WillyCKH said: I want to save up money and get a nice microscope, which should give us much better pictures Click to expand...

What you'd need is a cheap USB mikroscope with ring LEDs for 20 bucks. Even with the best microscope you can't get past the depth of field without stacking. So take a series of pictures with focus scanning ($ remote-manual focus would be good) and process these with some stacking software (Picolay and combineZP are freeware or $ try more conveniently Zerene). You can already get pretty good results with this. For the next level try to construct a monster like this (with stackshot controller, stepper motor, professional microscope, DSLR, vibration isolation, and so on.)