Celestron handheld digital Microscope

[fishguttz]

I just bought the USB capable Celestron handheld digital Microscope. It s very easy to use but it only takes shots at 20x and 400x.

I took these pics at 20x and 400x of something growing in my uninhabited tank. anybody know what it is. It is clumped all over the bottom of the tank.

[mpedersen]

What kind of photographic resolution do you get with that thing?

[fishguttz]

The resolution is 0.3mp using a ¼” CMOS chip (640x480 pixels)


Not too great I guess. the images look better live. but it's handheld and easy to focus and I can submerge it about 3/4" into a solution. (not the microscope, just the plastic spacer on the front)


How does that compare with the one you have?


Here is DTs phytoplankton at 400x

[mpedersen]

I'd say it's probably pretty compareable to the QX5 then.

[fishguttz]

I'm not sure but It might be possible that the brown stuff above is bacterial floc, I don't know if that is good or bad, but it is easy to siphon out of the tank.