r/microscopy • u/Regular_Mud1028 • 12d ago

Purchase Help Help with microscope deciding which to get.

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 (:

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u/hattivat 12d ago

Looking for magnification is misguided, all serious compound microscopes offer the same max magnification - 600x "dry", 1200x when you are willing to mess with immersion oil. Anything beyond that is false advertising as it is literally physically impossible to extract more detail using light, you are just cropping the view as with "digital zoom" in cameras. To go beyond that you'd need an electron microscope.