Celestron 44342 Round LCD Digital Microscope (Black)

by Celestron

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11 x 9 x 10 inches ; 3.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00257KBZ0
• Item model number: Round LCD Digital Microscope
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,672 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
  • #40 in Camera & Photo > Binoculars, Telescopes & Optics > Microscopes > USB Microscopes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 1, 2009

Product Description

This innovative microscope design allows you to view specimens on the LCD screen which provides for comfortable viewing for the individual and small groups. The digital camera allows you to take snapshot images or short videos. Ideally suited for examining specimen slides of yeasts and molds, cultures, plant and animal parts, fibers, bacteria, etc.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Crazy Cool for the Price, September 1, 2010

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B. Marshall "Bronco Fan" (Littleton CO) - See all my reviews
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I picked this up with very low expectations, and have been completely wrong. Don't expect a lab type of experience, but this is really cool. My HS age AP student son has much better ability to focus finely than I do (the focus is touchy). You can get some amazing views. My wife is a Elementary School Teacher, and she already is planning a science segment around this scope.

When you add in the ability to take photos, really opens up the potential for fun and homework.

I picked this up on a Lightning deal, and received a great value. I picked up some premade slides, and they really let you have fun immediately.

Set your expectations correctly, and this is really cool.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best beginner microscope I have came across, August 23, 2010

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Tasha Cole (Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews
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I bought this as a lightening deal special, with no ratings and no idea what to expect. My son will be going into the 7th grade and I thought this would at least be a entertaining toy...but I have to be honest, I am totally delighted with this product! Its alot more than a toy, it took him a few minutes to get the hang of it, because you have quite a few items to adust. You can adjust how close or far away it is on the face of the monitor, and the brightness by dialing the side knob and as the photo shows on Amazon, there is also a slider button on the bottom right side to change the focus.

It comes with 5 fixed slides and our favorite is the fly leg! When he first put it in the microscope, it looked like a long black piece of nothing. After he figured out how to play with the adjustments we saw the leg in extreeme detail and it was so cool! (A bit gross, but totally cool at the same time)! The digital microscope has built in memory that allows you to take and save digital photos as well as the capacity to add a SD card to add pictures or short videos onto.

This is a wonderful beginner microscope, the best I have seen so far and my middle schooler loves it! When he gets into high school I will buy him a nicer quality microscope from this same company without a second thought. I would have bought a better one to begin with, but never having bought from this company and having no prior reviews for this microscope I was afraid to, but now I am looking forward to purchasing another one!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Died the second time I tried it., March 9, 2011

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N. Bolser (Seattle area) - See all my reviews
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Sounded like a fun "toy". Arrived with the packing in good shape, but most of the prepared slides were pre-broken. Started up fine, but the focus knob was sticky. I could focus in on one of the remaining prepared slides at the lower power per the directions. When I increased the power it needed to be re focused. That is where the sticky knob caused problems. It would begin to come into focus, then a bit more and it would "jump" past the focal point. Never did get it to focus at higher powers. Put it in the box for a couple days in disgust. Pulled it out again this morning to give it one more chance. Plugged in the transformer power, the led lit briefly then a burnt smell showed up and no more light, no LCD display, it was dead. First thing I've ever had to return to Amazon, relatively painless other than the 12 mile round trip drive to ship it back. Kind of funny, I combined the trip to UPS with a trip to the medical lab. Dropped off samples of crap at both places. Maybe this was a lemon. I didn't expect all that much for the price, but this was ridiculous.