What is the highest magnification of a light microscope?

Other answers are correct. But there exist “tricks” to achieve even higher magnification. Okay, it is tricky, it is “cheating” but it is optical microscopy using light. read more

Compound Light Microscope Optics, Magnification and Uses **With Links to MicroscopeMaster Buyer's Guides** A compound light microscope is a microscope with more than one lens and its own light source. In this type of microscope, there are ocular lenses in the binocular eyepieces and objective lenses in a rotating nosepiece closer to the specimen. read more

When using a high power microscope (also known as a compound microscope) it is best to start out with the lowest magnification, get your specimen in focus, and then move up to the higher magnifications one at a time. read more

The maximum useful magnification of a light microscope is 1,500x. Electron microscopes can magnify images up to 200,000x. Magnification on a Microscope. read more