Excellent iver the top quality. So much to see and learn with a triniculer microscopes . I'm beyond impressed with this. Easy 5 stars.

This is a great microscope. It takes some getting used to, but it works great. Im not sure about the 'laboratory grade' as the one at my work costs about the same as a new car, but it surely is plenty good for a school or hobbyist. It comes with everything you need to view anything from a bug to a blood sample. It really is quite versatile. The adjustments and settings are all solid, each clicks in place properly and rotates smoothly. The eye pieces are easily swapped and clearly labeled to avoid confusion. I can recommend this to anyone looking for a quality microscope at a fantastic price.

This microscope is extremely well made. The optics and lighting are outstanding. It has two lights: one on the bottom, and a second on top for viewing opaque objects.

It has multiple eyepieces, slides, and laboratory tools, as well as a cell phone mount for photography. I'm sorry it didn't come with the USB adapter so that it can be connected to a computer.

The write-up states that this is for adults, but I can certainly see it being used by older kids and teens. Unlike cheap microscopes, which can be frustrating to use, this one is actually fun.

The manual is pretty good, even if the English is a bit fractured.

Nice beginner microscope. Nice scope for teach my sons the basics in biology with. The accessories and microscope fit all into an included case as well so it is easy to pack away or bring on our trips to national parks so that we can look at what kind of fauna we see in the natural natural water sources.

This is an amazing microscope! One of the best I’ve ever used. You definitely get the value for your money because the quality and performance of it is impeccable. It is very easy to adjust and has a great magnification on it. It gives a clear image and I would recommend this to anyone. 4⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

For a beginner / student microscope, up to and including high school level, this is an excellent starter microscope with halfway decent optics and decent illumination at lower mag levels.

The problem is it simply lacks the LED power to give proper illumination at higher magnification levels, which get darker and darker the closer you try to get. I may try to stick a more power LED in it at some point to make it more capable at higher mag levels.

In all, it's decent. The optics aren't "pro-level", I've used pro-level, and this ain't it. You'll need to drop a few more dollars for that. But it's certainly better than an off-the-shelf kids microscope from the local hobby shop or big box store by an order of magnitude, and if you want to encourage a love of science in a young person, giving them this much more capable instrument would go a long way towards fostering an interest in the sciences than a junk instrument from a big box store, which would do more to ruin it than help it grow. I give it 4 stars, more LED power and slightly better optics would get it a 5.

I was skeptical for the price. This is a very nice microscope! I have a more expensive one. This microscope rivals it very closely if not better for some features. The camera and software are great. More than I expected. I could see things maybe 100th the size of a blood cell easily. I need to learn what they are. They are smaller than a blood platelet. They move around. I have yet to explore up to 5000x with this microscope. I don't think I'll be disappointed. I wasn't really expecting it to be as good as it is! I'm very pleased.

