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Old 07-03-2008, 02:23 PM
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They use all sorts of bits to get higher and lower magnification. They often use barlows and powermates to increase the magnification and focal reducers to get wider fields of view with the corresponding lower magnification.

Of course the final image can be scaled by software as well BUT to get the detail you need the raw data from the initial images, hence the hardware used.
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