Neat pictures I've taken

[glatt]

It's a fun toy, but it's more difficult than you would expect to find interesting stuff to look at. Most stuff is boring under magnification. And the thing is attached to the computer with a 2-3 foot cord, so it's not something you would want to carry around into the outdoors, even with a laptop. So I keep looking for small items I can carry to it, and hope they look fascinating. Most don't. But I'll post anything that looks cool. I bet fresh veggies would be good, but our kitchen is kinda empty right now.

Also, the shutter button is on the side of the microscope, and when you press it, the whole thing vibrates a little, making stuff more blurry. I'm going to try doing a screen grab next. What keystroke combination does a screen shot of the active window? ctrl-Prnt Screen? Something like that, I think. That would eliminated the movement from the shutter button.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I had one of those I traded a cheap Soviet microscope for. I agree with all of your comments about the difficulty of non-portability, short cord and that damn shutter button. Also it's a short depth of field so finding cool shit to scope is work.

Oh, and the plastic toy appearance limits bragging rights to the resulting pictures, rather than the scope.

[glatt]

And it looks like I'm done with it anyway. I had 3 old XP laptops in my closet that were gathering dust because they were too slow to do anything online, and I offered one to my friend so he could use his microscope camera gift with it. He took a few days to get back to me and just responded that he would love to have a free crappy old laptop and his camera back. So I'll be giving the camera back in the next day or so, and getting rid of a computer as well.

Any requests of something to see up close? I've pretty much run out of ideas.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by glatt

It's a fun toy, but it's more difficult than you would expect to find interesting stuff to look at. Most stuff is boring under magnification. And the thing is attached to the computer with a 2-3 foot cord, so it's not something you would want to carry around into the outdoors, even with a laptop. So I keep looking for small items I can carry to it, and hope they look fascinating. Most don't. But I'll post anything that looks cool. I bet fresh veggies would be good, but our kitchen is kinda empty right now.

Also, the shutter button is on the side of the microscope, and when you press it, the whole thing vibrates a little, making stuff more blurry. I'm going to try doing a screen grab next. What keystroke combination does a screen shot of the active window? ctrl-Prnt Screen? Something like that, I think. That would eliminated the movement from the shutter button.

would this help?

usb extension cord that's a ten footer. but they're available longer. how long do you need?