AmScope SE100-ZZ Portable LED Stereo Microscope with 50X Magnifications

This is an awesome microscope - really surprisingly good even if it was twice the price. Way better than a mono scope for capturing kids interest - much easier to focus and get a clear & wide field of view. My eight year olds like it much more than the more powerful mono scope that really requires well prepared slides to get a good view of anything. This lets you pick up anything, drop it on the plate, and get a great view quickly. I'm very impressed with the value on this.

I bought this for my friends 9 year old daughter and she has loved it. The dual scope allows for ease of use and I bought it with 25 pre-prepared slides. It has great magnification and is built sturdy.

wouldn't properly focus. retuned with no problem

A very cool gift for a youngster and also for dad and grandpa. Purchased it as a gift for my 7 year old grandson. He loves it and immediately went search for bugs to look at under the scope. It only took a little bit of coaching to show him how to adjust the eyepieces and to focus it. The base is a little on the light (not heavy) side since it is plastic so it does feel a little tippy if you are thinking back to your high school and college days of using stereoscopes in the lab. But, the optics are very good for an inexpensive item and I think he will get many years of use out it.

I think the build quality is excellent. Does not drift when focused. Beautiful clarity and illumination when using it at 20x, but when you switch to the 25x eyepieces which gives you 50 power magnification, the clarity and illumination decrease dramatically. Kind of like looking at something inside a plastic sandwich baggie. If I held a small led flashlight (6 LEDs) up to the specimen, then that helped considerably, and even using two of those flashlights helped more and gave a nice view with illumination and clarity similar to the 20x magnification which uses the 10x eyepieces. Since the glass lens portion of the eyepieces is much larger in diameter for the 10x eyepiece than the 25x eyepiece, I imagine much more light can pass thru it explaining the differences. I'm keeping the unit since it is of high quality other than the lighting issue. Would give it 5 stars otherwise. Maybe any unit would be this waywhen increasing the magnification....I don't know.

nice stereo microscope, good quality and view

Besides getting older and slowly going blind, I still like to work on electronics,but trying to see the values of some components like small capacitors is very difficult; andwas not that easy when I could see better than most of my peers.This tool takes care of that.It is comfortable to use, easy to set up, and the light is more than bright enough to see thesubject part.It comes with a thick plastic cover (more like semi-clear rubber), batteries, rubber eye pieces,and two sets of lenses; 20X and 50X.I'm not sure if I will ever use the 50X, as the 20X is more than enough for my applications.The overall quality is acceptable, and it should last a long time.

Christmas gift!