The Compound Microscope Alternative - The Video Microscope

Microscopes, without any doubt, are marvelous inventions without which the current state of life on Earth would be very different indeed. Microscopes have led to the discovery of countless medically and chemically-based improvements in the human condition. Yet for all that, the traditional microscope has its flaws.
The commonly used compound microscope allows only a very limited view of a specimen at any given time; any distraction can cause the viewer to miss something of importance. The binocular stereo microscope is also lacking in any means of recording the images which it reveals, so their interpretation is limited to the voice recordings of those viewing them.
But the greatest flaw in the traditional compound microscope it that it only allows you to see what is directly beneath its lens and since lenses are small to begin with, you miss out on the majority of what may be happening on slide, and can only see it piecemeal as you keep moving the stage around so that the lens covers different parts of the specimen.
The Solution
Enter the video microscope, developed to address all the shortcomings of its traditional compound counterpart. A video microscope is designed to link to your personal computer through a wireless application or USB cable, and to project whatever image is visible beneath its lens onto your monitor or television screen. But there's more.
A digital biological microscope allows you to turn the images projected onto your PC into digital files which you can save to your hard drive. You'll have them available as videos to view whenever you wish, and to examine as closely as you need to. You'll even be able to magnify them up to one hundred times more than your video microscope did, and see things you could never have otherwise seen.
Not only that; you'll be able to pass your saved images along as email files. You can even get software which will let you make notes directly on your saved images, and send you're your annotated files to colleagues for their input.
Uses For The Video Microscope
The medical and engineering industries have come to depend on the video microscope and its capacity for preserving images for extended study. Philatelists and numismatists who are notorious for their attachments to their magnifying glasses have now adopted the video microscope to record and authenticate images of rare stamps and coins before they purchase them. The video microscope has quite simply revolutionized the ways in which research can be used!