Let's Explore the Fantastic Micro World with Our Microscope !

What is a Microscope?

Be first invented by Zacharias Janssen in the Netherlands in 1590, Microscope is a laboratory instrument uses lenses to magnify objects that are too small to be seen by the naked eye. Optical Microscope (also known as Light Microscope) is the most common microscope, which uses lenses to refract visible light that passed through a thinly sectioned sample to produce an observable image. As a common type of optical microscope, Biological Microscope is primarily designed to observe microscope biological slides (usually 1mm thick) with specimen cells, tissues, organisms, or other own-made slides.

A general biological microscope mainly consists of objective lens, ocular lens, lens tube, stage, and reflector. An object placed on the stage is magnified through the objective lens. When the target is focused, a magnified image can be observed through the ocular lens

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Microscope Structure

Before using the microscope, you should be familiar with the names of each part of the microscope and how to use it

How to use a microscope ?

1. Connect AC power (100V-240V, included in the package), or load 3* AA batteries (NOT included in the package) at the bottom(Please avoid using low battery, which may affect the brightness of the light)

2. Wipe the dust off the condenser, objective lens, eyepieces, and slides with cleaning cloth (the dust will also be magnified under microscope)

3. Place the slide specimen on the center of stage and fix it with clips. Make sure the specimen is on the condenser

4. Put the eyepiece into the eye tube and rotate the nosepiece to set the objective to lowest magnification 4X. Turn on the bottom and top light at the lowest brightness. The dimming handwheels are on the sides of the base

5. While watching into the eyepiece, slowly rotate the coarse-focus knob to obtain a blurred image. Then slowly rotate the fine-foucs knob until a clear vision. You may move the specimen slightly to make sure the image is showed in the center of the view or your preferred position. Tips: usually rotate to move the stage up when magnification increases

6. Objective lens can be changed to increase the magnification, rotate the nosepiece clockwise: 4X→10X→40X. Also, 2X barlow len can be used with eyepiece (WF10X or WF25X) to increase the magnification (Please note that 2X barlow len cannot be used along as a eyepiece)

7. Adjust the brightness of the light or the 5-color filter disc to have a better view. As the magnification increases, higher brightness of bottom light is needed

8. You may mount the phone adapter on the eyepiece to see the image, and you can take pictures or videos directly and share with families & friends!

Note:

-While watching, please don't take too close to the eyepiece, or you may see your own eyelash in the image as imperfections

-Please make sure that never over-tighten the focus knob. The stage is designed to move in the fixed safe range so that the objective lens will not collide with specimen and cause damage

-Biological Microscope is primarily designed to observe microscope biological slides(usually 1mm thick) with specimen cells, tissues, organisms, or other own-made slides. So when you use it to observe other types of specimen or other opaque objects, the range of magnification is limited depending on the thickness or the condition of the specimen

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How to create your slide?

1. Wipe the blank slides with cleaning cloth

2. Place 1 to 2 drops of water on the center of the slide with a dropper

3. Use a tweezer to tear off a small thin piece of the observation object, and then place it in the droplet on the slide and make it be flat

4. Take a clean cover glass with the tweezer, and firstly make one side of the cover glass touch the edge of the water droplet and then slowly lower it to cover all observation material

5. You may stain your slide to make it more visible in color contrast while being observed under microscope: Use a dropper to drip dye on the one side of the cover glass and draw it from the opposite side with absorbent paper until the whole slide is stained

6. Blot off excess water or dye and you can put your slide under the microscope for observation

Some ideas about using microscope:

Q: With high magnification (at 1000x or higher), the view is dark. It's not clear

A: (a) Because of the principle and design structure of an eyepiece, the magnification is inversely proportional to the size of the aperture. The larger the magnification, the smaller size of the aperture, the lower the light penetration, resulting in a relatively dark field of view

(b) The condition of the specimen. The thickness and spread area of sample specimen vary, which affects the brightness of the field of view. For example: Animal specimen, like Ant legs, has a certain thickness and solid parts, so when we observe their specimens under the microscope, the bottom light cannot fully penetrate the thick and solid parts, so it's dark and when we increase the magnification, we need to turn up the bottom light to get a brighter and clearer view; However, plantt specimen, like onion skin, is generally relatively thin and has a larger spread area, resulting in better transparency and light penetration, so the view is brighter and it can be seen more clearly at high magnification comparing to animal specimen

(c) Overall, based on the working principle of a microscope, the lower the magnification, the brighter the field of view and the higher the clarity. The higher the magnification, the darker the field of view, and the lower the clarity. There is a common misunderstanding that the higher the magnification, the higher the clarity. However, this is not entirely true. The fact is that higher the magnification results lower clarity. We recommend to adjust the bottom light brightness, fine focus, or color filter disc to view specimens at a proper magnification. For basic biological microscope, the best view of total magnification should be 80x-1600x, depending on the condition of the specimen. For higher clarity with higher magnification, then we need more high-end microscope

(d) There are many factors that could affect the clarity of the image (can be the quality of the lens, the design of internal optical light path structure, the operating of microscope, the condition of the specimen, etc).

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