The microviper is a fully portable microscope system that uses the latest CCD Camera technology to display magnified images on its high contrast integral LCD screen. Utilizing advanced miniaturization technology the head of the unit is kept to a size not much larger than a conventional pen, this allows the user to point and shoot and gain a highly detailed image of any surface a up to 1000x magnification. Typical applications include the study of items in-situ or too large to fit under a conventional microscope. In addition to displaying high magnification images on screen the Microviper can capture images and save them to its own internal disk drive for further image processing or transfer to a PC