AmScope FR-BL Bausch & Lomb B&L Stereo Microscope E-Arm

hello up until this point we've been struggling a little bit with microscopes for soldering work with surface mount components i'll show you the uh things i've been using so far and then let's move on to a new professional microscope which is going to be much better suited to the task this has been the microscope i've used for a lot of work where i need to see in some detail down to high magnifications it's a lovely piece of kit but it's pretty old and one of the big limitations of this is the distance here is limited now i need to be able to do soldering work uh and i need to be able to get the microscope head far enough up that i can put my work on the preheater which i've shown you earlier so this kind of arrangement isn't really suitable for soldering there's not enough room in here for soldering smd components here's a little usb microscope i bought recently and it comes with this