12-12-2018, 01:07 AM
600X would be more than sufficient. That scope may do an OK job of showing you small burrs and LOW.
That said, I could be mistaken but I doubt that scope is 600X optical resolution. At true 600X optical magnification the field of view would be very small, much less then 1 mm.
It's difficult to explain, but there is a difference between optical microscope magnification and magnification as displayed on a monitor.
What you want to look for, and what is rarely provided in digital microscope specs is "optical magnification. Instead what is often given is something like 300X on a 16" monitor. This way of looking at it means that if you have a 32" monitor the scope would be 600X because the 32" monitor is 2X larger than a 16" monitor.
So, if you took the same image and displayed it on a highway billboard, you could say the magnification is 10,000X!
The important thing to understand is that the sensor of the scope is some number of pixels wide and tall. That is the amount of data the optics of the scope provide. The optics of the scope magnify the subject and focus that data onto the sensor. That is optical magnification. What the optics of the scope focus on the sensor.
You can blow that data up on a larger and larger display but the amount of actual image pixels remains the same. Blow it up large enough and the image will start become grainy like looking at a newspaper under a magnifying glass. You can see the print dots that make up the image. Magnify it enough and all you will see is a bunch of dots.
Take any picture on your computer and start zooming into it with an image viewer. Very quickly it becomes grainy because the image contains a limited amount of data. If you have a 240x240 image you can't zoom in hardly at all, but if the image is 4,000x6000 there is enough image data to support more zooming.
Like I said, it is difficult to explain and will require you do considerable research to understand.
My guess is that scope is maybe 150X - 200X optical, but 300X when displayed on the monitor. But even that will more than likely show what you are looking for.
Another thing to consider is that 600X optical will have a very shallow depth of field, something like .2 um, so you will end up wanting to do focus stacking to show the whole burr and bevel. Research depth of field (DOF) and optical microscopes.
Hope that helps.
That said, I could be mistaken but I doubt that scope is 600X optical resolution. At true 600X optical magnification the field of view would be very small, much less then 1 mm.
It's difficult to explain, but there is a difference between optical microscope magnification and magnification as displayed on a monitor.
What you want to look for, and what is rarely provided in digital microscope specs is "optical magnification. Instead what is often given is something like 300X on a 16" monitor. This way of looking at it means that if you have a 32" monitor the scope would be 600X because the 32" monitor is 2X larger than a 16" monitor.
So, if you took the same image and displayed it on a highway billboard, you could say the magnification is 10,000X!
The important thing to understand is that the sensor of the scope is some number of pixels wide and tall. That is the amount of data the optics of the scope provide. The optics of the scope magnify the subject and focus that data onto the sensor. That is optical magnification. What the optics of the scope focus on the sensor.
You can blow that data up on a larger and larger display but the amount of actual image pixels remains the same. Blow it up large enough and the image will start become grainy like looking at a newspaper under a magnifying glass. You can see the print dots that make up the image. Magnify it enough and all you will see is a bunch of dots.
Take any picture on your computer and start zooming into it with an image viewer. Very quickly it becomes grainy because the image contains a limited amount of data. If you have a 240x240 image you can't zoom in hardly at all, but if the image is 4,000x6000 there is enough image data to support more zooming.
Like I said, it is difficult to explain and will require you do considerable research to understand.
My guess is that scope is maybe 150X - 200X optical, but 300X when displayed on the monitor. But even that will more than likely show what you are looking for.
Another thing to consider is that 600X optical will have a very shallow depth of field, something like .2 um, so you will end up wanting to do focus stacking to show the whole burr and bevel. Research depth of field (DOF) and optical microscopes.
Hope that helps.