After observing soil biology through several different microscopes and hunting around for the perfect machine, we’ve selected these microscopes to suit professional agronomists as well as farmers. These are quality instruments at inexpensive prices.

What’s different about these microscopes is we have put them together to suit your needs.

All come standard with a 60x objective, rather than an oil immersion 100x objective. Oil immersion gives a higher magnification but it is a bit of mucking around and there’s a risk of damaging your lenses with the oil and breaking glass coverslips and slides. You can get an oil immersion objective, but most people use it once, make a mess, then spend their lives wishing they had an objective that had more magnification than 40x but less hassle than 100x. (forget the oil immersion nightmare and) Live your dream with one of these machines that come standard with 4x, 10x, 40x & 60x objectives.

The standard eyepieces are Wide Field 10x and we offer optional extra 16x eyepieces, giving you almost 1000x magnification without the oil immersion.

Hot incandescent lights are a thing of the past and the really good news is not only do LED lights last much longer and consume less energy, they won’t dry out your sample or cause excess movement (“Brownian motion”). LED lighting is standard with the newer models (2011V and 2011Y).

A couple of other features that are unusual in budget microscopes and therefore worth pointing out in these models are the smooth and accurate double layer mechanical stage and the coaxial coarse and fine focus adjustment with knobs on both the right and left sides.

We’ve found all of these microscopes a pleasure to use and we’re sure you’ll find one that suits you.  You can now buy these microscopes, cameras and parts online at  Carbon Farming Innovations