Myka
Valuable Member
I own an aquarium service company, and I'm looking for a good quality portable microscope. I have an older small USB microscope that takes photos (and video) up to 250x, 1080p, and 1.69 MB which works fine to loosely identify various things, but the optics just aren't good enough for a professional. I'd like to be able to magnify larger so I can more easily identify different dino species and I will also use it for fish skin scrapings so it needs to have a lower magnification too.
The microscope needs to be able to connect with my phone (Android) or my mini 10" laptop (running Windows 10), and by portable I mean something pretty small, not much bigger than my laptop case. I'll pay what it costs, but let's not get crazy - if there's a 9/10 one for $600 and a 10/10 for $1200, I'm going for the $600 unless that 1/10 is REALLY important. Ha!
Any suggestions?
Is something like this any good? I feel for CAD$600 there would be better options? Especially when I see others that seem to have the same resolution for $32. Hmmm.
The microscope needs to be able to connect with my phone (Android) or my mini 10" laptop (running Windows 10), and by portable I mean something pretty small, not much bigger than my laptop case. I'll pay what it costs, but let's not get crazy - if there's a 9/10 one for $600 and a 10/10 for $1200, I'm going for the $600 unless that 1/10 is REALLY important. Ha!
Any suggestions?
Is something like this any good? I feel for CAD$600 there would be better options? Especially when I see others that seem to have the same resolution for $32. Hmmm.
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