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Any experience
Hearsay rather than experience, but a few YouTube machinists I follow proselytise about cheap Chinesium digital camera microscopes for inspection on the same scale as you're working with.
Not necessarily this exact one, but this pattern and price range
https://www.amazon.co.uk/TOMLOV-Microscope-Magnification-Ultra-Precise-Compatible/dp/B08G4Y6C65/
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jellybaby
Anyone work with really small things and have opinions on magnification aids?
I'm attempting to solder some surface mount things and they are really tiny. I find it very hard to see which side is which on an 0805 LED and I can't tell which pin is 1 on an SO16 package.
Options seem to be an illuminated magnifying glass on an arm / head mounted lenses / some sort of microscope. Any experience one way or another?