The Carson MicroMax Portable Microscope is a powerful 60-100x magnification microscope with an extremely lightweight and portable design. It features a built-in light that provides a bright, clear image and a rubberized eyepiece for comfortable viewing. It is so small and light that it fits easily in your pocket to bring with you anywhere. Images are rendered inverted, because it does not have any prisms in the optical path (this is common to high-magnification devices).
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Bad: The focus and zoom knobs are stiff so it's hard to focus on something when you're holding the microscope in one had and the object in the other. The light switch is hard to slide. The lens has marks on it.
Good: Once you get it to focus, it's quite amazing for such a small device.
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i bought one for myself and one for my 5 yr old daughter. its plastic but has sturdy design and it works ok. nice to have around when you dont want costly real microscope broken by your kid. doesnt have the crystal clarity of real scope but it does work so its good value and especially nice to look at tiny engraving marks of paper money or stamps, insect wings ect..
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Bought these for my grandchildren. Wonderful way for them to see things under magnification. Great educational "toy."
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I bought these for my kids to use, but have found I enjoy using them as much as they do. The clarity is excellent and the size easily fits in a pocket or fanny pack. I was surprised to see that the bulb could be replaced if it burns out or is broken. It only has two drawbacks. first that it has a very small objective so you really have to have a steady surface and be looking at a very specific spot. Second that the magnification level is probably too much for the small objective which can make it hard to find what you are looking more.
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Perfect pocket size that can be carried easily on the go. Good solid construction I like how the grey knobs and eye piece have a nice ruberized finish and the light is bright. The only downside I have encountered thus far is that the light can have a flickering issue then it stays steady after a few mins. Even so at only[$] this is a must have and worthy of 5 stars.
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We use this product in our fraud detection units and it has made the entire process of detecting fraud much easyier. We are able to look at documents right down to the individual ink dots and determine if a document is real or is counterfiet. Great tool and it really works well in our applications. We plan to order many more to enhance our operations.
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It really works and can have fun in exploring
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