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What are digital microscopes?
The Digital microscope is the newest innovation of microscopy that uses a digital camera in imaging. It utilizes USB technology to produce live image viewable on a computer monitor.
It makes use of an inverted lens design so specimens of variable sizes and shapes can be viewed with little or no preparation and a rotatable lamp that enables the illumination of opaque specimens by reflected light.
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The eyepiece or ocular is where an image is viewed when it is placed on a microscope. There are two types of oculars, the monocular and the binocular.
Monocular microscopes have only
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A microscope magnification shows how many times an object is magnified by the lenses of the microscope. A High Power Microscope has three or four distinct magnifications, they are the following:
• 40x
• 100x
• 400x
• 1000x
The
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Generally, you will need all the components of a microscope but you can do away with a few or one component given that will not affect the result of a particular examination.
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