Powerful but easy to use software enables the capture of stills and live video (it actually works!) so you can view micro-organisms swimming.

Also suitable for jewellers and watchmakers who want to show customers their repairs; valuers taking a record of diamonds; gemmologists making identifications.

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Examining a stone under a loupe or microscope is the most important test for a gemmologist. But loupes have their limitations, both in power and flexibility.

This microscope is switchable to 20X or 40X magnification and has the flexible lighting system essential for any gemmologist.

We often have secondhand microscopes

A very high quality binocular stereo microscope, switchable to either 10X or 30X magnification, built in light.

Three magnifications included: 2X, 4X and 6X. Also included: heavy duty carrying case. Built-in light.

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Instead of looking through eyepieces, you look at a screen (it's all done with mirrors…and prisms) which is easier on the eye.

Stereo image, long working distance, ideal for working with tools.

At watchmaking class we've compared the MANTIS with high quality conventional microscopes and the MANTIS far-exceeds them in quality.

The quality is so good that I dismantle a wrist watch at 2X magnification, untangle a hairspring at 4X, oil a small jewel at 6X.