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Finally, an amateur microscopy book up-to-date with our modern world to introduce children, teenagers, and adults to a fantastic hobby and pastime. Learn how to buy a microscope, how to use it, what to look at, how to photograph & video what you find. The author founded one of the most established Hobby Microscopy sites on the web. Here is a book which exceeds the vision of other microscopy books for newbies and young people. Clear practical guide to everything you need to get started at any age.

And if you are a teenager or older person wanting to get started, a whole section (half the book) brings the hobby into the digital age. The cobwebs covering older microscopy books are swept away as this book barges through and connects the pastime and pursuit of amateur microscopy in the past to the digital age of today. Learn how to make professional looking microscopy videos or take huge image photographs using budget microscopes and limited resources.

Make stunning 3D images of microscopic creatures and plants or macro 3D images of insects. Not only a practical guide to the hobby today but an inspirational guide to help new people taking up the hobby use new techniques, materials, and safe methods to make their own slides and share their discoveries with others across the worldwide web.

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    Andrew Trim

    5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant buy for beginners with a brain!

    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 July 2014

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    Having stumbled across the excellent website run by the author of this book, I found myself in precisely the position envisaged by this publication - a complete beginner looking to discover something about the use of the microscope as an intelligent hobby. Until Mol Smith came along, many of the books available on microscopes were either (a) impossibly dated and hopelessly out-of-print [while having a certain vintage charm in their own right, reading about Victorian techniques in Victorian english is a rather specialist interest!] or (b) fun, colourful, engaging... and clearly aimed at very young children. This book falls into neither category. It is up-to-date (with internet sites recommended and modern methods and equipment used) and squarely aimed at readers who possess a brain and are not afraid to use it! I would guess a bright teenager might be the ideal reader, but a middle-aged beginner like me can learn a great deal without being in any way patronised. Indeed the concluding sections of the book which deal with advances in digital photography, 3D imaging, and the production of videos... are all areas where a bright teenager might be well ahead of the average adult anyway!

    The style is uncomplicated and clear and the approach is methodical and down-to-earth. Here you can learn what sort of microscopes are worth buying, and where to obtain quality equipment. There are money-saving tips for those on a tight budget, and a real sense of progression in both skills and equipment as you read through the book. I have no doubt this will be a book to refer to again and again at the microscope in the future. I look forward to Mol's next publication with enthusiasm - a workbook of projects and experiments for hobby microscopists perhaps? All in all a book like this leaves me with one pressing question: why is there no T.V. show dedicated to microscopy as there is to astronomy? Mol Smith has demonstrated the huge potential of microscopy as a hobby; this book and his website microscopyuk are highly recommended as the best place to start.

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