Carson MicroFlip 100x-250x, LED UV Pocket Microscope with Smartphone Clip, STEM Education (MP-250)

4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars | 8,572 ratings

Price: 19.99

Last update: 01-03-2025


About this item

Smartphone Digiscoping - The included smartphone digiscoping clip lets you document your findings, and allows children, students and educators to share their discoveries with ease.
High Clarity Imaging - The lens system of the MicroFlip greatly reduces distortion, and provides sharp images, making it an ideal choice for students studying the field of microbiology.
STEM Toy - Dive into biology with the MP-250 pocket microscope educational toy. Explore cells, bacteria, and viruses with versatile illumination and magnification
On-The-Go Exploration - With its lightweight design, and wrist strap, this pocket microscope is the perfect educational toy for fieldwork, enabling children to explore and experiment anywhere.
Magnification & Illumination - Explore bacteria, microorganisms with 100x to 250x magnification, revealing details under various lighting conditions

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Top reviews from the United States

Brandie Monck
5.0 out of 5 stars Very impressive pocket size microscope!
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2023
Firstly, I'd like to mention when I received my order yesterday that the one I got was used and missing the clip. I submitted my request for a replacement and let me say, in just under 24 hours later, I already got a new replacement. I have NEVER experienced such rapid and hassle free service. Amazon amazes me more every day!

And so on with the product. I am definitely giving this a 100% positive review. When I saw it on Amazon, I thought it would be something my grandson would like. After looking at others, this one seemed the best for the price.

I had a such a hard time putting it down, I spent hours using it this morning!!

The microscope is built sturdy, slim enough for your pocket, purse, or hand, big or small. The functions are all easy to use. And when I used it on my phone, I was even more impressed. I have not tried the slide yet, but I can only guess based on what short time I have played around with it, that will be a favorable feature as well.

As for the price, I did get it on sale, but I believe even full price it is worth it. So much that I will be keeping this one and not only ordering another for my grandson, but also for my high school aged son and my husband, who both want one too!
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Brandie Monck
5.0 out of 5 stars Very impressive pocket size microscope!
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2023
Firstly, I'd like to mention when I received my order yesterday that the one I got was used and missing the clip. I submitted my request for a replacement and let me say, in just under 24 hours later, I already got a new replacement. I have NEVER experienced such rapid and hassle free service. Amazon amazes me more every day!

And so on with the product. I am definitely giving this a 100% positive review. When I saw it on Amazon, I thought it would be something my grandson would like. After looking at others, this one seemed the best for the price.

I had a such a hard time putting it down, I spent hours using it this morning!!

The microscope is built sturdy, slim enough for your pocket, purse, or hand, big or small. The functions are all easy to use. And when I used it on my phone, I was even more impressed. I have not tried the slide yet, but I can only guess based on what short time I have played around with it, that will be a favorable feature as well.

As for the price, I did get it on sale, but I believe even full price it is worth it. So much that I will be keeping this one and not only ordering another for my grandson, but also for my high school aged son and my husband, who both want one too!
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Joshua
5.0 out of 5 stars Great for the price...
Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2023
Not sure how anyone could rate this poorly for the price. You simply will not find a better microscope for this price.

It has a few puzzling design choices. Folding down the slide holder quite literally makes using the UV light impossible to use (turns it off) and switches to a secondary LED light which may or may not be useful. Why not provide the user the ability to choose their own light source instead if forcing it automatically? Eventually I'll modify it so I can use the light source I prefer. It's always confusing when obvious design time was devoted to making a product "less useful", but here we are.

Be very careful if choosing to use phone clip. It does NOT thread onto microscope and basically only very barely holds it in place. I can easily see a child breaking their expensive phone trying to use a clip that surely won't support the weight of a phone. I would suggest taking the time to build a support for the phone at en equal height of the microscope before attempting to use.

Working around these quirks keaves you with a very impressive magnification level for $20 and surely lots of good fun. The fact that they use a very common AA size battery is a great design choice. Previous pocket scopes I've owned used tiny watch betteries which is a major hassle...so the design team did great here.
Jennifer Cootware
4.0 out of 5 stars Scope Great, Slides Not So Much
Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2023
As someone that did microscopy at various times in both education and in volunteering for a local museum, I have to say I'm impressed at how well this scope performs. For a handheld (and some tabletop ones I've used), this actually is a really good and clear scope! The UV part only activates as you hold its button down, and the regular light is on point for being able to look at slides and other things like paper and carpet fibers and hairs. I highly suggest if you're the type of person that takes walks in their neighborhood that includes curiosity of your surroundings, this would be a valuable tool to look at leaves and such up close. A worthwhile investment.

The slides suck. Sure, you can see stuff because the scope is good, but there are so many bubbles in the production of these slides even I don't always know what I'm looking at without a label. Too cheaply made, especially for a layman that doesn't do microscopy a lot and won't necessarily know a bubble from an actual structure that's the subject of the slide. I'd just buy the scope.
a.s.
3.0 out of 5 stars Ok/decent but didn't work for my needs
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2021
I was looking for something that would work to view demodex mites and similar on adhesive tape. While this does work surprisingly well for what it is, it's very difficult to use. In my experience it has to basically be touching a stable object to get any sort of clear picture, so it's not really useful for objects where touching the object would mess it up because there's no way to scan the larger object to find what you want to focus on. For instance when working with adhesive tape that sticks to the edges of the scope, it's near impossible. Ditto if you have a specimen in a solution on a slide and need to find it through the scope. In such cases You have to know exactly where the microscopic thing is that you want to magnify and somehow position it perfectly from the start so that you're not essentially pushing it or crushing it, which is impossible since you can't see the object clearly until it's touching the edge of the device. When you can get it right, the picture is surprisingly crisp at least closer to the 100x magnification. If not for these issues this would be a good device for the cost.

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