My kids really enjoy this microscope. The camera on it allows them to take pictures of what they see. It was easy for them to figure out how to use it. It makes a great gift

I was very impressed by this hand-held microscope. Very easy to use, excellent handling, fast focus and video or photos. It showed me something very interesting. And the price is reasonable. The Savior! If you're looking for a handheld microscope, don't hesitate any longer. This is the best!

This hand-held children's microscope works very well. It's easy to use. The overall structure looks solid, and it makes the hidden microbial world visible. Whether your child is interested in studying insects, plants, or other tiny objects, this microscope can provide an up-close and personal perspective that inspires curiosity and fosters scientific inquiry. Great value.

It's certainly not a professional-quality microscope, but it's not intended to be. It's a toy and a pretty good one. It's small, light, and will fit a child's hand well, and is simple to use. It comes with a mini SD card installed, a USB C cord for charging and connecting to a computer, and several microscopic slides containing such things as dandelion fuzz and goldfish scales.

It has built-in LED lights to light up whatever you're looking at and the brightness level is adjustable. Magnification is 100X to 1000X and there is a conveniently located focus wheel. It even functions as a camera and a telescope, which is fun.

The viewing screen flips out from the side. The screen is tiny, but, with a little fiddling with the focus wheel, the image is relatively clear. Images can be saved as either photos or videos or watched live on the screen or on a computer screen when attached via the USB cord.

The unit is plastic, and although it seems sturdy enough I doubt if it would survive a drop onto a hard surface. There is a hand strap on the side to help prevent drops and steady the unit.

Overall, it's a good child's toy with some cool features and most kids interested in studying the natural world should be fascinated with it.

The microscope is an excellent way to get you excited about science. Being able to see the minute details and even be surprised about the characteristics of things I use everyday is incredible. This product offers value but it does equally show in the build quality, however it does perform admirably. I would recommend this as the ease of use and good results provide a great experience.

This was up and running within a few minutes. Comes with a memory card to allow you to start using it right out of the box. I did have a complaint about the film that comes over the screen - when I removed that the glue came off the black boarder around the screen itself. This pulled up the protective screen itself from around the display, this left it unprotected. Thankfully my kids are old enough to know this shouldn't happen and be played with. However a younger kid this could pose a problem, and should be noted. It comes with 5 slides with some things to get you started with things to look at this was also a nice little bonus. Overall not a bad little item.

It is great for curious minds. I don’t care how old or young you are, looking at tiny things is fun. So many nice features and easy to use. Only drawback, it seems a little pricey.

I'm impressed. If you took the guts out of a handheld digital camera and joined them with a handheld field microscope, you'd have this. They did a good job. The sound effect output doesnt appear to turn off, that's really my only complaint. The strap is really good even. LEDs are awesome and have 6 brightness modes, plus off for ambient/side/back lighting. With a USB C data cable you can use it like a webcam, just plug it in and go, capture with which ever application you prefer.

The image quality is very good for an inexpensive sensor. It captures still images and video at 1280x720. Magnification is excellent, and the field is super distortion-free oddly enough. Check out my test images. The brass wire mesh filter has had no lens correction applied to it. Unlike old microscopes, the entire field of view is usable. I loaded up ImageJ, a professional microscopy suite, and did some image processing with it, the quality of the camera is more than good enough to do simple analysis. With a little effort, you could actually learn to do some image processing with it's output. I show the results of this in the video and images.

At the same time, this thing is so intuitive and easy to use, I think your average 5+ year old can get it figured out. It's definitely rugged enough to drag around outside and throw in a toy box. There is a microSD card, mine came with a 32GB card. If you're worried about junior inhaling SDs or something, you could remove it and just not save images, or put a drop of glue over that card to lock it in place.

Turn it on before plugging into your PC for camera mode, or it will enter charging mode and present a USB storage device for the microSD card.

Buy two so you can let your kid play with one. ;)

* notes about images *
The targets are a US half dollar coin, a brass wire mesh filter, and a juvenile female spider approximately 1cm in body length. These images are straight out of the microscope with no post-processing.

The greyscale image is an extended depth of field frame stack using b-spline wavelets to extend the focal depth, it is NOT straight out of the microscope. Video demonstrates 12 frames aligned, cropped, and registered using SIFT processing algorithm. Gives you an idea of what focusing through the field looks like.

My little boy loved it!

I bought this for our inspiring scientist's 9-year-old nephew, who uses it every day, and it comes with some amazing pre-made slides! ! !