Darklight Posted July 4, 2019 Niggles and I have been looking at microscopy, learning more about it. Um, there's a lot more to it than we thought... What's become obvious early on in the piece is that my cheapo $50 ebay scope isn't up to the job of looking at stomates and spores. It's not just the magnification, it's the crap optics. Need a compound scope with illumination, pref LED. Pref with coarse and fine focusing. Magnification to 1000x or more if there's an immersion lens involved ( never used one, no idea how that works ). I wanna see stomates, chromosomes, spores. Good optics are essential. We'll be attaching a camera to it too. Zeiss. Leica or Olympus lens or similar quality. If you have a good compound scope at home just sitting round and you'd love to see it get used regularly, gimme a hoi and we'll find a suitable trade for you. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Darklight Posted August 13, 2019 Sorted. Got a cheapo old Olympus compound offa ebay and retrofitted it with a 5MP camera and a variable + rechargeable LED light. The optics are f*n brilliant. They don't make glass like they used to 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites