What sort of microscope to buy a 16 year old for his birthday? Digital?

Nah...this will be quickly forgotten....keep a nine-year-old happy for a couple of weeks, You can do digital pics thro the eyepiece of a microscope real easy.Just put the lens close onto the eyepiece,zoom up to max,wait for it to focus,and press the on. Do it thro telescopes,too,very easy. It's called digiscoping,if you want to look it up. The bottom link is to UK stuff,you can get the same 'scopes in USA. It's proper stuff,not toys. Scroll down the page and look at the student microscopes. The others are top-dollar stuff. Another good firm is Konus.They do a big range of microscopes,telescopes,etc. Search Konus to find a local shop. Making the slides up is part of the fun with microscopes. Pretty easy after the first couple of times. I trained in a lab,and I've got good microscope stuff at home. Nice to have. Prices in UK are nearly twice USA prices,so what you see as Pounds here,you get for about that many Dollars. In the USA,Meade are a great firm-I used their telescopes for years. $99 gets you a Meade mic with loads of bits. Meade is an all American company with a world-wide reputation. Good solid company. Big outfit,sell world-wide.... Good deal.You could get a digital imager to put on it for a present another time.Check out the accessories link on the left of the page.It's a standard fitting ,fits all 'proper' mics,not toy ones.Proper ones all have standard size fittings both ends of the tube. .............a href="http://www.scopecity.com/detail.cfm?ProductID=4300&pn=Meade%20Hobbyist%2051-piece%20Microscope%20Kit+Meade+08018&sc=Student%20&%20Educational%20Use&tc=Microscopes..................." rel="nofollow"http://www.scopecity.com/detail.cfm?Prod…/a