Question on a cheap digital micro for non-professional use



Okay, I have a low budget, but I'm looking for a way to get reasonable looking
photos of individual chondrules in meteorites into my PC. I'm looking at a
model of USB hand-held microscope. I know that I won't get anything approaching
professional level results from this-- but I'm wondering if anyone has tried
this microscope or a similar model and can tell me if it at least gives usable
results (unusable results include the output from the old Intel QX3 piece of
crap toy I tried using). I find lots of places selling this microscope, but no
reviews of the image quality:

http://www.chinavasion.com/product_info.php/pName/usb-digital-microscope-with-13-m-pixel-resolution-video-clips/

Example of a meteorite in my collection I want to image-- whole slice is around
2 inches across. Individual chondrules are in the single-digit mm range. These
images were taken by laying it on a flatbed scanner and scanning at 1600dpi.

http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/tmp/nwa_987_a.JPG
http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/tmp/nwa_987_b.JPG

And I know I have no hopes of getting results like this cheaply, but here are
examples of chondrule photos:

http://www.meteorite.com/meteorite-gallery/meteorite-pages/pc-set-1.htm

http://www.meteorite.com/meteorite-gallery/meteorite-pages/pc-set-2.htm

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