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The Outfitter Store: Stereo Microscopes
Stereo microscopes are the second most common type of microscope. They can also be referred to as dissecting, dissection, or inspection microscopes. The stereo microscope is what many refer to as a low power microscope. Magnification (power) can have a range from about 10x to 80x with magnification in the 10x to 40x the most popular. Also, zoom models from about 10x to 60x or so are very convenient.
Low power is used for examining larger sized items like insect parts, plant and flower parts, rocks and fossils, stamps, coins, PC boards, material surfaces, hair, etc. However, specimen slides can also be observed albeit at these lower powers.
There are two separate light paths (as opposed to a single light path in a compound microscope) which produce a true stereo, three dimensional (3-D) image of the specimen or object. Within the objective lens you will find two lenses (one for
each path of light) side-by-side. The optical design parameters of a stereo microscope limit its 3-D effects to low powers only.
