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Having been socked in by cloud here in Mackay in summer (as most summers are) I though I would get into microscopy as something I could do 24/7. I know you guys are talking about stereo microscopes, I bought a biological microscope, but low power objectives are available for biological microscopes also. This tends to blur the differences between them somewhat.
I bought a 2.5x plan objective for low power observing. With 10x eyepieces the end mag is 25x. 2x objectives are available also. The only thing missing in doing this is a top light source, but something can be rigged up fairly easily.
Mine is of trinocular design, an Omax - one of the cheap Chinese scopes probably the same as Amscope with another label.
If find the mechanical construction to be very good. The objectives are not apo's so like achro refractors there is CA. Apo objectives for microscopes are very expensive!
I also bought some camera adapters for my DSLR and video cameras. In all I've had a lot of fun with it. Definitely worth getting for those rainy nights.
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