Carson Microbrite LED Lighted 20-40x Childrens Microscope with 2 Slides and Base Stand, Green

I was nervous about this purchase. So many microscopes for children are flimsy and fiddly, offering impractical magnifications that attract but are virtually unusable. Far better to be in the 10-50x range than the 200-500x. This product is excellent for the scale of thing that a young child might want to look at. The optics are good, the LED light works well, the whole thing feels robust and it could be carried easily on a country walk. Supervision is needed, especially in the use of slides and cover slips, though they are plastic. I bought it as a Christmas present for my youngest granddaughter. The picture shows me setting a slide up for her. (Water from the saucer of a plant pot. She did other, dry, objects herself. Session 1: leaves and onion layers - cells seen and described. Session 2: the dirty water as mentioned. Even though in winter and after a lot of rain, we managed to see some swimming single-cell organisms - probably Euglena. Her observations of these were spot on. Great product - not a toy microscope - a genuine introduction to another world.

Bought this for my nine-year-old son primarily for the microscope. It works really well and gives enough magnification to see astonishing details in everything from carpets to bugs. It's a lot better than a more conventional microscope, which we've found hard to use and easy to break. The other features range from useful to unnecessary. The telescope functions pretty well, although we haven't used it outdoors yet. The magnifying glass and whistle are handy; the torch is OK, but the compass and clock feel a bit superfluous.

Good magnification just wish you did not have to hold the light button on all the time when inspecting small things. I have another one with higher magnification same brand as they are excellent. A switch would better and more logical. You get a thin slice of glass also with it you can put little things on, sorry don't know the technical name for this. All round a good fairly robust little scope that kids can use and big adults to explore a new and exciting microscopic world.

The X scope is a great toy for interested inquisitive little hands and minds. The very fact they have managed to cram seven functions into one toy is quite an achievement . All the functions are very good and work well and some perform above expendations. 1. The whistle , what I loved about this is you can hear it but it's not going to get you looking for a hammer to terminate the annoying noise. It's loud enough for my grandson to warn me that the zombie hoards are approaching , but not to loud ar shrill tha the neighbors will complain. 2. The microscope , I was very impressed by its simplicity and its function. Just adjust the light and take a look as we did at a dead wood louse and it looked like an armoured dinosaur from a science fiction film ,you could see clearly every detail even the tiny hairs on the legs . My little grandson was absolutely amazed , he spent hours looking for things to inspect around the garden. 3. The torch is a small bulb led light. It's not going to light up a room but great for a little boy to go in his blanket den. 4. The pirate telescope as my grandson called it has a good magnification ,again it's not gong to replace your lika binoculars to go twitching. But for a five year old boy it's powerful enough to look for pirates on the high seas or look for granddads jack Russell down the garden. 5. The clock is a great little aid to help a boy or girl learn the time. 6. I have now got a better sense of where everything is placed in my house and garden. My little explorer loves the compass he checks the direction of everything and is making a treasure map using his compass. 7. Last but not least a magnifying glass which makes checking things quickly before putting them under the microscope. It's a great educational , fun , toy. Like all toys of this nature it's not a toy you can give to a child and let him get on with it as he would proberly but it down after a few minutes. However if you take time to explain and demonstrate what it can do , your child like my grandson will get hours of fun from this inexpensive educational toy. Well worth every penny hours of fun and exploration for very little outlay.

On the plus side it's well made, ie sturdy, and when looking at the object being studied the image is pretty sharp. However, the eyepiece is small and the magnification is a maximum of 40x (you can vary it from 20x to 40x). You can place the small object being studied into the base, although I found it easier to dispense with the base and slide the microscope over whatever you're looking at. Bear in mind it only cost me £10 on Amazon, so it's definitely value for money. It could certainly spark curiosity in small children, and you might then decide to splash out on a more sophisticated microscope with greater magnification.

Excellent nice kit. Kids loved it. Love taking it with them

We bought these through our school PTA for class gifts at Christmas and they've been really popular. The images you get are very impressive and are just as fascinating for the adults are they are the children. It is small and compact, so could be easily carried around if you wanted to take it outdoors to explore nature. The light works well. Good value item.

Very useful tool for adults interested in entomology, makes looking at insects a lot easier and faster without running out of space in my pockets filled with individual tools! The telescope is okay, a little dark but it works, and the microscope is very good! probably the best handheld microscope there is on the market! Torch is pretty powerful too,and the whistle is very loud!

I bought both this product, Carson MicroBrite 20x-40x LED Lighted Pocket Microscope for Learning, Education and Exploring (MM-24, MM-24MU) and the higher magnification sibling, Carson MicroBrite Plus 60x-120x Power LED Lighted Pocket Microscope (MM-300) . Both are inexpensive, and overall, I'm happy with them. I liked the lower powered one better because it comes with base that has a glass slide holder. The image quality is surprisingly good for the price. It is easy to use, however, I would have preferred if the control for magnification and focus were switched, i.e., have the focus with a twisting dial at the bottom and a lever to change the magnification, like in the higher magnification model (60-100x). I also prefer the other model's light, which stays on until you click the button, and the AA battery. However, although it may sound like I like the other model better than this, I actually like the 20-40x model better because of the removable base and it being more useful to look at a wide range of objects. I am a researcher and have access to research-grade microscopes. This inexpensive microscope does not replace a research microscope. However, it is a great entry microscope that may be useful, say, for a field trip in a college-level class, like my Invertebrate Zoology or Parasitology classes. I may order a bunch of this scopes for my classes to take to the beach or field. A few things could be better: as mentioned above, the focus could be better if it were on a twisting dial and the battery could stay on, and with a larger battery (e.g., AA). It would also be useful if it could capture the image (but adding a camera it would increase considerably the cost); alternatively, it would be more useful if it could be attached to a cell phone camera, since cell phones are ubiquitous and take great photos. And a small detail: the scope could have a ring or loop so that it could be wore on a chain or lanyard like a jeweler's loupe (the 60-100x model has it). As others have suggested, it would be a great gift to a child who may be interested in sciences. And being so inexpensive, it is a low risk investment. This scope is much easier to use and has better image quality that other simple microscopes that I have seen. I highly recommend it.

M gusto todo, es maravilloso para las excursiones con mi princesa,vemos🕵️ todos los insectos incluso el más pqeño,ahh m sirvió para quitarle el miedo a los insectos 😉,la verdad todos deberíamos tener uno en casa.👍🏽

Sure, they're not expensive. But even for that price I expected more than two wobbly toiletpaper rolls with no magnification.

La compre para sustituir una que se me daño. Es un poco màs grande que la que tenia, pero buena construcción y buen aumento para un lente de mesa de mapas.

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