The Foldscope brings a powerful science tool to schools that can't afford microscopes. Scientists use it too. Its creators ...

Six years on from the first iMicro smartphone microscope, the team has unveiled its latest: the iMicro Q3p, a fingertip-sized ...

Huygenian Huygens eyepieces are constructed of two plano-convex lenses with both plane sides facing the eye. Periplan Periplan eyepieces are constructed of one achromatic doublet and two plano-convex ...

Fitting a microscope in your pocket is generally a bit of a challenge, unless that microscope is the iMicro Q3p. The latest ...

iMicro Q3p is a fingertip-sized microscope lens Attaches to your smartphone camera for 1200x magnification It's now available to back on Kickstarter for as little as CA$55 Fitting a microscope in ...

Condenser lenses are higher-power objective lenses that increase illumination and resolution. These microscope lenses and objectives have very small diameters and are mounted at or below the focusing ...

Here’s an oldie but a goodie. [RunnerPack] stumbled upon an article from 2001 about building a stereo microscope from a pair of binoculars and a camera lens. With a ring light attached to the ...

Enhance your microscopy with high-performance objective lenses designed for precision imaging across scientific, industrial, and lab applications. Shanghai Optics’ microscope objective lenses deliver ...

If you want to take pictures of tiny things close up, you need a macro lens. Or a microscope. [Nicholas Sherlock] thought “Why not both?” He designed a 3D-printed microscope lens adapter that ...

Late 1600s – Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek constructed a microscope with a single spherical lens. It magnified up to ×275. 1800s - the optical quality of lenses increased and the ...

Researchers in Canada have pioneered a novel 3D printing technique known as blurred tomography, enabling the swift production of microlenses with optical quality comparable to commercial standards.