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Quality Microscope
    #5052604 - 12/12/05 02:19 PM (18 years, 5 months ago)

Does anybody have/know of a QUALITY, but RELATIVELY cheap microscope capable of viewing spores?

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Re: Quality Microscope [Re: hills]
    #5052836 - 12/12/05 02:58 PM (18 years, 5 months ago)

X400 is the minimum suggested if that helps.


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Re: Quality Microscope [Re: hills]
    #5055529 - 12/12/05 11:42 PM (18 years, 5 months ago)

There is a lot to a good microscope, and if you have a really good one, you certainly don't need 400X to see spores in very high detail. Magnification is EASY but resolution is expensive. Hell, you can buy a $10 microscope used that has 500X magnification, but you won't see shit for detail.

Last year I bought a professional compound microscope from "precision*world" on Ebay. For about $250 I got a new unit that can, with the 100X oil objective, go up to 1600X. The quality of this unit was ASTOUNDING for the money. I still have trouble believing what I got for the money, but as hard as it is to believe, they aren't hot.

The unit came with four objectives - 4X, 10X, 40X (spring), 100X (spring, oil) and two eye pieces 10X and 16X (you multiply to two together to know the magnification). I never use the 100X oil objective because messing with oil is annoying, but I don't have to with spores. I often use only 10X objective times 16X (160X total) because it is easier to deal with in terms of focus and has a relatively high distance from the point of focus. A 40X, in comparison to the 10X objective, has to be really close, like closer than the width of test tube glass which I often look through. So, using the 10X objective and 16X eyepiece, I get 160X but can CLEARLY see the spores at that magnification including awesome detail.

If you think of a microscope as a long-term investment, you shouldn't skimp on it. I really enjoy mine. It's nice to pop a drop of LC on a slide, put a slide cover over the drop, and actually see the mycelium or bacteria wiggling around at 640X. It's just cool and a lot of peace of mind to know what you are dealing with using one's sense of vision rather than smell.

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Re: Quality Microscope [Re: Blue Helix]
    #5075445 - 12/17/05 02:02 PM (18 years, 5 months ago)

excellent response. thank you very much.


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