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Binocular Microscopes: Seeing the Micro World in Stereo
Binocular Compound Microscope w/ Rechargeable Battery
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Binocular Compound Microscope w/ Halogen 6V-30W
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Binocular Zoom Stereo Microscope
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Choosing new lab equipment can be challenging, even when you're not a high profile crime solver or a medical researcher. With all of the binocular microscopes available, it seems like any would be a good for you and for your needs – but is it really that simple? In order to best match your needs with the equipment available, you need to learn more about how a binocular microscope works and how it can work for you.
Who's Using a Binocular Microscope? A binocular microscope works in a number of different situations:
- Students – In a class on dissection, binocular microscopes can help students understand what's happening at a cellular level in the parts they have removed for examination. In addition, slides that have already been prepared can be examined and studied.
- Research – In the medical field, a high powered microscope will help researchers examine cells to see how certain therapies or drugs are affecting the cells. In addition, looking at the cells and the structures of viruses and bacterium will help in creating cures for disease.
- Hobbyists – If you work with threads or with other fine details in your hobbies, a microscope can help you look at your work in finer detail than your eyes may be able to manage. This way, you can easily how your work stands up to intense scrutiny.
- Everyday folks – And if you're simply just curious about how things look up close, a microscope can help you learn more about the environment you live in.
Why a Binocular Microscope?
But unlike some microscopes, a binocular microscope offers you more than you may realize. While it will allow you to see objects in greater detail, it will also help you rest your eyes as you work on a project for a longer time. Since you are meant to look into both lenses of binocular microscopes at the same time, you're not putting a lot of strain onto one eye as you would with a simpler design. You can keep both eyes open as you look at the slide, easily allowing yourself to turn away to make notes before turning back to the slide.
What You Need to Know Before You Buy. When you are choosing a binocular microscope, you will want to look for several things to be included:
- Magnification levels – Depending on how close you want to get to the items you are examining, the level you choose will not only help you get to the most minute of details, but this added magnification will also make the price higher.
- Illumination – Having backlighting in binocular microscopes will help you get a better idea of the outline of the object you are examining as well as highlight any details that are lost in shadows.
- Ease of use – Ideally, your microscope should be able to be moved in a variety of directions and up and down for the heights of the users.
- Quality – The binocular microscope should be made of a heavy metal material as well as come with a larger base to prevent toppling and falling from the desk or table surface.
