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What is the range of magnification of the dissecting microscope?

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There are different types of dissection microscopes. Most of the cheaper versions are just binocular, with two eye pieces. Some of the other high grade versions have a top trinocular port for attaching camera and video equipment. The cheaper ones also have fixed magnification, while the more expensive ones have a zoom feature allowing continuously variable magnification over the complete zoom range. Different zoom objectives give different ranges of zoom, with the higher ranges costing more.

A stereo microscope has a useful magnification up to 100×. The resolution is maximally in the order of an average 10× objective in a compound microscope, and often much lower.

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