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I bought my Nikon on ebay, Ithink it was around $200
The important thing is also, what kind of objects you will be looking at?
Stereo microscopes are (usually) used for inspection and manipulation of non-transparent objects. and the illumination comes from above or from one side. Some systems will work even with ambient light, but the moderate intensity light source is recommended.
High power microscopes are usually used with transparent objects (bio material on glass substrate for example) and this requires a lot of preparation.
The illumination comes from below (towards the objective) and it needs to be much more intense (focussed from small halogen lamp).
Those two are completely different designs...
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