Just did this myself. Today, definitely buy the industrial camera 'zoom tube' type. Upsides: HMDI out, straight to your TV. Should include an adjustable ring L

Just did this myself. Today, definitely buy the industrial camera 'zoom tube' type. Upsides: HMDI out, straight to your TV. Should include an adjustable ring LED with the scope. Real time images (ie. video of moving things), smooth zoom (so you don't lose the subject), >100-200x magnification, and at very low cost. Inherently social. Better models allow saving of stills or images, but I'd say avoid that and go cheap, just take images of the screen with a mobile phone or buy an HDMI capture device if your really want to add that later. The actual microscope places hate this product category, because it undercuts their out of date lowball analog optical microscopes. The downsides are that you can't use conventional objectives, you don't know precise magnification at midpoint positions if you want to do subject measurement, and you can't do some of the fancier stuff ... but then again lowball analog optical microscopes can't either. See https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/reviews-of-digital-microscopes-for-insects/28295/23 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/reviews-of-digital-microscop... for examples and discussion.