Today’s Battle of the Microscopes brings us two brands frequently difficult to distinguish from each other–AmScope vs. Omano. We’re looking specifically at the AmScope B360B vs. the Omano OM118-B4. Put on your boxing gloves, because here we go again! Just like last time, we’ll rate the units on a few different categories first (optical quality, features, expandability, and…
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Microscope Reviews & Educational Information If you’re here, you’re probably brand new to microscope use and looking for some advice. No problem! That’s why we’re here! So here are some microscope basics to get you started–as well as a few tips and tricks to avoid some common pitfalls when searching for your first microscope. Key…
Omax Microscope Review – “CS-M834” 40X-1600X Advanced Lab Trinocular Compound Microscope with Reversed Nosepiece Review
The Omax microscope chain of quality lead me to run into the CS-M834 on my way up, and made me to realize that there are many, many, MANY variants to this unit. Seriously, I think this thing has more variants than AmScope microscopes do, it’s quite crazy. I found this unit configured for brightfield only,…
Microscope 101: Oil Immersion Lens Technique
Oil immersion is a necessary technique for high powered microscopy, however few modern microscope companies seem to provide information what exactly that means! How is a novice microscope user supposed to know these things without at least a little insert or blurb in the manual about it? It honestly confuses me every time I see…
Microscope 101: How To Properly Prepare a Microscope Slide
Often times, new microscope users are puzzled by how to properly prepare slides. A slide incorrectly prepared can often lead the novice microscopist to believe their new microscope is defective (as we’re more prone to think our equipment is wrong with lower priced purchases than we are to question our techniques–it’s natural to the human…