

It can be as simple as a single lens working as a magnifying glass, or a compound microscope where a system of lenses increases the magnification to a higher resolution.USB digital microscopes are compact, portable and can plug directly into your laptop or PC. Optical microscopes work by using light and a lens or series of lenses to magnify a sample. You can find out more in our microscopes guide.Key Types of MicroscopeOptical Microscopes: These are the most common type of microscope.


Microscopes are able to magnify objects to hundreds or thousands of times their original size, allowing the user to make detailed observations. Microscopes Microscopes are magnifying optical instruments used to study objects that are too small to view with the naked human eye, instead placed in a slide to be viewed through the microscope.
