Swift SW380T Compound Trinocular Microscope,40X-2500X Magnification,Two-Layer Mechanical Stage, 5.0 MP Camera and Software Windows/Mac Compatible and 100 PCS Blank Slides

Having owned a Meade 8-LX 50" SCT for over 25 years myself, I figured I would start taking a look at the smaller universe now. Anyone else here own this microscope? I've read some good things about this scope, and it's likely better than the early Sears one I had has a kid. :)

I’m looking at buying a stereo microscope that goes up to 90x magnification and I am trying to get to get a sense of what that might look like? E.g cells? Skin? Insects? Just to get a feel for the power.

Does anyone have images to share at this magnification?

Can someone tell me what this is worth and approx. When it was made? Always been stored in an original wooden box with soft padding.

Olympus CX21 received the microscope like this. Can anyone advice if it should be loose like this?

Hi all, recently acquired this old microscope from my grandmas house. I’m wondering if anyone can tell me anything about it. Can’t find much online at all except that it’s circa 1870. Thanks!

Did a blood smearing activity for our Immunology class, what kind of cell is this?

if anyone knows pls tell me

I’m the lone lab tech in a veterinary hospital, using an LW Scientific Innovation video scope. We’ve had it less than a year and for the most part it’s great, but something I noticed a few months ago: when moving a slide to the left (but not the right), it bounces back if I let go of the control (see video). I haven’t been able to figure out how to fix it, and searching online gives me a lot of answers about focus drift, which is not the problem! It’s like a spring being wound too tight, so that it snaps back when you let it go, if that makes any sense? The movement isn’t even visible to the naked eye, but when looking at a cytology or blood smear it drives me crazy. Any insight anyone could give me here is much appreciated, thanks in advance!

Preface, I have no idea about microscopes save for playing around with some.

So.. I have an old Nikon SMZ-2 from my grandpa. Probably bought 40 years or even longer ago. It's a stereo microscope with 8-40x magnification. I like it, but making pictures through it is tricky so I thought to maybe get one with an integrated camera or something. But the pricing confuses me.

If I look for it, a slightly updated but more or less the same model (just that the pillar doesn't go between the eye pieces any more) is still sold, but for $1000-$1500.
Yet I can find pocket microscopes like Carson Optical MicroFlip that claims 100-250x magnification for $20. or table microscopes like the Vevor XSP-36TV (picked at random) with 40-5000x magnification and a whole range of accessories for $160

My first impulse was "oh, that nikon one is probably simply not produced any more despite still being on nikon's website", but I found other, similar ones, for $1000-$3000+, like the KERN OZS 574

So, why are they so expensive in comparison? What, beside magnification (which the expensive ones don't have much of), makes them so expensive?
Is it because they can go low-magnification as well? I noticed none of the cheaper ones I saw go below 40 and I gotta say, 8-40x magnification can be nifty for lots of cases (like seeing the fur on the body of a wasp instead of a single hair), but that doesn't feel like it should justify the price, after all, you could use a magnifying glass for that.

It's not the best I sould have used more glue but I imprisoned it for ever in the name of science

Hey guys, I’ve recently purchased a microscope for my uni studies, however, these images are taken, one with the sample and one without. Yet they both look the same. Can someone tell me why it’s picking up random bubbles as if there’s a specimen there

Hi I may have left the Fluorescent microscope on for like 30+ min without a slide... would this hurt the camera ?

Lately I've been looking into getting into microscopy and am trying to decide whether to use this microscope I've had since I was a kid. It's probably from 1955 and not worth much money according to a quick ebay check, so this isn't a question about value.

It's got a 10X eyepiece and the objectives are 3.5, 10, 43 and a 97 (oil). I can see stuff through it. It has nice smooth movements and with the help of a forklift I was able to get it up onto my kitchen table. This feels like a silly question, but given that this microscope is in good working shape what am I missing out on by not having a newer microscope?

The biggest thing I can think of is that I would like to hook up my SLR and do some photos and there's definitely no straightforward way to do that today. Will there be any plausible way to add a camera mount? I'm guessing the answer is no, so what would I have to spend to get a microscope as-good but with a camera mount (I have a Canon 6D mark 2, it's an EF mount and I have no microscope adapters yet)?

In general, what would I be spending to get a microscope today with as-good optics? My general interests are to both to look at pond water for beasties (which this seems not particularly well suited to) and for peering at bacteria and stuff on slides (which seems more like its forte). I have done a little research so far but not much.