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Poor product, fuzzy, blurry optics, Amazon had this item listed for $49 new but when other vendors advertize this item, the price goes up to $119. Don't waste your money, go to another brand, anything but this particular product.

Microscope is pretty cool, but it came with a piece and no instructions on how to use it. it's good for a starter microscope for kids.

I bought this for my daughter as a birthday gift. She absolutely loved it! It came with more than I thought it would. I give this item an A+++!

This Microscope was Xmas present for my son, 10. He was just happy to got it and did installation by himself. He completed every experiments from manual. :) Even make growing up small shrimps. That was interesting even for me. Better to see if you put a sun beam to reflect mirror or you can use installed lamp with batteries. For 10 years old boy - good choice

I wasn't holding much hope when I purchased this because of all of the other reviews I had read about childrens Microscopes and this one is no different! It works very very well on low magnification and we could look at a lot of things (including the brine shrimp we hatched that came with the kit), but at the 1200x power you can not see anything!! On the bright side, this one does seem more durable than others that I considered purchasing and it does have a case to store it in. However, if I had to do it over, I think I would have purchased either the EyeClops remote magnifier or one that was capable of viewing 3D objects.