List Price: $800.00
Sale Price: $199.98
Today's Bonus: 75% Off
I bought this microscope for my kids who learn science in primary school. I would like to introduce them how they can really see what bare eyes can not. This microscope, I hope, will bring a "new world" to them. When this microscope arrived I did not open it immediately and my kids were waiting enthusiastically until I returned back home from an overseas trip and opened the package and started trying the new microscope together. I was quite disappointed when we realized that the 100x objective lens did not work to produce any picture. I tried many times using the slides samples from AMscope and finally I gave up and only use the objective 4x, 10x, and 40x. The picture I can see om my laptop screen with the 1.3 MP USB imager is quite good for 4x, 10x and 40x. The 100x did not work out. I am not sure either to complain or return as I live in Singapore and how AMscope will handle this case.
The small screw in the viewer lens tube that hold the viewfinder lens is so tiny and easily dropped when we changed from 10x to 25x view finder. Few times i had to struggle searching for missing 2 mm length of screw on floor and on table as exchanging the viewfinder must unscrew it. It seemed that this microscope had been kept in storage room for quite some time as fine dust can be seen just all over the surface of the microscope. I had to manually spray lens cleaner liquid to the objective lens and viewfinder lens to remove the dust and dirts as they appeared on the screen even when we did not put any object on the microscope table pad after we connected the microscope to the USB to a laptop). With US$199 I thought the price was quite "appealing" but with the facts I just mention I am thinking again that my decision might not be the right one. As with other AMscope products that have got many good reviews I had the benefits of the doubt that even there is no buyer review yet in this product before, I had a belief to try and expected a "good or at least decent" quality product. Packing and delivery wise they do it quite good in terms of delivering to customer safely. I was a microscope user back then 30 years ago when I was in my secondary school so that I could try and manually understand how to use the microscope. AMscope should have been able to provide just few pages of how-to-operate manual and give "cautious" warning on how to treat the lens and when user adjusting the position of the lens. I hope that AMscope will be able to improve the product quality and take this feedback as a good kickstart. Few hours after writing the comment just now II cleaned the objectives lenses (100x) again and it works alright. The dirts/dusts affected the lens performance but now it works well. I change my review from 2 stars to four stars for the fact that the four objectives lens all can work now to see the object (I use 100 specimen A from AMScope which are wonderful selections). I suggest AMscope to really inspect their product storage before shipping so that the lenses can all be functioning and not blurred by dust or dirts. For the price of almost U$200 I would say this product deserves 4 stars.
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