From the days of yore, microscope has gradually developed its features in many ways and now we can find high featured compound microscope which has magnifying powers of 1,000 to 2,000X. Since it has its own light source this compound light microscope also known as Bright Field Microscope. When it is called bright field microscope it simply means that the sample what you want to check can be lit from below and observed from above and it is because the compound light microscope is made of more than one lens.