Re: RMS recommends monocular? Re: Zenith SCM-200

On Jul 1, 2:12 pm, "Kevin Cunningham" <sms...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Jun 29, 3:43 pm, "mc" <l...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The 'Royal Microscopical Society - approved Microscopes for use in
Primary Schools' web page may be of interest (link at bottom of page
below) in deciding which model would suit your seven year old.

http://www.rms.org.uk/amfes.shtml

At first glance those appear to be all monocular!

They also say that they want each school to have "a" microscope. In
other words that children would presumably queue up to use the school
microscope, probably only getting seconds on it before having to yield
to the next child. This would be a very different from the situation
Kevin describes where lab workers would spend the entire working day
looking through a microscope. Kevin also, replying to you in another
post, points out that in Astronomy, the viewer will not spend their
entire time looking through the eyepiece, but will be doing other
things as well, limiting the time

Looking at the three stereotypical cases we have; professional lab
technician, astronomer, and child in a school with a very limited
supply of microscopes, the amount of eyepiece usage is very different.
I'd think that a child with a hobby microscope would probably have
similar eyepiece use to an astronomer. I.e. the microscope would be
used occasionally, for short times, and there would be short periods
of the child looking into the scope and then searching for new
samples, etc. Would Kevin agree?

Look, I wouldn't. The cheap, cheesey monc is a poor use of your money. Buy
a used instrument built by a quality maker or the QX, they really work. A
used stereo can go quite cheap, just look around, so can a used compound.
And they hold what little monetary value they have.

I think the microscopes I would consider buying are "cheap and
cheesy". Unless the RMS has also had the wool pulled over its eyes. As
far as the QX goes, I've made a bid over on ebay, and will see what
the result is.

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