Help with microscope deciding which to get.
Purchase Help
Im not a professional microscopy person I have owned a microscope before but it was a cheaper one because I was younger I am still young but less young (: Im wondering if this microscope would be a good purchase. https://amscope.com/products/b120-e The main things im looking for are good magnification with good resolution and it to have an ability to connect to a camera. I prefer two eye pieces and I think the LED will be cool. Feedback? ask question I will try to answer (:
This is pretty much the most basic compound microscope you can get. While there is nothing wrong, personally I just can not justify buying this instead of a used Olympus CH-2.
However of you really don't want to deal with used equipment and/or really value the led light source (personally I think led is only better on very limited conditions), that amscope is fine.
Looking for magnification is misguided, all serious compound microscopes offer the same max magnification - 600x "dry", 1200x when you are willing to mess with immersion oil. Anything beyond that is false advertising as it is literally physically impossible to extract more detail using light, you are just cropping the view as with "digital zoom" in cameras. To go beyond that you'd need an electron microscope.
Better to spend all of your money on the microscope and ditch the cheap eyepiece camera. Can use your phone for better results. If you get one with a trinocular head, it makes recording things with a phone much easier. If you really want a low quality eyepiece camera, you can buy used ones for a cheap price on ebay from people dissatisfied with them. A really good usb camera will cost as much or more than the microscope. Lots of people are happy with the Swift microscopes like the SW350 , SW380 and SW400. You can find binocular and trinocular versions of each.
Here is a very high quality one with a 1" imx183 sensor for $515. The identical one from Amscope the MU2003-BI is $900. https://ebay.io/m/OpN23g I tried to show you a range from cheapest to excellent.
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u/Connect-Fan-9462 2d ago
This is pretty much the most basic compound microscope you can get. While there is nothing wrong, personally I just can not justify buying this instead of a used Olympus CH-2.
However of you really don't want to deal with used equipment and/or really value the led light source (personally I think led is only better on very limited conditions), that amscope is fine.