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Hey everyone,

I'm buying a telescope from Orion, and I saw that they also sell microscopes. I've had a lot of experience with microscopes from different research and taking science classes, so I would say I'm probably intermediate in using them. Orion has two that I am looking at:

This : MicroXplore Duo-Scope S400 LED Microscope - Telescope.com is pretty cheap, and is a hybrid of a standard compound scope and a stereo scope. The idea is pretty cool and I'd love to have the stereo option, but do you guys think that the quality of both will be severely impacted due to the hybrid?

Or there is this: Ultimate 400x Digital Microscope - Telescope.com It is significantly more expensive, but I'd assume it's a better compound scope without the stereo option.

The cheaper scope also comes with all the accessories the other one does except the cheaper one also includes some things like a petri dish.

What would you guys suggest that I buy? Any help would be appreciated, thanks

A basic biological or compound microscope to look at specimens on a slide (light shines up from under the slide and through the tissue) and a traditional stereo or dissecting microscope to view solid objects at lower power (light shines down onto the specimen to be observed).

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