AmScope B120C Series Student & Professional LED Binocular Compound Microscope - 40X-2500X Magnification - Features Siedentopf Head & 3D Mechanical Stage

I bought this for my daughter to encourage her love of science. As a quick background, I have an extensive background in optics including years of amateur astronomy and photography. As a result, I know good glass, and I detest cheap optics.To say that I am impressed with this microscope would do a disservice to the word, "impressed".It is very solid, the optics are clear and bright, and it worked 100% out of the box. It's better than the microscopes they have at the local high school, and most importantly, she loves using it so much that we've found her getting up early to use it before school, and this is a kid that doesn't get up early for ANYTHING!I will say that for our uses, the 100x objective was of little use (at least not for now), so I bought an additional 2x objective which lets her use the scope for looking at coins, bills, and other larger objects. You'll need an external light source for this, but that's easily obtained. We'll graduate to the 100x objective eventually, but for now, we're thrilled with the new setup, and you know what? The fact that we could swap objectives is a HUGE benefit that we wouldn't get with a cheaper microscope.If I have anything negative to say, it would be that the box contained no manual. Figuring I could just download it, I went to the website where it told me to find the Customer Information Sheet, which I did. It told me to enter the code, and if there wasn't a code, I probably bought it from Amazon (which I did), and that there would be a code on the box. I entered every damn code I could find and none of them worked. Finally, in a fit of frustration, I entered the model number, and the manual popped right up. Why I have to enter a code to get a manual is beyond me, but hopefully that will help someone else. Honestly, we didn't really need the manual, but it's always nice to have.The light is very bright and can be dimmed with the dial on the side. The controls are very precise and work great. I wish they were metal instead of plastic, but if plastic knobs gets me optics like this for the price I paid, well then plastic knobs it is!Yes, I could have bought this for less elsewhere, but I went through Amazon because if there was a problem, I knew that Amazon would have just swapped it or let me return it with ease.My daughter and I have spent hours together looking at everything we could think of through her microscope. She's excited about science, is thrilled to have a real instrument, and can't wait to use it every day. Who knows? Maybe this will help mold her into a world-renound microbiologist or forensic scientist. As far as I'm concerned, it was money well spent.

I bought this to do fecal exams at home for my goats and well it does the job perfectly. It feels like a very good quality microscope. I was scared it could get easily damaged but it was also packaged really well so that did not become an issue. It also comes with a plastic cover to store it. The light is adjustable, like most microscopes, but the light is so bright I actually had to keep it fairly dim because it would hurt my eyes. The image quality is great however and it brings two pairs of eye pieces and it even brought a small bottle of immersion oil i case you need it. Overall a great purchase and not that expensive compared to other microscopes.

My kids love it.

This was a birthday gift for my 13 yr old middle schooler son.He is just fascinated with looking though it atprepared slides, pond water, insects, etc.It is of very good quality. For a beginners though,such as my son and myself, I would’ve loved this product to have had a more detailed guide for its use and its features rather than just a single fold out page of minimal information.Though this did prompt me to aquire a very nice paperback guide book“The World of The Microscope”to give us more insight on microscopes, accessories, and how to’s.This scope is a well built model, and it should last my son through Highschool and beyond.I do recommend it for middle schoolers and up.

We especially liked the ease of setting up this microscope. It is very well designed, with excellent illumination control. An ideal size and weight, especially if you are purchasing for the student. The binocular head has a very wide range of adjustment. The LED lamp gives off a very effective neutral white illumination. Image quality is sharp and contrasty using the 4X and 10X objectives. If you want higher magnification it is probably best to purchase the 40X Plan objective. We did so, and this made 400X totally effective. Includes a nice dust cover and a spare fuse. The manual is excellent, but must be downloaded as a PDF file on the Amscope website. All in all, a very well designed microscope, with a wide range of features, for a very reasonable cost. Highly recommended.

The first scope was missing parts and obviously used... Contacted AmScope and was told someone would contact me back. Never happened so I requested a replacement from amazon. New one came quick but this one had oil all over the stage and the two eye pieces were so badly aligned that I saw double. I searched the manual to see if it could be aligned but did not easily find anything on the AmScope site. After the terrible luck on the phone with the last scope just going to return and not even bother with it. Going to look for something different...