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Nice. Makes sense. Thanks!

@Kretz: Could you please briefly outline what you do for each setup? Best practices or dos/don'ts?

(New thread, maybe...)

Great image, Kretz!

Staging and illumination are indeed key. In fact, it's easy to reach very-wrong conclusions from microscopy by getting these factors wrong.

I'm not there yet but I aspire to...

I have not used that model but I suspect from the descriptions that their performance would be quite similar.

After trying several magnifying solutions, I finally found one that I'm really happy with: USB microscope

Much better than I had. Creates images on a par with many of those you see on Youtube.

This is an economical step up, even at (only) 250x/2MP:

Amazon.com : Plugable USB 2.0 Digital Microscope with Flexible Arm Observation Stand for Windows, Mac, Linux (2MP, 250x Magnification) :...