What sets a professional microscope apart from a regular one
As far as the microscope itself is concerned, its function is to help people observe the microscopic world, so our primary concern is how small the target can be resolved by the mirror and whether the image is sharp.
Microscopes include ordinary optical microscopes, stereo microscopes, polarizing microscopes, differential interference microscopes, and fluorescence microscopes. The prices range from several hundred to tens of thousands. Although they can see small objects, their functions are different. A microscope can tell, and some can't at all. It is the most cost-effective microscope that is selected based on one's own purpose and combined with financial resources.
The most common optical microscope is the biological microscope. Products that are widely used in China, such as the Olympus CX31, can observe cells. Other professional functional microscopes have narrow applications and are generally used for scientific research. The structure is complex and expensive. The second is that the specimen must be processed before observation. The processing process is more complicated. The dye solution and reagents used need to be provided by professional suppliers, and microtome must be used for sectioning and paraffin embedding. chip technology.
Microscopes can see what ordinary optical microscopes cannot. It is not the difference between the eyepieces, but the difference in the structure and function of the microscope. For example, ordinary biological microscopes can see cells, and differential interference microscopes can also see cells, but differential interference microscopes have a more unique structure, which uses the interference principle of light to form images, and the cells seen have a three-dimensional effect, while what ordinary biological microscopes see is only flat. Another example is a fluorescent microscope, which can emit fluorescent light on the specimen, and can see specific parts of the specimen glow, just like seeing things that glow at night in the dark, while ordinary microscopes cannot see because there is no fluorescence generating device.
