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A common question when viewing a microscopy image on a large screen is: What is the total magnification I am viewing on my monitor?" In order to correctly calculate the answer to this question, we must know the answer to the following four questions. What is the microscopes objective's magnification? What is the c-mount adapter's magnification? What is the diagonal measurement of the monitor in m …

Have you ever looked through your microscope at a beautiful image in high magnification and wished you could capture more of the image than what you see through the field of view? Many microscope digital cameras have an image stitching feature that will allow you to do this. Some microscope digital cameras include software that has a feature specifically for image stitching. The way in which most …

Many upright microscopes have focusing eyepieces. These eyepieces can be adjusted by each microscope operator to ensure that the image is crisp and clear for their eyes. The focusing eyepieces adjust for any differences in vision between an individual person's two eyes. Properly setting up the focusing eyepieces takes a few simple steps and should be performed by each user, since the settings will …

Foreign materials in food need to be identified with a variety of food analysis methods for safety reasons. Food analysis microscopes are used to identify ingredients that go into prepared foods, additives, as well as undesirable substances including toxins or prohibited substances including glass fragments, metals, plastics, stone or even fragments from the food itself. A microscope is used to se …