LAKWAR Portable Digital Microscope for Kids & Adults, 200~1000X Pocket Handheld Microscope with Slide Kit, Photo and Video Capture with 2’’ HD Screen and 32G Micro SD Card

Great range of magnification. The built in camera that allows to record pics and videos is a great feature.

Well what an amazing piece of kit, does everything it says.I can't believe what value it is. Preloaded memory card, fully rechargeable, lightweight and an amazing focus/zoom. No more vad eyes and head aches from looking through jewelers loops at my coins/crystals and jewellery, all in colour too.

This is useful as a magnifier and is helpful to read small print on items. You have to hold it quite close to the items for best results and adjust the focus dial. It’s great for looking at finer detail on leaves and plants and stones and even close up detail of fabrics where you can see how the fibres are woven.

Bought this for my grandsons 7th Birthday. We had fun looking at bugs and other stuff in the garden and at the beach. It is really robust and easy to use, he taught me! I didn’t realise it would take photos of more than items under the microscope so that was a bonus, I’ll leave it to his Dad to up load stuff to his laptop but I’m guessing it will be simple for him.

This neat little device has a lot going for it. It's a long way from the cheap microscopes of my youth, with their squinty eyepieces and capricious mirror lighting. It is made essentially from plastic, fits in the hand (perhaps not smaller children's), and is based on a digital camera. There is a bright LED screen and two rows of control buttons on the top, a clear plastic housing at the bottom for specimens, and a large ribbed focus wheel at the front. The six plastic slides provided can be fed into the slots in the clear plastic, where they are illuminated by a ring of LEDs and viewed by the lens. The lighting can be adjusted by a fiddly recessed wheel near the top. Magnification is changed using one of the buttons. The image displayed is pretty good, but the samples are rather poor and uninspiring, and it's serious omission not to include any blank slides for inquisitive users to make their own specimens. The slides tend to stick in the slots in my example, making positioning a bit of a task. This could probably be corrected with some Stanley-knife surgery, but really a proper clamp of some sort would be better. What the small instruction leaflet doesn't explain, and the listing pictures also gloss over, is that the bottom acrylic cover can and needs to be removed to unleash the real potential of this device. It can then be placed on, or pointed at, almost anything, and with the ring-light, can provide a bright and detailed image. In truth, the magnification is not vastly greater than I get with the macro mode of my pocket camera, but it's enough to reveal a hidden world. It can focus on objects quite a long way from the lens, too.The microscope is able to record images in a number of resolutions and formats, and these can be downloaded to a computer or other device using the supplied USB-C charging lead. Not only that, but it can record videos as well. A 32GB SD card is already fitted in the slot.This unassuming little gadget has the functionality to provide huge amounts of fun and education. It is aimed at kids, but everyone should enjoy using it. The price of £34.99 seems fair.

I wasn't sure what to expect but the quality is great! It is a battery operated microscope. It's easy to use and seemed pretty straightforward to set up too. It kept the kids (and adults!) entertained for ages.

Impressive zoom capabilities on this, just messing around it shows individual fibres in my jeans and individual pixels on my TV with a pretty clear picture. I thought it would be more of a toy than it actually is, but in reality it definitely has practical uses and is very capable. It comes with a 32gb micro-SD card already installed and ready to go. As default, all photo and video settings are set to their minimum, so might be worth you going in to the menus and upping the quality. Thankfully, everything is very easy to use and navigate, once you're in the menu's everything is laid out nicely and simple to browse, even with the limited buttons. The little LED lamp is pretty powerful and fully adjustable, I mostly found that I only ever really needed it to be on 50% brightness most of the time. Focus is just as easy as everything else to use with a decent size wheel that is weighted, so it doesn't just flick round like crazy. Basically, I'm sure this would be fascinating to use for any nerdy, science-y kid, but if you need this for some kind of hobby like stamps, coins, gardening etc. then it's absolutely capable of being a serious tool. I used ot use something very similar to this but without the screen and honestly, I do not miss having to bend over and squint my eye up to a viewer to see what's going on, the screen is just so much better. Very happy with it and it will cover everything I need it for very well.

I set the magnification to 1000x and placed the scope on a ruler. Three 1mm divisions filled the screen. As the screen is about 40mm across this works out to a magnification of around 14x according to my maths.I messaged the seller asking for some clarification but have had no answer.