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SOME INFORMATION ABOUT HAIR ANALYSIS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

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Recently we heard from folks in several locations who wanted to offer microscopic hair analysis for their customers. This make sense because hairs are pretty narrow so any kind of visual analysis requires a microscope. These entrepreneurs want to provide consultations based on their microscopic analysis of hairs that customers provide them. Being microscope experts, we thought we would help these hair experts out by working through which microscope system, objective lenses and camera combination would best perform that job. Obviously, high-end research microscopes and other kinds of microscopes such as Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM) can provide enormous amounts of detail, but those are way too expensive for most folks who want to start a hair product and analysis business. Given that, we first had to decide between a stereo microscope and a compound microscope. The stereo microscope provides a lot of working distance, but because you can only get about 90x magn...