Tips for Buying a Light Microscope

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Tips for Buying a Light Microscope

#1 Post by RobBerdan » Sat Apr 13, 2019 9:30 pm

Tips for Buying a Light Microscope - Compound, Inverted and Stereoscope and Why you might want to buy a Microscope

I have just posted an article on my web site about Tips for buying a new or used microscope including stereoscopes, compound microscopes and inverted microscopes. I show some specimens that are easy to look at and provide advice based on my 45 years experience working will all kinds of microscopes. I mention the paper folding scopes but I will review them separately in the future. I link to articles that specifically address microscopes for kids, but this is aimed at amateurs and even some more advanced users.

I received input from two other microscopists and a microscope sales person and I hope this article will be of interest to those that might want to buy a new or used scope and discuss some of the pitfalls, brand names etc.

Any comments on how to make it better are appreciated. For those wanting more detail I have linked to numerous videos, web sites and PDFs at the end.

Some photos that are in the article are shown below.

https://www.canadiannaturephotographer. ... scope.html
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Re: Tips for Buying a Light Microscope

#2 Post by billbillt » Tue Apr 16, 2019 2:57 pm

Thanks for posting this very useful info...

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Re: Tips for Buying a Light Microscope

#3 Post by Sauerkraut » Wed Apr 17, 2019 5:16 pm

Thank you for this great reference. It already helped me make a decision on a scope possibility.

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