Review on OMAX 40X 2000X Trinocular Compound Microscope by Terrance Haralson

This is an excellent microscope: very solid construction, clear and bright optics, smooth and precise control, and thanks to the trinocular you get a comfortable binocular view of the object while remaining calm. Possibility of digital image capture. The software is easy to install on a Windows laptop and the oscilloscope is automatically recognized when the USB cable is connected. I bought this for my "budding scientist" and used it a lot when she was out (wish I had a good one like that at her age). 1) with a modest 1.3 MP it is definitely not powerful enough (compared to the very bright and clear optics of conventional eyepieces). Given that most modern phone cameras have significantly higher resolutions, 1200 x 1024 clearly defines it as "entry level". . impressive first five minutes but fall short of expectations very quickly. (2) The color gamut is very different from what you see through eyepieces: slides with bright magenta spots visible to the naked eye appear dull, low-contrast, and dirty purple when viewed on a computer. The software allows correcting the image, but it would be nice if the camera sensor could do this itself. When you heavily tweak the image, you move from science to artistic interpretation. Finally, (3) the field of view of a camera sensor is much narrower than that of eyepieces: a digital camera can only display the central part (roughly 1/9th) of the optical field of view (regardless of the lens), but with at least 10x eyepieces. ) Not insurmountable, but it would be nice if the camera was a better match for what the lenses showed. The nice thing is that the lenses are calibrated so that when switching from lower to higher magnification the image stays nice and sharp (not what was true with "my childhood scope") and is a lot more fun to look at : Center your subject. Click the lens to the next zoom and adjust the focus a little (if at all). ) Custom diopter focusing is good for those with less than perfect vision, and I've found it useful to calibrate the eyepieces for a digital camera (if you don't, the camera won't be in focus when the eyepieces are in place, and vice versa .) Overall, I'm very happy with this acquisition: the scope is rock solid, something my young scientist will have for years to come (and I can steal eyepiece time, too, if the opportunity permits! ;-) Yes, the digital camera is still on the fringes ""toy" status might be good for some homework reports, salvaged by the software's capabilities, but considering it's "just another eyepiece" (rather than permanently in (weighing the scales of being built-in), there's a quest for something more that lives up to the possibilities of the time in terms of megapixel count, color accuracy, and sensor size.