I am often asked whether hand held digital microscopes can be used to view microscope slides. The answer is yes. However they are not as good as a traditional microscope as they do not use transmitted light, or have a condenser, or the same quality objective and eyepieces that a good quality compound biological microscope has. Given these limitations they can still give quite good images.
The image below is from a slide of a mouse tail cross section captured at 200X with our
TLI iMicro Pro digital microscope. As you can see there is a lot of detail visible in this slide. For schools and organisations that do not have traditional microscopes these hand held microscopes with stands can provide a good alternative.
