One of the basic microscopy techniques is known as ”widefield microscopy”. Fundamentally, widefield means the entire specimen or sample is exposed to the light source with the resulting image being viewed by the observer either via the eyepieces or on a monitor connected to a digital camera. More @Wikipedia
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