When I took botany and taxonomy of vascular plants in college, we spent many an hour poring over specimens under dissecting microscopes pulled with tweezers from smelly jars of preserving liquid. (scientificamerican.com)
An automated dissecting microscope with color digital camera allows the imaging of large unmounted samples with brightfield and / or fluorescence illumination. (lerner.ccf.org)
He brought along a dissecting microscope hooked up to a video camera, a set - up he used to view plankton collected along the way. (sciencemag.org)