Celestron Digital Microscope Imager

by Celestron

Product Features

• View and/or capture snapshot images or video with your computer
• Adapts to virtually any type of microscope
• 2mp sensor resolution with USB2.0 cable attached
• Imager replaces the eyepiece of your microscope so you can view comfortably on your computer screen
• UVC Plug and Play driver
• CD-ROM contains software for viewing and image capture when using the Imager, and works with Windows XP, Vista, and 7 operating systems

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.5 x 2.3 inches ; 8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B003DVP7CE
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #122 in Industrial & Scientific (See Top 100 in Industrial & Scientific)
  • #1 in Industrial & Scientific > Lab & Scientific Products > Lab Equipment > Microscope Equipment > Microscopes > Compound Monocular Microscopes
  • #21 in Industrial & Scientific > Measurement & Inspection Products

Product Description

The Celestron® digital microscope imager allows you to view and/or capture snapshot images or video with your microscope and your computer. The imager replaces the eyepiece of your microscope so images can be viewed on your computer screen. It's perfect for comfortable viewing by yourself or with small groups, and it will work with virtually all microscopes. Microscope and computer not included.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars camera is OK, software is junk, September 19, 2010

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atlantic1 "atlantic1" (Palm Bay, Florida United States) - See all my reviews

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The camera takes very good pictures (2 MP) and acceptable (VGA resolution) videos PROVIDED it is used with appropriate software. The Celestron software that came with the camera was absolutely useless when used on a Windows XP platform, the picture refresh rate was horrible, i.e., the picture shown on the computer screen was updated only every few seconds or so, which made microscope manual focusing virtually impossible and made using the camera very frustrating. Things got much better once I switched to Adobe Photoshop for image capture, and to InterVideo WinDVD Creator for video capture (both overkill for the task at hand, and I did spend one more day selecting and testing the software - the problem was complicated by the fact that the laptop I was using had an incorporated webcam which would could not be distinguished from the microscope camera by other software). Truth be told, though, one could get away with using the camera for taking pictures with no additional sofware (from Control Panel, Printers and Other Hardware, Scanners and Cameras, then right click on the USB camera and use the pop-up menus directly in Windows for image capture and saving), but I wanted a program that would allow for better logging of the pictures.
Bottom line, I use the camera in conjunction with a Celestron 44104 microscope in lieu of the 10x or 12.5x eyepieces (the camera is 15x), and my initial concerns about mechanical adaptability were unfounded, it does have an adaptor ring that fits the microscope quite nicely. The pictures are very good, and I am very happy with it, I would have given it four stars if I hadn't had to spend so much time finding software that would actually make it work to its full potential (other people may have to shop around for software, and that's a considerable additional expense).

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A USB Microscope camera suitable for Linux, November 9, 2010

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Stuart J. Nettleton - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Celestron Digital Microscope Imager

Here is high quality a USB microscope camera at a reasonable price. It is truly universal video camera (uvc) compliant in contrast to many "no-name" brands are not uvc compliant. It will be very difficult or even impossible to be use a non-compliant model with Linux, for example I have not been able to use a USB microscope based on an iPassion 1b3b:2938 chip and an email to the manufacturer was ignored. Celestion is completely different. The command "luvcview -L" brings up the various display modes. To run the program with say 800x600 resolution, just use the command "luvcview -f yuv -s 800x600". An even better program to use is guvcview. Unless you are using the Ubuntu operating system this program needs to be compiled into the kernel. Physically, the Celestron USB microscope camera is designed to slide directly into your microscope lens barrel. There was a little bit of play in my microscope barrel so to achieve a snug axial fit I expanded the outside diameter of the camera with a small amount of tape.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hardware good; Software good, November 24, 2010

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Lawrence Harris (Tellico Plains, TN) - See all my reviews
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In spite of previous reviews about poor software, I chose to try this out anyway. I found everything to be exactly as advertised. The harware fits precisely. To operate, you simply plug in the USB connector. The other controls are the usual focusing operations found on the microscope itself.
The software works well on my old Dell desktop upgraded to Win 7. It installed and launched without a problem. On first use I had to go into the Setup menu to tell the program which type of device I was using. Focusing and use then went smoothly.
Completely satisfied.