| Alan Rockefeller |
| (Mycologist) |
| 05/09/08 08:10 PM |
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Re: My new microscope.
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That is the exact same scope I have, except that mine is the trinocular model with a camera on the third eye.
I like it a lot and would recommend it to others.
You can still take pics by holding up a camera to the eyepiece.
GGreatone234 also has the same scope.
Don't make the same mistake as everyone else does and use the included mountant (smells like pine trees) as immersion oil. The stuff they include with a scope is for putting under the slide, not on top!
Get some slides and immersion oil and maybe a stain while you are waiting for it to come in the mail.
Also get this book: http://www.amazon.com/How-Identi
It is like a manual for your scope that is focused on how to use it to view fungi.
Also there is a lot of good information in this thread:
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/