Carson Pocket Micro 20x-60x LED Pocket Microscope Handheld STEM Toy (MM-450)

So much fun for your tiny adventurers and scientists! Great quality for the price, very affordable. Literally fits in your pocket. Remember this is only a 20x-60x magnification microscope, so it’s not going to be comparable to a regular microscope but works well, focuses nicely, excellent for on the go observations and learning. My kindergarten is in love and always on the hunt for things to look at with it!

Very impressive for the price and easy to use.

For $16 ok. Takes some practice to use.

Works good, however best suited for use on a table. Hard to see sears with this thing.

Good little thing you can see bugs kids love it

Fine build - the clear plastic could be a little better. The light switch could be switched on and not momentary requiring you to keep your finger pressed in one position.DOUBLE DIFFICULT because you're working with A MIRROR IMAGE. Totally unintuitive having the image go the wrong way while you're trying to align and find and focus the subject by tilting and lifting and sliding simultaneously at such a high a power.If I had known all that - I would have spared myself the pain.It's also not the best mag range - it's high, which is useful, but very hard to align, and half the max would probably be just as useful for daily use on slivers and such.. I'm not looking for bacteria.

LOOKS BETTER to the naked eye than in the pictures. Seems you can only get your phone to focus so well on the subject through the lens. And speaking of taking photos -- it's definitely a pain! Every tiny movement of the microscope and your phone changes what it sees, auto focus really struggles, and auto brightness often blows out detail in the picture. I find I have to adjust ISO, shutter speed, and manual focus to get a decent pic, all while trying to move the phone and microscope as little as possible. But I don't hold that against this microscope. There are other more expensive ones that eliminate those problems, but this is great for a cheap thing to carry around and look at cool bugs with or whatever. The focus wheel is fairly stiff on mine but it's manageable. It's amazing how much detail you can see with even just 20× magnification! I feel like I need an eye patch keeping one eye closed this whole time though. Haha

I had multiple problems with this microscope. First, there was some particle stuck inside the scope between the two lenses that was making vision partially blocked. That is a manufacturing defect. The second problem is that instead of a ring light coming down from the edges of the lens onto your subject, the light is coming off from the side, ruining the ability to get light directly onto any object that is not perfectly flat. I was trying to read the laser etch grading on the edge of a diamond stone and it was virtually impossible to get light on it. The third problem is that it is so shielded, it needs the light to see anything, so you must use your own bright light coming in from the sides. Fourth, it comes without a AA battery. Fifth, it has a lanyard hole but comes with no lanyard. I am returning.