While I wouldn't say this is a lab quality microscope, this is a lot more sophisticated than the one I had as a kid, probably for around the same price (taking into account inflation).
There's a lot that this microscope has that are higher tier features and they're very helpful.
For one, it's got an adjustable pupillary distance. However, it does not have a diopter adjustment which I was surprised by.
The entire stage doesn't move, but the clips holding the slide on the stage do, controlled with knobs for X and Y. A moveable stage is better, but this works.
It comes with a light on both the top and bottom. The light on the top doesn't really work for the 40X and higher lens because the lens is too close to the object. And it's a single light so it casts shadows. It would be better if there was a pair of lights mounted on flexible stalks. The lights do have adjustable brightness with a knob and the light underneath also has an adjustable aperture. I feel like they could be brighter. You can run the light off batteries or plugged in.
There's a coarse and fine focus and these work well and smoothly.
In addition to the normal eyepieces, there's a third slot for a camera, and the microscope comes with one. It also comes with a mini-CD with the software and instructions that suggest overriding your virus software if it detects a virus. Um, no thank you (and I haven't had a CD drive in years). The camera is USB and just plugging it in caused it to be treated as a camera and I could open any video app to use it. It worked pretty well. As expected the depth of field is very, very small. See the attached photos of the provided leaf slide, a color print at different magnifications, and the scales of a moth's wing.
The microscope comes with two 2X inserts and you can use one of these with the camera, although the diameter isn't quite right and it's very loose. But it does work and gives you more flexibility with the camera which is helpful.
A few things I didn't like - the eyepieces felt incredibly cheap. They're plastic and lightweight and wobble a bit in the microscope. The eyepiece housing is also plastic, as are the focus knobs. The main body of the scope is metal and it would have been nice if these pieces were metal too. I've already mentioned the lighting. While the eyepieces definitely offered a clearer view than the camera, the camera image was brighter so it worked better for some things. The camera picture was not as crisp as it could be and a bit grainy. I've already mentioned the light and the missing diopter adjustment. The higher range of magnification is hard to use (impossible for top lit specimens), there's so little depth of field and the fine focus is just a bit sticky.
The included accessories are great - there's some demo slides and a slide preparation kit, two pairs of eyepieces (10x and 25x) plus a 2X adapter, and a simple cellphone mount for taking photos/video that way too.
Overall, I think this is a nice tool of good quality. The biggest flaws (poor top lighting and a mediocre camera) could be remedied with add-ons as you need. I think this would be great for middle school age range and up.
It comes with an instruction book, but it's just something printed on a printer (and the color toner is running a bit low I think) and stapled together. Not very professional, but at least it's something which is more than you sometimes get.
My experience with the case is mixed. I like that it's a soft, lightweight case. I don't feel like the foam is going to stand the test of time though. The scope doesn't always easily come out of the foam and it doesn't seem very durable.

This is a complex device to review because light magnification is a complex undertaking. And it has taken many centuries to perfect. So let me just cover a few issues that I think you should know about before buying.

There are many nice things about this instrument. It has a metal limb or frame: it comes with a number of lenses; it also comes with a phone holder/viewer (more about that later); an electronic lens for attaching the microscope to a computer (more about that later); it has two light sources - above and below depending upon whether the specimen is opaque or not; it has two power sources for the light, battery or plug-in; it has a nice carrying case.

Some issues: because my phone has multiple lenses, the phone hookup which I was hopeful would be useful did not work well for me. I sometimes have difficulty looking through lenses, even a binocular type as here. I could not get my phone to work with this instrument. So I was going to try the electronic lens that attaches to a computer but the software is contained on a three inch disc - my iMac does not have a disc reader. I searched the house and our office to see if I still had a disc reader around and could not find one. So I cannot, sadly review the use of the electronic lens - something I had high hopes for. It would be more useful for the manufuacture to put the software on a thumb drive or perhaps make it possible to download it. I could barely understand the directions for using the lens in any event so I may have missed alternative methods (if they exist) of downloading the software. The parts of the directions for using the disc that I could understand hinted that even using the disc was sketchy - there was mention of your anti-viral software being alerted. Hmm. That is concerning.

The lenses seem to work nicely, but as you know as magnification decreases the field of view and thus the amount of light moving through the specimen goes down. There is an iris on this instrument (under the staging area there is a wheel that you can turn with holes in it that lets in more or less light from the light source) but there is no condenser (a device that concentrates the light so that the specimen has more or less contrast). So that is an issue if you plan on using the highest magnification settings.

As to what else is included that is clearly listed in Kentfaith’s material concerning this instrument and I don’t need to waste your time going over that here. Overall it is a nice instrument - it does make some compromises and you have to decide if those compromises are important to you or not. For everyday field use (looking at pond water, etc.) this is a very nice instrument and will serve you well. For very serious lab work, etc. this will not do.

This looks nice, I got 1 set of lenses to work, can’t get the IPhone adapter to work right… all those little tools that comes with it are CHEAP PLASTIC, not worth messing with them at all… the knob that raises it uUp & Down is really hard to adjust, but maybe in time it will become easier