microscopes

Please don't tell me I bought a piece of crap, I'm still riding the wave of excitement. http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B005TJ5CEG?redirect=true&ref_=s9_simh_gw_p21_d0_i3 I'm excited to do some first hand viewing of natural biology and such. I've always wanted one since I was a kid. Got a box...

Hi everyone. This is my first post here at the forums, though I have been around for quite a while lurking and reading. I've learned amazing amounts of random things just by reading threads here, and I thank all of you for that. Anyway, I hope this post is in the correct section and that...

When my father passed away in December, I inherited, among other things, his microscope. Lately, I've been going out and collecting bits of gutter water, moss, lichen, and such; mixing it together, and then looking at random drops of it through this microscope. Just last night, I felt...

I recently bought a wholesale lot that included 3 electron microscopes. Does anyone here know something about them? I know they're older models and supposed to work.

Just bought a new handheld digital microscope and have been playing around with it this morning. Here are a few of my first shots with it: Blue jeans fabric: Jackson's eye on the new twenty: Pixels from my monitor: One pixel from the previous photo: I only have one lens, this...

I'm looking for a simple compound microscope, nothing fancy, and it doesn't need to be up to snuff for emperical research. I simply have an interest in science and want to have one around for fun. It would need to be incredibly inexpensive(I'm a poor student, we're talking under $100) but also...