The USB Digital Microscope allows you to capture images in high quality and very close up. With it being USB, it connects to your PC and then shows the images on screen. The software which comes supplied with the USB Microscope allows you to zoom in up to 200X and create screen shots of those objects. As well as taking still pictures, you can also use time lapse movies for items that change over time. The Microscope part is detachable from its stand which allows you to get up close to items.
Costing $199 from Think Geek you get what seems to be a fairly decent microscope with the added bonus of being able to store images captured on your PC.
* Great for industrial inspection, science education, forensics, printing, textile, printed circuit board (PCB) inspection, jewelers, hobbyists
* Capture high quality images, video and time-lapsed video [sample images]
* Resolution: 640 x 480 pixels for image capture
* Magnification: 20x, 50x, 200x – without switching lenses
* Built-in white-light 4 LEDs for illumination
* Frame rate: up to 30fps
* Interface: USB 1.1
* Dimension: 10cm (h) x 3.2cm (dia)
* Weight: 90g
* Includes: Microscope, Microscope stand, DinoCapture Software (Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, XP Mac OS9, OSX)
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DigiMicro 200X Zooming USB Digital Microscope
It’s a great, useful tool – I use it to check the edge when honing straight razors.
positive points:
– build quality
– great image quality
– high resolution
– useful stand
– supported on Linux (a must for me)