclear whether parts of it were painted over and whether in the past any damage had been done by varnish removal. It was said, that in the past, a friend of the owner did them a favor by cleaning the painting with a strong acid.

Something went wrong with this, and to examine this properly, I inspected the painting with a Dino-Lite digital microscope at 45x magnification. The images measure 9 mm in width:”

“The picture on the left shows old varnish in deeper layers of the paint. The top layer has been cleaned and the varnish suffered from that. The picture on the right shows a paint over.”

A full range of digital microscope models is available to satisfy the different needs of restorers. The range comprises models with a long working distance to enable the user to work under the microscope, and models with an extra high 500x magnification rate to show even the smallest details. There are also several different models with UV or Infrared light to show details that would normally remain hidden.

Click here to download our "cultural heritage" theme brochure with more information and example pictures for conservators.