Recommendations for USB Digital Microscope ?

[Nanfeishen]

Per the title .
I see takelot has a few no name brand ones going for up to R1000, and then there is jump to Celestron with the cheapest coming in around R2000.
Anybody have one or used one ?

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[Nanfeishen]

Just looked for it - it's a regular Celestron microscope with a digital imager add-on, so not sure it's what you're looking for. The digital imager is 2Mp. I see there's a 5Mp addon if you want.

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It's a very solid microscope but not portable. Includes 10x eyepiece and 10x 20x and 4x objective lenses allowing 10x->400x magnification.
It's basically this one (though an older model):

Celestron Labs CM400 Compound Microscope

The Celestron Labs CM400 compound microscope offers all the essential features you need in a lab-ready microscope at an economical price. The 10x eyepiece and three objective lenses (4x, 10x and 40x) allow for magnifications of 40x, 100x, and 400x. Upper and lower lighting provides bright...

www.celestron.com

Wow, thank you for the offer, however, I need something a little bit more mobile, as its for stamps, sheets of stamps etc, so i need to be able to sweep over the sheet from stamp to stamp etc.

I have accumulated a rather large collection, from Albums to sheets to loose over the last 40 years, and its time i started digitalising many them.

 

[mercurial]

Hmmm. I have been contemplating getting one but I would like one that takes great images.