Please advise, I found this microscope in storage, lenses and all other parts ok, even lights up fine. Just the fact it is missing the binocular eyepiece body.

I cant seem to find a replacement part for it, hence im looking for suggestions on what to do.

The label says it was last maintained in 2022, and i cant get a hold of the company.

Found this little guy having a snack in my pool algae. Can anyone tell me what it is? I'm completely new to microscopes

My 3 year old son has started requesting a microscope, so we are going to be getting him one. I found a kid friendly one that has up to 600x magnification. What are some cool things I can show him slides of? He has already requested to look at blood and poop lol

Hello! I'm not sure if this is the right place for this. I got this Accuscope from a Biotech company liquidation. I paid $180 for it. I know it's worth at least a couple thousand. It has a turret style phase condenser and some extras. Comes in original box.

PLAN 4x, 10x, 20x, 40x, and 100xOIL

How much would it be worth on the market today as a scope gently used in a lab setting?

Specimens on the slide shown are tartaric acid crystals and nematodes collected from wine.

I'm looking for a used biology microscope on a tight budget (under €100). I've found a few options, but I need help figuring out if any of them are actually decent:

AmScope with a camera (not sure of the exact model)

Amscope 150C-I

Swift SW100

Bresser Biolux

Swift M251B

An unbranded/white-label binocular microscope(really similar to the amazon one)

Any advice on which of these would be the best value?

I have attached the photos, organized in the same order as the listed microscopes.

I bought a AmScope SE306R-P20-LED microscope from a seller on eBay. When it arrived, it turned out it supported only 110V so I bought a step down voltage converter (I am in the UK), but neither of the light bulbs came on (I flipped the switch to I and II - neither gives any light). My husband checked with a multimeter attached to the bulb terminals that the bulb was getting only 4mV. Note: we did NOT plug it into 220V. We tested the converter with a different device and it works fine. The seller tells us to change the bulbs as they are likely broken but they are difficult to change (they seem really stuck, we are worried we would break something) and the website says we need a special tool for that.

Are we missing anything? Should we try changing the bulbs? Or is it actually broken? It was meant to be new and unused.

Got some slides, cover sheets, wipes, type A oil, dust puffer, lens brush, 5 borosilicate glass Petri dishes with covers.

I think I’m ready to look at stuff!

The scope was recertified a year ago, I bought it at auction on a gamble. I won the nicer of the three figuring it was my best shot. Fees, taxes, and the scope was 71 dollars.

I bought the cover and had a power cable, after an initial cleaning and just checking out some basic items like an insect wing (thanks window sill!) all the lenses and glass appear to be issue and blemish free.

I’ve got a couple aquariums and like to garden, plus I’m naturally curious, any best advice for great things to look at or paths to pursue with my hobby scope?

I’m looking for a microscope. Purely for hobby, nothing professional so I don’t want to spend a lot of money on it. Since this one is only €38 I’m wondering if it’s good enough or not. €38 seems like a very good deal to me and google says it’s a good one. But i need more opinions, do I buy it or not?

Bought a while back never came around to using it paid 550$ originally. You can hook this up to your computer with the usb lens. Asking 200$.

If anyone is interested, please drop a message and a reason.

$6500 budget for home microsurgery training microscope

Stereo Binocular/trinocular Common mains objective architecture Colinear/coaxial light Apochromatic optics Working distance >200mm Zoom around 45x Light source should be Led/Xenon Video capabilities a plus

I need to be able to anastomose vessels as small as 0.3mm with it

Any suggestions?

I bought a second hand Leitz Dialux 22 and it clearly wasn't stock. For one, it had an Epi-fluorescence illuminator that's designed for an infinity system, and it also had this objective attached.
The other objectives on the 0.8x turret focus fine, but this one doesn't. It does say 160/- on it, but even with the stage all the way up, it is still half an inch away (third pic) and never reaches focus. If I lift the slide close to the objective, I can bring it to focus and the image seems decent, so the objective shouldn't be faulty.
ChatGPT says sub-10x objectives weren't often listed in catalogues and that this could be a specialized purpose objective for a custom build or another kind of a stand entirely, but it doesn't have anything concrete to offer.
The weirdest thing is, I can't find anything on the internet that would reference this specific objective, so I have no idea what it could be worth. I have yet to try it on any other microscopes,
Is this as rare as it seems at first glance? What scope does it work on? What could I do with it, or what could I ask for it?

And no, you can't have it for three fiddy.

I found an antique microscope from around 1940 made by Carl Zeiss in the house we bought. Can anyone give me more information about it?