| Re: microscope
Although much more costly, zoom functions make microscope work much easier. For fungi and plant cells you can get away with a monocular microscope, but the better binocular ones will work equally well with those subjects & have much more scope for other plant & insect identification use.
You do tend to get what you pay for with microscopes-my first one was cheap (about £300 from Brunel) and it felt it, clunky lens changes & really, really dark at high magnification. The ones I use at work are worth £500-600 and are still not perfect-still getting darkish at high mag & a lot of false colouring around the edge of the field of view. The guy down the hall has a top of the range £1100 job which makes microsope work a proper joy-no eye strain, no darkening, true colour across the lens & a really smooth zoom. |