How digital microscopes differ from conventional microscopes
Digital microscopes are also called digital microscopes, photo microscopes, camera microscopes/video microscopes or CCD microscopes, etc. A digital microscope is a microscope that combines a traditional optical microscope and a video lens. That is, a microscopic imaging device is added to an ordinary optical microscope, which can be a digital camera or a microscopic camera. It converts the physical image seen by the microscope through digital-to-analog conversion and images it on the computer. The digital microscope is a high-tech product successfully developed by combining elite optical microscope technology, advanced photoelectric conversion technology, and ordinary televisions. As a result, we can reproduce the research on the microscopic field from traditional ordinary binocular observation to the monitor, thereby improving work efficiency. Mainly used for teaching purposes.
The main benefit of a digital microscope is that a traditional optical microscope can only be used by one person. It is difficult to share the images of the microscope. To capture the images in the microscope, special instruments are often needed. However, because a digital microscope can be connected to a computer, the images in the microscope can be played through a projector connected to the classroom, so that students in the classroom can watch the images together, which is also helpful for the management of classroom order.
Digital microscopes can reduce eye fatigue, capture and save the observed scenes. And it can meet the needs of multiple people for simultaneous preview at low cost. It can also achieve multiple functions such as measuring, printing, and taking photos.
The differences between digital microscopes and ordinary microscopes include the following six major differences:
1. It has the function of microscopic photography, which can save the observed microscopic effects and form graphic files, which can be circulated to relevant departments; ordinary microscopes can only observe through the eyepiece and cannot take microscopic photography.
2. Connected to a computer, multiple people can observe at the same time; ordinary microscopes can only be observed by one person.
3. Previewing on the computer screen can reduce eye fatigue; ordinary microscopes require observation through the eyepieces at all times, which can easily cause excessive eye fatigue.
4. The imaging device of a digital microscope can have functions such as measurement, printing of graphic reports, and video recording; ordinary microscopes can only perform microscopic observation.
5. Digital microscopes are a new era in the development of modern scientific instruments and have many functions that ordinary microscopes do not have. It has developed rapidly in scientific research, product testing, teaching demonstrations, archaeology, etc.
