Your Favorite Microscope

[PeopleWish]

Whats your favorite microscope for examining your tasty trichromes with?

I hate the radio shack 12 dollar poopers, used my friend scope with LED, pretty sweet.

Want to see what else is out there

 

[SeaMaiden]

For trichomes I use a good quality 10x jeweler's loupe. For microbes I use a student microscope, simple compound bright light or whatever they're called. I want to get a microscope like Microbeman uses, but I haven't grown up yet.

 

[megayields]

I have been searching for some kind of hardware + App for a ANDROID phone to have a very light weight portable USB Microscope and to be able to use my phone screen to view.....has anyone seen this solution or did I just describe a new business model for someone smarter than me?

 

[SecondAttempt]

Sorry Mega business model exists, at least in the IPhone world... seen something like that advertised by a company called gro1 I believe. Its an Iphone case with a lens built in that lines up with the camera lens of the phone. Problem with a setup like that for Android is there is so much various on cases and lens placement. I personally have a Windows phone so i'm fucked.

I have a 30X/60X loupe... for now. A buddy has a 100X radioshack pocket scope that is awesome, I'm gonna pick one up as an Xmas present to myself.

 

[trichrider]

leica stereo if you please santa...

radio shack till then. 100X lets you be small too.

 

[the gnome]

I'm kinda partial to them fancy ones with a scanner....
mmmm ?? electron microscopes....

 

[habeeb]

this is my take.. and yes I had like 3 different scopes, until my box didn't show up at my new house...


your eye. take a look at visual ques on the plant to know when to chop:

-yellowing / senescence / time / bud swell / hair change / watering / smell / trich production / you can even see with your eye red trichs / full cloudy trichs.... get a feel and you don't need something to replace experience / instinct / intuition


keep it simple, the less crap the better



but if you don't want the easy way, or don't want my advice, look at jewelers loupes, here

 

[wildgrow]

Yup, jewelers loupes are good enough - as long as you have steady hands.

 

[SeaMaiden]

There's an easy method for viewing with a loupe... let me see if I can find a YouTube or something demonstrating the technique.

Here we go. This isn't quite the method that I use, I make a tripod out of my hands, putting my wrists together, but this method is very good, too.
http://www.goodoldgold.com/articles/loupe/

 

[Cannabloomer]

This website has some Iphone cases with 60x scopes that attach to them,http://happyhydro.com/

And heres another site with some Droid razr phone case and 60x scope.BUT they dont have them released yet.
http://dlwholesale.com/product_info.php?cPath=104_698&products_id=1133

 

[ak-51]

I am looking into getting a digital USB microscope that will output video and images to my monitor.

Can anybody suggest one to me?

I am looking at a Veho 400x, but it looks pretty much the same as several other USB microscopes under different brand names, which makes me suspicious that it's just re-branded Chinese junk.

 

[LeeROI]

My xmas present to myself last year was a DSLR and a quality macro lens.

 

[Hammerhead]

DSLR are the best as far as pic quality. I just sold my DSLR. I loved the camera it just took a long time to setup a macro shot that had super hi res quality. My pics with the Nikon 8200 are very good for documenting my grows. I can use a Loupe to check if ready to harvest. Maybe someday I will get another DSLR. I had one of those Intel usb scopes it worked OK. If you really need one there's allot on ebay.