What are the Different Types of Stereo Microscopes?
Stereo microscopes are also known as stereomicroscopes, inspection microscopes, and dissection microscopes. They look similar to binocular compound microscopes, but they have an essential difference. A binocular compound microscope has one objective and a matching pair of eyepieces. A prism is used to split the beam of light from the image formed by the objective to each eye. This is not the same as a stereo microscope, even though it has two eyepieces.