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Build a microscope!

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For see through use, you can put the microscope on a clear plastic box with a mirror. A petri dish is useful for pond critters.
Photography is very possible. Focal depth is very limited, but software can take care of this: CombineZ 5.0
Illumination works well with a halogen reading light. Small critters hate the heat, so using a white LED is another option.

Left is an 8 mm moviecam zoom lens, mounted in an aluminum disk. Right is a 75 mm enlarger lens.
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No more fun than demolition, designing, building, experimenting! I like making things on a really low budget , so most people in this world, who are poor, might benefit from my ideas