Patent ID: 7589839

Claim:
An examination apparatus comprising: a light source for emitting excitation light or illumination light to a specimen placed on a stage; an objective lens opposing the stage and capable of focusing fluorescence or reflected light from the specimen; an image forming lens for forming an image of the specimen obtained by the objective lens; an image-capturing unit for capturing the image of the specimen formed by the image-forming lens; a relay optical system for relaying illumination light for illuminating the specimen; and a reflecting member held by the image-forming lens, the reflecting member being capable of deflecting the illumination light from the light source toward the relay optical system, wherein a plurality of the objective lenses having different magnifying powers is provided, and an objective-lens switching mechanism for switching among the objective lenses is provided, and wherein a plurality of the image-forming lenses having different magnifying powers is provided an image-forming-lens switching mechanism for switching among the image-forming lenses is provided.