AmScope M150 Series Portable LED Monocular Student Compound Microscope - 40X-1000X Magnification - Microscope Kit Includes Du

Name: AmScope M150 Series Portable LED Monocular Student Compound Microscope - 40X-1000X Magnification - Microscope Kit Includes Du
SKU: 30819
Availability: InStock

4.5 | 2,909 ratings

Price: 101.99

Last update: 09-10-2024

About this item

This is an ideal microscope for home school or for students in elementary to high school to learn sciences
360 degree rotatable monocular head offers five magnification settings 40X, 100X, 250X, 400X & 1000X
Widefield all optical glass elements includes single lens condenser with disc diaphragm
Sturdy all metal framework. Power Supply - 110 V
LED illumination system uses either an outlet (adapter included) or three AA batteries (or re-chargeable batteries)

Product information

Product Dimensions

7 x 15 x 10 inches

Item Weight

4 pounds

ASIN

B00AM5XB5O

Item model number

M150C

Batteries

3 AA batteries required. (included)

Customer Reviews

4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,887 ratings

4.5 out of 5 stars

Best Sellers Rank

#278 in Camera & Photo Products (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo Products)
#3 in Lab Compound Monocular Microscopes

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

Date First Available

March 3, 2011

Manufacturer

United Scope LLC.

Country of Origin

China

Top reviews from the United States

JStrub

Once you know how it works, it’s great! Only one flaw...

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2022

I love how high quality it is compared to the low price! It’s rather heavy, but that can be quite useful when I need it to stay in one place. The two eye pieces come in handy more times than I can list. I love the light adjuster for brightness. Saves me a trip to the eye doctor!

Only flaw: This Microscope only has one light. The light that shines from below. Great for finding detail on thin and slightly translucent objects, but even at maximum light mist objects are shadowed in darkness. An old microscope I had as a kid had a light that shined down from the arm. (The piece that the eye piece and magnifying lenses are attached to) this made looking at solid objects VERY easy. I love this microscope, but I wish it had this angle light, would’ve made it perfect!

Tyler Triggs

Great Value Buy You will be very pleased after buying ...

Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2018

Great Value Buy
You will be very pleased after buying this microscope, as it is an extremely good option, especially for the price. The ideal user would be an infrequent user that doesn't not require an extremely high quality internal look inside cells. I personally use this microscope for analyzing semen samples collected from swine. I am fully able to accurately assess motility and morphology of the cells.

How It Can Help You
This microscope will allow you to accurately view cells on a molecular level. If you are looking for a basic entry level microscope I am quite certain that this device will more than exceed your level of expectations. The criteria I used to evaluate this product are pretty basic; ease of use, quality of focus, and light permeability. You will find that this product is extremely to use. The basic setup of the focus knobs are easy to distinguish between the corse adjustment, larger knob, and fine adjustment, small knob, easily allowing you to finely adjust your viewpoint on your desired specimen. I also appreciate the quality of focus this device can provide its users, which after purchase I'm sure you will too. Lastly the adjustable bulb shade allows you to effectively shade the amount of light that penetrates the slide. This will allow you to easily push light through darker specimens or lower for clear cells.

Closing The Deal
Overall, I would highly recommend this product to nearly any entry level user it can come with a few draw backs for a more advanced user such as, inability to see inside cells clearly and lack of a binocular objective, which could be expected as it is clearly marketed as a monocular objective however I do think it could improve the ease and clarity of use. However, this scope has fully met and exceeded all of my expectations for this device and I am extremely happy with this product and would buy it again.

Plumb

A nice budget microscope; some minor shortcomings but no deal-breakers. A solid choice for viewing items of interest up-close.

Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2016

We have so far only looked at a couple of things in this microscope; a small flying bug placed on a slide, and a drop of blood (I cut myself doing some home improvement projects, so captured a drop on a slide). This microscope does a fine job of allowing us to view these things up very close. I'm definitely glad I got this version with the fine-adjustment knob included rather than the less expensive version with only the coarse adjustment knobs.

The microscope itself feels solid and well-made. The 3-element rotating assembly works well and is nice and tight. The LED under-light works well with a nice smoothly adjustable brightness level. The stage is stable, with useful slide clips, and adjustable light aperture disc located underneath. This unit works equally well on battery power as with an AC adapter; for my purposes I'm sure we will only ever use it with batteries. The microscope also comes with a nice dust cover to protect it when not in use, and a secondary eyepiece to provide additional magnification when desired. At the highest magnification level with the more powerful eyepiece, the LED light does struggle to provide sufficient lighting, but you can still make out details on your subject slide well enough.

Honestly, at this price, I am quite happy with this purchase. I wish the LED light was capable of a bit more brightness, but for most purposes it works pretty well. The scope is sturdy and feels like it will last quite awhile. I also wish it had come with a better storage sleeve for the additional eyepiece. Even better still if the microscope had a place to store the extra eyepiece, or came with a storage case, but I'll make do. Overall, it should work great for showing my young daughter the interesting and amazing world of microscopic viewing.

Jon Dorian

Great Microscope for 10th grade biology.

Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2018

After reading some of the reviews, I was leery of buying this microscope. However, after receiving it I'm glad I did...
The box was in good shape. The contents were sealed in plastic and styrofoam. Batteries were sealed, not used. Everything was new, not reshipped.
The scope has three objective lenses; red for low power, yellow for medium power, and blue for high power. The scope comes with two eyepieces: one WF 10X and one WF 25X (both widefield). That is what the WF stands for. The scope also comes with a power adapter, just in case you don't want to use batteries. And, it comes with a plastic dust cover.
Someone complained about the scope not having an upper light. I used a small LED flashlight with good success.
As someone pointed out. one picture shows the scope hooked to a computer. This is very misleading, but for the price, it can be overlooked.
I happen to have a Celestron 93709 NexImage Solar System Imager, which I bought to use with my 10-inch telescope. It isn't much use unless you have a scope that tracks. My scope is manual. However, I found the imager of great use with a microscope. I have another MF10X eyepiece form a less expensive microscope, and it snuggly fits the imager. I am able to take pictures with my computer using the imager and scope.
I bought the microscope for my grandson. It will be of great use in his Biology Class.
One more thing: for those complaining about the scope not coming with slides and extras; the price will not allow it. You get those things with cheaper scopes. This is a great scope for the price as is.

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