A split-field photo of cartridge casings through the lens of firearm examiner Michael Haag’s comparison microscope. Haag said he determined the casing on the left, recovered as evidence of a crime, ...

Finally, comparison microscopes (Figure 4d) were often used in forensics, for example to compare fingerprints or bullets by eye before the advent of digital microscopy, which allowed images to be ...

Wilmer Souder, a physicist and early forensic scientist at the National Bureau of Standards, now NIST, compares two bullets using a comparison microscope. Souder learned forensic techniques from ...

Widely considered the most common type of microscope, Optical Microscopes magnify visible light to allow for the examination of features too small for the naked eye. This kind of microscope is ...

Sometimes referred to as dissecting microscopes, stereo microscopes provide a three-dimensional view of a specimen by using two separate objective lenses and eyepieces. While these microscopes tend to ...