Integrated Illumination

With optical microscopes, the separate illumination makes for a more complicated setup and lesser precision in reproducing the same image. Keep in mind that a small change in illumination makes for a substantial change in the image seen through the microscope.

Not so with the digital microscope! Its integrated illumination means that preliminary setup procedures are virtually eliminated. Plus, you can reproduce the same image over and over again precisely because the illumination basically remains the same.

No Target Disassembly Required

To make setup easier, you don’t have to disassemble – cut up, chop down, process – the target since it can be studied as is, thanks to the portable lens of the microscope. Basically, it’s a point-and-magnify process where you just point the lens towards the target and then magnify it according to your needs. As such, you can make quick analysis of the target!

Finer Depth of Field

Of course, optical microscopes can provide magnifications of 1000 times. However, the depth of field suffers in comparison to a digital microscope by at least 20 times! If you want finer details of the target, you just need to adjust the focus and voila! You have a clearer and deeper picture of the target.

Depth Composition and 3D Display

In addition to depth of field, you are also provided with sharper images of targets. This allows for 3D projections that represent the target conditions at the minutest detail, which is not often possible with an optical microscope limited to 2D images. Think of the detailed studies possible of the subtleties of the target!

Zoom Lens Feature

Unlike an optical microscope with its knobs to increase magnification, a digital microscope has a zoom lens feature that allows for quick and easy magnification. You don’t have to lose sight of the target while searching for the optimal magnification at which you can study it in detail.

All-Angle Study

There are times when you simply must view the target at all angles without losing focus. In digital equipment like the microscope, this is made possible through the 360-degree rotational capabilities of the digital microscope’s camera. Other features like the multi-viewer system and the origin check function, if it’s available, also provide for said versatility. Easy Share in Real Time

In an optical microscope, everybody has to take turns peering at the eyepiece just to get a similar view of the target, which is time-consuming, to say the least. With the digital type, the image of the target can be projected on a bigger screen and, hence, many people can see the same image at once. This is a great tool in a class setting.

Easy Save

Unlike an optical microscope where the process of saving the images can be complex – from microscope to media to computer – its digital counterpart allows for direct saving on its onboard hard disk drive. And the best thing is that you can organize the images directly on the microscope!

So, with all these benefits of a digital microscope, isn’t it about time that you get one fro yourself?

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What you’ve probably seen is one of those student’s microscopes. It is a low power optical microscope that has been marketed specifically for non-scientists – that is, to be used by students in primary and secondary school.

As mentioned, the student microscope is an optical microscope – the type that uses a system of lenses and visible light in seeing through images. This is the oldest and the simplest kind of microscope in that this still uses eye-pieces for an observer to have a glimpse of the magnified images.

On the other hand, there’s the digital microscope. It the more modern type, and more often, it does not use eye-pieces. In lieu of the eye-piece, it uses a camera and its output is a digital image projected in a computer monitor.

Using a Digital Microscope

So, how do you use a digital microscope then given that you cannot look through an eye-piece to observe a sample? Simple, think robots.

If you want to clearly see the micro-printing in a dollar bill, for example, just place the bill right below the camera of your digital microscope. The images will then be projected in your computer monitor.

But before you discover the secrets of the dollar bill, you must first install the software of your digital microscope into your computer. Your microscope package should include an installation CD, otherwise, you might be getting a fraudulent microscope.

After you’ve successfully done this, connect your digital microscope and your computer using USB cables. Find the appropriate port. You don’t have to be a computer engineer to know this. The secret to this technical task is in finding the port that fits with your cable. If it does not fit, it is not supposed to be plugged there.

When you’ve connected the correct cables and you see that such a connection is working (i.e. when you move your camera, the image on the monitor also changes), you can now get your dollar bill for scrutiny.

Adjust some knobs in your precious digital microscope until the image in your monitor becomes clear. After which, you can now start doing your digital scrutiny of the dollar bill. You can even save a captured image and do some work on it – label it, make some notes about it, or put a comment on it.

Indeed, by using a digital microscope, you are finding better answers to your questions about the world around you. You are discovering more things.

Gone are the days when you have to prick your finger, get a sample of your own blood, put it in a microscope slide and use a student microscope to observe the discs and color of your blood. Today, you have other kinds such as the digital microscope, the research microscope, and an improved version of the compound microscope.

Science indeed has transformed itself to provide us with better answers. It has even made its gadgets better to provide you with the needed tools to satisfy a more curious you.

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