After struggling with the cheap hand held devices I paid up for the digital usb that puts the trichomes on the computer screen. I thought I was on top until I went to a person's house for xmas and they had a lab type microscope. I used it to check some buds and it was like driving a caddillac. So much easier and clearer. I was so impressed I bought one and it's in the mail. I may have screwed up though because I bought a compound microscope not stereo. I don't know what kind the person had that I tried. Can you even look at buds with a compound microscope or do you have to put them on a slide?
Compound mircoscopes
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Jaybodankly
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return it and get what you want.
It's not though. If you google it some say compound is best.I think you want the stereo from what your saying, easily googled
printer
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How much time do you want to spend with it? I have a cheap handheld one that I can check my plants with, wish it had less magnification though. For the couple of minutes I want to use it at a time it is fine. I used to use microscopes in a test lab, they were wonderful. Would love to have access to the equipment now but not being able to is not the end of the world.
I guess I need a stereo that gets you the same results as the handheld but with more comfort. The compound you have to use slides and that's not what I"m looking for. I had a mold issue so I'm just getting into identifying mold under the scope. I actually plan on doing pretty thorough inspections from now on b/c it messed me up a little.