Two new plastic toys

[charangohabsburg]

This Friday I found this in my letter box:

"Small change detecting microscope"

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I intend to use it for detecting money in my wallet.
One can get these tiny toys for about $5 (shipping from Hongkong included) if ordering via eBay. But as I didn't want to wait a month I ordered it from a Swiss online auction portal so I only had to wait 36 hours (but I had to pay about $10).

Taking pictures from what one can see with this tiny hand lens would be a little difficult, so I also ordered a more sophisticated device (but still a toy) which arrived a day later:

Not yet the real thing but a nice toy

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It came with two eye-pieces (10x and 16x) and a monitor which allows to take pictures and do some filming too.
Using the microscope with the eye-piece works well with the 4x and 10x lens but all adjustments suck when using the 40x lens. Electronic picture quality (stills and movies) is pretty poor but hey, it didn't cost a fortune. And it works somehow. But actually the currency detecting dwarf is much more user friendly.

Here you see why you should not keep your tonewood and finished instruments under water. Two bacteria having a Master Grade spruce top for lunch:


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[kiwigeo]

I had a client supply me with a binocular microscope with a camera attached. When they requested that I send in photos of the rock samples I was looking at and describing in detail I suggested that if they didn't trust my descriptions then they could book me a helicopter off the rig. The camera got sent back to the office next day.