Patent ID: 8120649

Claim:
A microscope system comprising: a microscope body including an optical element which is selectively mounted and which attributes to a setup of an observation condition; a first noncontact type storage medium which is provided to the optical element, and which stores information related to the optical element, wherein a noncontact readout of information from the first noncontact type storage medium is performed from outside of the optical element; a first readout unit which reads the information non-contactingly from the first noncontact type storage medium; a display unit which displays the information related to the optical element read by the first readout unit; an image pickup unit which picks up an image via the optical element; and a photography information obtainment unit which obtains photography information including setup information of the image pickup unit at a time of picking up the image; wherein the display unit further displays the image picked up by the image pickup unit and information which is read by the first readout unit and which is related to the selectively mounted optical element at a time of picking up the image.