On 03/10/16 17:53,
jaclynmadair@gmail.com wrote:
My boyfriend is an amateur mycologist who vocalized earlier in the year his interest in owning a microscope for the purposes of his studies, mostly for fun. Thinking how great of a Christmas gift this would make - really hoping to get some assistance
as to what type of microscope I should be looking for so I can start to save up for one!
Did some reading that between 500 and 1000x is good, can anyone make affordable yet quality selections?
True - to look at spores, which is often necessary in order to identify
some mushrooms with certainty, you need 1,000 x magnification.
Ideally, you should get a microscope with Kohler illumination, but they
are rather uncheap.
I *might* have a microscope to dispose of (if the antique shop I was
trading it in hasn't sold it). I'll check.
It's a Watson binocular from just after the war. It doesn't have the
lenses for x 1,000, but these are standard, and can be obtained easily. However, it doesn't have Kohler illumination: just a mirror beneath the
table.
Where are you? In UK would be fine, otherwise freight would give you a fright...
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