Digital microscopes came up in the thread "Photoshot from a defective IN-4 Tube".
I took a look on Amazon. When I got to the ones with hi-res video displays my jaw dropped. I had no idea that they existed. This is EXACTLY what I need for through-hole work. It brings SMT within reach but my hands are too unsteady and I really don't want to go down that road. In no particular order... My budget is ~$150 I don't need to interface with a computer or even save images to an SD card (although I could probably find a use for the latter feature) What would an appropriate magnification range be? I'd like to be able to see modest areas of a PC board (say a few DIPs across) down to reading the markings on SMT parts A screen resolution of HD (1920 x 1080) on 7" screen would be in the ballpark An actual work area (albeit small) rather than some slide clips That's all I can think of at the moment. Please pile on. Terry Bowman, KA4HJH "The Mac Doctor" https://www.astarcloseup.com/ “The book said something astonishing, a very big thought. It said that the stars were suns, only very far away. The Sun was a star, but close up.”—Carl Sagan, Cosmos, 1980 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/F837615D-2502-408E-9348-FAC8AF6210D5%40gmail.com.
