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"But you should never trust an optics lesson that seems simple. How could it be when the image we're seeing is the product of so many things at once, some tangible like a lens, other much less so. What is less tangible than light, which is, as we've seen before on this channel--a very strange thing. We cannot touch it, but we can manipulate it, using what we know of the way it travels and bends and reflects to see our world differently. But light... has its limits."

Journey to the Microcosmos- We Dipped Our Lens in Oil to See More Detail

Images Originally Captured by Jam's Germs

"So our 100x objectie and 1.3 numberical aperture can reach a maximum of 1300x magnificaiton depending on your eyepiece. With our 10x eyepiece, we get 1000x magnification, and it works great. If we tried to get more from this set-up by increasing the magnification of our eyepiece to 20x, we could actually get 2000x, magnificaiton. Because of the constraints of our numberical aperture, we would just be losing half of our image without actually gaining more detail in what's left to see."

Journey to the Microcosmos- We Dipped Our Lens in Oil to See More Detail