Hi Graham – Welcome to the forum and glad to hear you are getting great results right off the starting line :woohoo:
I have two lighted loupes that I use the most – 1 30x and 1 45x. They are great for quick in the clamp examination – and for extra lighting which I use them for even more often as my eyes seem to be aging much faster lately.
I also use a veho USB microscope 400x – VMS-004 (though I don’t use it as much as I’d like). It was pretty inexpensive and works pretty well for me – though I do want to get a better stand, the little one it comes with is not very versatile. Hoping to find time to use it to capture some progressions at some point