Thread: Any USB advice out there??

Not certain this is the right place for this Thread, but I"m sure it will be directed to were it belongs.
I just bought a USB Microscope, which I have found a bit difficult to use. Any one out there with prowese in using one of these, your advice will be greatly appreciated!!
Its a 50X to 500X power and did come with a small CD for the program to run it.

I have tried to make use of it, but at most powers, including 100X plus it's just to shaky to get a good image, by the time I get the distance and magnification right I can't get the right angle for the shot/image I am looking for, so many of you have posted such nice image's of you honing work with these scope's I know I"m, as usual, missing something.

Thanking you all in advance, I still am,

tinkersd of SRP!

I think the best way to figure it out is to just play around with it, testing different settings on zoom and focus. mine was also a bit wiggly, but after several try and failures I managed to get some decent shots, but I think to get the most out of it I have to make some sort of jig for it that can keep the razor in place and keep the housing of the scope locked in some way.

Which brand of microscope did you get? Does it come with a stand?

it did come with a stand, but as far as I can dicern, the only adjustment on it is the power select ring and the 'Zoom' button. I'll need to figure out different set up on the best table I can find, steady wise that is!!
Thank you for your advice, good to hear from you, have a great day!!

As I was going to say, sorry about that, there is no name on the scope body itself, and the only tag on the software that came with it is "COOLINGTECH SOFTWARE R+D CENTER" I that probably doesn't help, but that's all I have to work with at this point. does that help at all?? And I will keep fooling around with it, it's still being a bit of a Humbug but I will keep trying.

50x will give you the most stable image. A stable platform will help. Walking across a wood floor will cause the image to move at that power. Some way of holding the blade which will be adjustable would be a good thing. A multi angle craft vice may be a good place to start.

Jeff