It switches to grey because it's probably footage from a scanning electron microscope. The video just makes it look like it's done with an optical scope only, which isn't correct.

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So the different scales of magnification are genuine but they were assembled into one video?

The way in which more detailed structures almost suddenly appear out of uniform grey instead of becoming visible gradually makes it look staged to me.

That's what I reckon, yeah