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On another matter - you may also want to look into getting a 20x objective - it is quite useful as it straddles the 10x and 40x nicely. The nice thing about the 1600x option here is it comes with a 10x and an additional 16x eyepiece , so I get to fill in a lot of the objective zooms with +60% zooms...

I'm getting ready to purchase. Thank you for the additional ideas. I have made my semi-final decision then. If anyone has any reason I should not buy this scope, speak now or forever hold your eyepiece. AmScope T340A-DK-LED - $315 http://www.amscope.com/compound-microscopes/40x-1600x-3w-led-siedento...

Anything over 1000x (100x objective and 10x eyepiece) with few exceptions, strays into Empty Magnification. 1600x, 2000x and 2500x are sales gimmicks - which should tell you all you need to know about a manufacturer, shop or salesman. Thanks. I do hope you are not thinking about getting involved in...

I like the softcover Free-Living Freshwater Protozoa, A Colour Guide, by Patterson. Oh thanks, that looks great for protozoa. Anything for protophyta or multicellular creatures? Anything not only specific to freshwater? I expect to be looking at soil and other terrestrial subjects. My own research ...

Forget 2000x and especially 2500x, you should also forget 1600x as well. For practical purposes 1000x is max magnification. Why is that? Is that true for all scopes, or just the two series I mentioned, the 120s and 490s? Will the 490 series have better resolution/focus/clarity at higher magnificati...

I am a newcomer to microscopes, other than that I've been using a 10x Belomo loupe for a couple years to explore the smaller things. I am looking for a good starter microscope for the following: exploring the natural world, things like pond water, soil, tissues, whatever catches my fancy examining r...