So if anybody wants a really superior optic to check trichomes, just take out the lenses from an old camera. These lenses should give you a much higher quality image, much better than that crappy Radioshack microscope. The microscope is OK and has a higher magnification than you'll get from a camera lense, but the lenses it uses are really small and low quality, plus it's almost impossible to look at a free-standing plant with it. The camera lense won't do that weird thing that the microscope does, which is like make it seem that you're moving the oppsosite way that you want to move, if you know what I mean. Salvaging a camera lense may take a little while, and you may get a couple lense units out of it. If so, try attaching those two lense units to get the magnification that you want. There are a lot of unwanted old digital cameras out there that have very nice lenses.
phytokind Reviewed by phytokind on . Camera lense to check trichomes So if anybody wants a really superior optic to check trichomes, just take out the lenses from an old camera. These lenses should give you a much higher quality image, much better than that crappy Radioshack microscope. The microscope is OK and has a higher magnification than you'll get from a camera lense, but the lenses it uses are really small and low quality, plus it's almost impossible to look at a free-standing plant with it. The camera lense won't do that weird thing that the microscope Rating: 5