Does any one have a microscope they LOVE? I intend to use it for fungi identification. I would like to be able to connect it to my Windows computer, but I also have an iPad. Specs. / Cost / Necessary “accessories” would be well-appreciated! Reagent suppliers?

I’m interested too! Especially if someone can recommend something cheap that will still serve for fungi ID - it’s just a hobby of mine and I am poor but dang I want to be able to actually ID them lol

I have no suggestions, but the topic causes my heart to ache. In the early 1980’s I got to work with a beautiful old German (Leitz, Zeiss?) dissecting microscope. It had three fixed focal lengths, was all black, and side rests for your arms. The Canadian government decided to sell these old ones off…

I don’t have any specific knowledge about requirements for studying fungi, but I recently purchased a microscope and can share what I have learned. I purchased a compound microscope from Amscope. I suspect that all current inexpensive to moderately priced scopes are probably built in the same facto…

I do not know what requirements for fungi are, you might need a dissecting scope more than a compound microscope. However if you need a compound microscope the Nikon Labophot is a great choice. It was one of the first microscopes made to be easily used with a camera. Because of that you can either b…

This is the lab where I worked, and I believe ‘my’ microscope is the far one. You can just make out the silver fixed length apertures, and the left arm rest. [ext]

Microscope suggestions for fungi?

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charmedlife December 25, 2019, 12:19am 7

Thank you!

I found this to be helpful: https://www.mushroomexpert.com/microscope.html

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