Kind of Microscopes

Compound Light Microscope, a microscope that allows light to pass through a specimen and uses two lenses to form an image.

Pros:

• Compound light microscope is cheaper thatn any of the two electron microscopes
• It is more portable and didn't rely on electricity
• It is movable since it is not too big
• can observe living cell
• colorful image

Cons:

• Has a less magnification compared to electron microscopes
• Need to adjust the light first every time we are going to use it
• can't observe things that are really small

There are 2 kinds of electron microscopes. Transmission electron microscopes and Scanning electron microscopes. Transmission electron microscope is a microscope that shine a beam of electron to reveal a wealth of detail inside the cell. Scannig electron microscope is a microscope that scan a narrow beacm of electrons back and forth acroos the surface of a specimen to produce realistic, and often dramatic, 3-d images of the surfaces of projects.

Transmission Electron Microscope

 Scanning electron microscope

Pros :

• has a way bigger magnification compared to light microscope
• can provide more detail and a more dramatic image compared to light microscope
• can be connected to a computer and use it to analyze the data in monitor

Cons:

• can only observe dead cell
• black and white cell
• rely on electricity
• not movable because of the size

source : (biology textbook and google search for the images)