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gchiu

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#103544 10-Jun-2012 11:57

Anyone know where to purchase a second hand microscope from? Want to look at bacteria, fungi. A way to capture images would also be good.

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#638447 10-Jun-2012 12:01

gchiu: Anyone know where to purchase a second hand microscope from?? Want to look at bacteria, fungi.? A way to capture images would also be good.

Trademe? Most will not have a way of capturing images as they will be optical ones. I presume digital ones will be quite costly. I did try a usb kids microscope that recorded images, but it may not have teh magnification.

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#638451 10-Jun-2012 12:15

You could try Jaycar, they have some USB microscopes. As above, possibly not great quality though

http://jaycar.co.nz/productResults.asp?keywords=microscope&keyform=KEYWORD&SUBMIT.x=0&SUBMIT.y=0

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#638457 10-Jun-2012 12:37

I suspect those USB ones don't have sufficient resolution with 1.3Mpx lenses.

There's a guy selling monocular microscopes on TM with 40x objective lenses .. but I'd like to find a binocular scope.

Oops .. had my TM set to Wgton only rather than NZ. Time to look again. And Jaycars is open on Sunday I think.