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Are they really distorted though? I wonder if it's an artifact of trying to image a light source, maybe caused by the display not being perfectly level to the microscope stage.

I ask because some of the images really do look perfect with sharp edges (the 3DS, the PSP), compared to the blobs of light you see on the other ones.

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The OpenPandora shot doesn't look sharp because it has an anti-glare coating. Some of the others may be a bit too bright for the cheap microscope I'm using, so they're a bit blurry. But mostly, the pixels really do look that way; most of them aren't rectangular at all.

Thanks for the pics! Since you have these devices and can simply count up the number of pixels and divide by the size of the display, would you please consider photoshopping in scale bars to reflect the length of some unit of measure?

The pictures are less than 1mm wide. I've added a grey bar that approximates 1mm at the same scale at the top of the post to give a sense of the scale. Does that help?

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