Just channeling Stephen J Gould: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops"

In our work, we just put the camera directly into the remote refocus volume to detect the oblique plane directly, without the need for a tertiary microscope system!

Oh wild - thanks for sharing, David! Hadn’t thought to check that. Unfortunately it is either the table, or I have precious few (non-)bridging components which are reasonably toleranced. Can see posts tilt when tightening them in some places.