If you want to take magnified photographs with a digital camera, you’re out of luck. Macro settings and lenses can only take you so far. For greater detail of very small objects, you’re going to need a digital microscope.
Ordinary optical microscopes are fairly expensive, and those with digital cameras are even moreso, but there’s a growing range of affordable USB microscope cameras aimed at hobbyists.
Celestron’s 44302 handheld digital USB microscope costs less than $50, and can take 1.3MP images at 10x to 40x and 150x. Veho also offers a digital microscope camera, the VMS004DELUXE, which offers similar functionality at a slightly higher pricepoint.
No, they won’t provide high quality images like these, but from what I’ve seen, their performance is decent, especially given their pricepoint.
Celestron Digital USB Microscope Camera via Amazon
Veho Digital USB Microscope via Amazon
Product Info via Celestron
Product Info via Veho
Merry says
Digi-Scope is an easy to use, high resolution, hand-held digital microscope with a USB interface featuring auto-focus. http://digiworldstore.com