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Carson Micro Brite Pocket Microscope

Carson Micro Brite Pocket Microscope
From Carson Optical

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Product Description

The MM-24 MicroBrite from Carson Optical is a 20x-40x Zoom Pocket Microscope. Super-bright LED light illuminates your viewing subject to ensure a clear, bright image. View your object at 20x magnification or zoom in to an impressive 40x magnification to see even the finest details. Simply place the MicroBrite Zoom Pocket Microscope directly on any subject to see a magnified view or use the included base to view specimen slides. The MicroBrite is so compact and portable you can bring it with you anywhere. The Microscope comes complete with Pocket Microscope, 2 slides and base stand.

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #24726 in Sports & Outdoors
  • Color: Green with a black trim
  • Brand: Carson
  • Model: MM-24
  • Released on: 2009-05-26
  • Dimensions: 3.00" h x 1.75" w x 4.50" l, .17 pounds

Features

  • 20-40 X power
  • LED lighted
  • 3 LR-44 Button Cell Batteries(included)
  • includes Two slides and base stand
  • weighs only 2oz.

Customer Reviews

Fun, easy, educational5
Got this based on the blurb on CoolTools. The 20-40x magnification lets you see a surprising amount of detail; more useful and interesting than I expected. LED is well-positioned, plenty bright enough, and nicer white color than the old incandescents that cheap microscopes were always saddled with.

Cheap, unfussy, and very easy to use; enough so that my five-year-old has used it to examine every flat surface and textile in the house, plus hair, paper, her own fingerprints...it's been a stream of "Oh! That's amazing! Look at that!"

No idea on battery life; the momentary light switch (you have to hold it on) is a little frustrating when you're trying to focus on something tricky, but on the other hand it won't be left on either.

Oh! Make sure to look at a "white" pixel on your LCD or iPhone.

Highly recommended. If this breaks, we'll buy another.

MIcrobriite is bright5
For the price, this thing is great. I'm not super worried about damaging it, it's light, and the LED puts enough light on the subject to see things well.

Cool Pocket Microscope5
I bought this pocket microscope for viewing gold ore samples in the field and general viewing of small objects.

It works great. It is a bit awkward to handle as the light needs to be held on continuously while viewing and adjusting the focus, but this prevents prematurely killing the batteries by forgetting and leaving the light on. I can't say this is not a good feature as I have killed the batteries on my other one and they run as much as $5 each.

Cheaper hearing aid batteries may work in place of the more expensive electronics batteries. They did on my other one. They will need to be the same physical size.

The LED illumination is important to me as the battery life is much longer than with conventional lights.