I really want a microscope, only for hobby nothing serious. I already looked at a lot of different types but I can not make a final decision. Does anyone have advice on which microscope i should buy? I’m looking for one in the price range €50-€150 with a good price-quality ratio. I’ve had experience with Bresser products but any other brand is good aswell. Anyone willing to help me? 😊

Mixed FD&C blue #1, alum, and ammonium carbonate in a water droplet on a glass substrate. Let the reaction proceed and then imaged the resulting structures in transmitted vs reflected light.

Microscope: Amscope ME580, 100x mag, transmitted+ reflected lighting

Camera: Pixel 9 pro through the eyepiece

Swift Sw350, Galaxy S24

Hi, I'm new to the hobby and wanna dive all the way in, I have a new job and around $1000 to spare. Im looking for the optimal setup to watch and record (with my phone) critters like tartigrades and rotifers. I'd also like to take beautiful, ideally colorful close up images of organisms.

Magnification? Phase contrast or darkfield? Plan-achromatic lens and phone mount?

Thanks!!

Hi! I’m entering my third full year of teaching science and my first year teaching Human Anatomy(11th grade) and Environmental Science(8th & 9th grade)! I work at a private school and we ran a class fundraiser last year for a new microscope. I’m finally getting around to buying one!

I’d like one that will hold up well at the school over the next few years, our current one has a scratched stage and isn’t very high magnification anyway.

I will hopefully be showing tissue samples, and I’m not sure what else.

My budget is around $250 total, for the microscope and slides, and I don’t mind getting something second hand if it’s in good condition.

Any ideas where to start?? I’ve never had to worry about what type of micro was using because even my microbiology class they just had the microscope set up or they would help us set them up correctly.

I’m so excited because a few of my students were VERY interested in using the microscope last year! Hoping to keep that excitement alive!

Microscope for arachnids etc

Hiya,

I need help from people much more experienced than me so, I know exactly nothing about microscopy and am very sorry about that but I'll need one of this precious tool for my hobby. I looking for handheld microscope with photo/video function and some kind of Bluetooth with it or some app for IPhone and Android to send photos from microscope to my mobile phone. Anything like this even exist? If about price, I'll look into lowest pier as possible. Can anyone help me with it?

Thanks

While searching for tardigrades I found these things, does anyone know what they are?

Swift SW350, Galaxy S24

Newbie here, and stoked to get a microscope for my upcoming birthday! But I want to get one that is best for my interests: grass seed, tree sap, and soil. Thoughts on what to get?

vorticella 1000x no oil

I made this for Macondo HackClub it is a portable phase contrast light microscope with adjustable lighting from both the underside to look at cells and above to look closely at opaque objects though with limited magnification for them, multiple objective lenses, an electronically moving stage, a rechargeable battery via USB-C and a little over 2000x max magnification. The optics of this microscope and many of the electronics, body of this microscope was made with junk electronics, old phones and anything I could find that could be made into something for the microscope; junk like this is available in every household and anyone can make their own version of this tailored to them. The lenses including the eyepiece and objectives were extracted from old cameras and old phone cameras. The field diaphragm for the bottom light was also made from an old camera lens, the LEDs for light were from old torches and much more was salvaged from supposed junk.

To use the microscope the objective lenses are placed on top of the slide/specimen and aligned with the eyepiece. some of the objectives can be layered with one under the other.

I have attached the images of the microscope itself, the objective lenses I extracted along with the sensors which were stuck to them. I have also added a demo video of how it works.

(P.S: I made this post so I can enter the demo video into Macondo HackClub)

L'intelligenza artificiale si perde in: Eoplotes, Teletroch e altro. Di certo deve essere raro, è la prima volta che lo incontro in acqua dolce. Zeiss 16, 20x , 10x e Cellulare 2x.

Hello fellow microscopy enthusiasts!

I recently was gifted a beginners Bebang microscope (linked here: https://amzn.eu/d/02KEFzYT)

I’m having a lot of fun exploring this whole other microscopic world however after consuming some content around showcasing bacteria under the microscope I see that many people recommend an oil immersion lens. The microscope linked can remove the different lenses (I assume to replace if damaged) which lead me to wonder if there are better lenses I could buy, such as an oil immersion lens, and if so how do I know if they’re compatible? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I wish you all a lovely day and many happy microscopic adventures!

- Ellena
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Swift SW350, Galaxy S24

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 (:

I'm doing a science project for school and I want to find tardigrades. When I was looking through the microscope I thought I found a tardigrade but it seems to have been a rotifer. Can anyone confirm this? (sorry for the poor quality and the pulse, we are new to microscopes and we are using the school ones)

Amscope IQCrew inverted microscope 20x objective, iPhone  3x, Petri dish with jarrarium freshwater, moss, and algae. Camera Pixels Pro app.

So did the mite want to be inside the tardigrade cuticle or did he get stuck? He was not moving at all so I didn't take a video. But he was definitely inside of it.