Reddit reviews Celestron - 5 MP Digital Microscope Pro - Handheld USB Microscope Compatible with Windows PC and Mac - 20x-200x Magnification - Perfect for Stamp Collecting, Coin Collecting
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True 5MP sensor to capture and save high resolution images and videos of your specimens5 Element IR cut high quality glass lens ensures sharper images. Shutter Speed 1 second to 1/1000 second20x to 200x powers, great for low power observation of 3D specimens (Note: Final magnification determined by monitor size)4 foot USB 2.0 cable for easy maneuverability when viewing large surfacesIntuitive software with measuring featuresWindows and Mac compatible
SOFTWARE and FIRMWARE:
MicroCapturePro (Model B), Windows 7 (update 2.4.1) MicroCapturePro (Model B), MAC OS (update 2.4.1) MicroCapture Pro, Windows (update 2.3) MicoCapturePro (Model B), Windows 8/Windows 10 (update 2.4.1) MicroCapturePro , MAC OS (update 2.3)
I'm on the wrong side of 50 so I've got the reading glasses, magnifier on a stand and phone camera to zoom in (Pixel2, great cam). But per tool creed, the want for more outweights the need for few.
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.ca/Celestron-Handheld-Digital-Microscope-Pro/dp/B00CMJ1I08
Sample pic of one of my old precision drivers: https://i.imgur.com/obZ1PM2.jpg
http://www.amazon.com/Celestron-Handheld-Digital-Microscope-Pro/dp/B00CMJ1I08
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I own this one. The manual focus takes a bit to perfect and the post is not long enough to get anything bigger than a small cent in the frame (I bought a dowel to extend the crap out of it and can get Morgans and bigger in the frame now), but it takes some amazing shots. Will need a light ring setup in order to photograph slabbed coins but all in all it is a really good microscope.
My only gripe is the image quality (there's definitely better quality but more expensive options) but it's not unusable by any means.
Other than that, it's nice having a huge "viewfinder" and being able to snap pictures without trying to hold a camera and loupe. I find it's easier to take a picture (or several) then analyze it/them later, that way I can pull them into Lightroom or similar and adjust the lighting to get a better look at what's going on.
I really like these celestron usb scopes . The image quality is good for the price and they are robust enough to take a beating.
Something alone these lines? or this? Or any other specific suggestions
Yes.
But it's not about the camera nearly as much as it is about lenses. For example, you can get a Canon 65mm macro lens that reproduces the images 5x bigger than lifesize. (In other words, 5x zoom). Next, you can 'crop to zoom' meaning you can just take the middle of your image to zoom in more.
A top-of-the-line professional digital camera these days is 36MP or 50MP (full-frame, or medium format, respectively). Consider that your average facebook photo is, what, 0.5 megapixels? You can zoom in quite a lot with cameras like that by just cropping and still have an acceptable image.
Also, there are digital microscopes like this one that offer 20x to 200x zoom.
http://www.amazon.com/Celestron-Handheld-Digital-Microscope-Pro/dp/B00CMJ1I08/
Their image quality is far lower than that of a professional digital camera with a macro lens, but they are in fact digital cameras.
Now, you might say: "Yes, but they accomplish this by using a lens with a large magnification. I meant just using the digital camera itself." All digital cameras need some sort of lens in front of the sensor to focus light, just like a normal camera; just like any microscope. (They don't necessarily have to be lenses, you could use mirrors and other things as well.) So it's less about the high resolution of the sensor and more about the lens, but a high resolution sensor does help to letting you crop to zoom.