I bought a microscope today.

[Maggot]

I use a couple small microscopes and even have one I can carry in my pocket but it's hard to use and only about 125x. I have access to a school science lab microscope from the '40's but it's not in good shape.

I keep meaning to buy a good one but never get around to it.

It's a very big world when you look at it at 450x. But then it's a pretty big world no matter how you look at it.

This thing goes 900x and up. You can use different dyes to bring out the cellular structure. Iodine is one catalyst. I just fed some pond water a couple pcs of rice to look at the creatures wiggling around in a petri dish, and will look at them in the next couple of days.

At a different setting 450x a coin looks very cool!