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I want to see our little helpers lactic bacteria and yeasts and may be take pictures of them and show them to kids. What sort of cheap microscope with a camera atttachment will accomplish this?

I looked at http://www.lowestpricemicroscopes.com but there are way too many choices for a person who doesn't know anything about microscopes.

Gurkan- sounds like a good learning tool for your kids. Probably on the expensive side though. Any experience in staining and reading gram stains? You will have to stain them to be able to read the smears with grams stain- and then there is the nuances of the cellular morphology. I have a couple scopes left over from my time in the lab but neither of them are set up for photography.

I don't have any experience staining 

So I can't chuck some pieces of cheese on those glass plates and have a look through the microscope to see little bacteria?

Is there a fool proof doco somewhere I can read?