A split-field photo of cartridge casings through the lens of firearm examiner Michael Haag’s comparison microscope. Haag said he determined the casing on the left, recovered as evidence of a crime, ...

Finally, comparison microscopes (Figure 4d) were often used in forensics, for example to compare fingerprints or bullets by eye before the advent of digital microscopy, which allowed images to be ...

Widely considered the most common type of microscope, Optical Microscopes magnify visible light to allow for the examination of features too small for the naked eye. This kind of microscope is ...

To explore the meaning of inter-instrumentality, Chris Toumey provided samples of his blood and hair to be imaged by four different types of microscope. Here he describes the results. Before people ...

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Sometimes referred to as dissecting microscopes, stereo microscopes provide a three-dimensional view of a specimen by using two separate objective lenses and eyepieces. While these microscopes tend to ...