Abstract: A microscope apparatus manufacturable at a low cost, and equipped with a photographing device assuring coincidence between an image to be observed and an image to be photographed, correctly photographing the up-down and right-left directions of a sample with no switching operation and permitting correct readout of characters, etc. written on a sample, a macro observation or drawing attachment permitting observation of the entire surface of a sample even of a large size without fail, not degrading operability of the microscope and having a composition to facilitate correction of image rotation, and a data imprinting device providing legible imprinted data images and capable of shifting data imprinting position on the film surface of the photographing device.