trichome viewing?

I have seen of you who can not only get a clear sight at your trichomes, but can also get a pic through the microscope I cannot see anything through mine. I bought the 10 dollar raqdio shack microscope and cant see anything out of it any tricks? lights on or off? any tricks to get a clear view?

i put my camera on macro then i back as far up as i can and zoom in all the way. sometimes i throw the big magnifying glass in front of it.

if ya can't see anything then it might be broken, try and mess with some of the settings on it.

btw NICE buds FDD

thank you for the answers I have played around with my scope today and noticed much to my surprise many of the trichomes are turning to cloudy. My old method is the 60-70% of pistils turning red and by the looks of the pistils i am 3-4 weeks off i would say at this point about 40-50% of trichomes are cloudy with the rest being completely clear I was wondering, from your experiences, how far off harvest is 40-50% cloudy trichs flowering for about 6 weeks vegged for 6 weeks from clone? I do not want to wait too long and sacrifice any potency i am looking for a decent balanced dont want to be stuck to the couch but i also want to be able to relax . thank you