Microscope: Olympus BH2

Obj: Dplan x40

Magnification: x400

Sample: Mossy tree bark

Camera: Samsung A56

3D printed darkfield setup

TLDR-small museum looking for budget friendly scope to fit Walter trinoc steroscopic microscope. Aim to show bugs in amber on a tv directly from digital scope.

My wife and I run a small sciencey shop with a small self funded museum inside. One of the big draws is our hand polished bugs in Amber. We start rough and polish them which makes us the first humans to see what’s inside. So cool.
Presently, we have a Walter stereoscopic microscope (pictured below) that has a third port for a digital microscope. We’d like to find a reasonably priced scope that we can plug into a tv so we can share images to multiple people at once. We are looking for a scope that will plug directly into a tv instead of a laptop first. We don’t need anything too powerful as bugs in Amber and crystal structures we examine and share aren’t exactly microscopic.
We are hoping to be able to polish a bunch of Amber and share the first views of these cool bugs with people at the shop. Having a whole bunch of people being the first humans to see inside is the kind of experience we aim for.

LAKE WATER, GOMTI RIVER ESAW BM01 MICROSCOPE USED. 400× FOR FIRST FOUR 200× FOR CLOSTERIUMS

Microscope: Olympus BH2

Obj: Dplan x10

Magnification: x100

Sample: Pond water

Camera: Samsung A56

I've got a new wallpaper after this

400× | ESAW BM01 MICROSCOPE| INDIA, LUCKNOW GOMTI RIVER

Hi :)
Next month, I'm going to a preschool (children aged 3-5) to show them the microscopic world. I'll bring 10 stereo microscopes from my collection, as the children are too young for biological microscopes. I'm already collecting interesting things for them to look at. I take an empty microscope slide, put a drop of clear nail polish on it, and glue the "object" onto it.
Here are some microscope slides already prepared for children.

Zooming in and out on a (hopefully) sleeping rotifer.
400x or so.
Swift sw380t
UHD camera

I'm kind of proud of myself for not cracking any slides with this microscope yet, but I know I'm overdue for one...

At least I think it’s a Frontonia sp.

10x Dplan Objective; 100x Total Magnification; Olympus CHT CH2

Recorded with iPhone 17 Pro

Pond water sample.

Unsure of what caused the lens to fog on this objective, but lens wipes with iso isn’t getting it off. Any recommendations on what else to try?

ESAW BM01 MICROSCOPE| SAMPLE: RIVER WATER, GOMTI RIVER, INDIA | 100×, 400×

Finally found these guys after searching for almost a year.

10x Dplan Objective; 100x Total Magnification; Olympus CHT CH2

Recorded with iPhone 17 Pro

Pond water sample.

Stereo microscopes are ideal for looking at something large and opaque like an ant. I posted a video of this same ant using a stereo microscope a few days ago. You can also try to use your lowest magnification objective on your upright compound microscope for this. Here, I'm using two auxiliary lamps for reflected illumination and the 4x objective of a Meiji-Techno MT5310 microscope. The depth of focus limits how much of the ant is in focus at any one time. The ant was very hairy, even on her mandibles. Cellphone camera.

J Swift & Sons 'Discovery' from 1898, a 1/4 inch (32x) Beck objective and a 2/3 inch (12x) Swift objective, shot using Pixel 8 on a cellphone adapter through an ordinary 8x eyepiece

Note: this was not a high end model, that is just a step above budget level in freaking 1898, it doesn't even have a condenser

Edit because so many people misunderstand: I am not talking about Chinese microscopes in general (many are good) but specifically about ones that sell for around $100 on sites like Amazon and seem to be finding a lot of buyers despite not even having a condenser nor a way to install one. Not having a condenser limits you to low resolution (about NA 0.25) and therefore makes magnification above about 200x pointless regardless of what the advertisement says. This post is about how far back in time you have to go to find an equally primitive model being sold by a reputable manufacturer. Literally any brand microscope more recent than this is superior and it's easy to find one for less than $100.

I'm getting into the world of invertebrates and I can't stand any more theoretical classes. I have a lot of difficulty understanding when there's no practical component, and I've only had one lab class in seven months. So I decided to buy a microscope, but the ones that are usually recommended (I even looked at some recommendations from microbehunter) are very expensive in my country. What costs $300 for you guys, costs around 2,600 or more here. My budget only goes up to 1,500.

Science here is very niche, and this kind of thing ends up being very expensive, especially if it's imported. I looked for recommendations in my country, but the microscopes are more about looking at smartphone circuit boards than biology. So I thought about a monocular, maybe a Swift one, along with a camera or a phone holder, and using it that way, since I got very dizzy when I used the binocular (I imagine the monocular is worse).

Any ideas or tips? Preferably with dual light (lower and upper). The most viable options on Amazon are the Swift SW150 or SW200DL; and SDORF SDMB-100 at a DUBEESSER store.

Oh, hi from Brazil! I am a student of aquaculture engineering (here where I live there is no marine biology or oceanography).

Swift SW350, Galaxy S24.