OK, if you want to get a very high quality digital caliper or digital micrometer as a decent price, then Mitutoyo all the way. I mean, ok, it's still quite expensive, but the engineering guys that I used to work with all recommended this to me when I was in the search. I used to have the vernier calipers (non-digital) and you would have to line up the lines that match on the scale to figure out what number you had. Big pain in the butt when you just want to measure some things quickly. No muss, no fuss.