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I couldn't be more pleased with my purchase, this camera has exceeded all of my expectations and at a VERY attractive price. IT Guy thought it to be a "little pricy for a webcam" but I discussed that in my comment to his review. Basically, it is way more than a mere webcam. The camera and the software (very sophisticated) are tailored to use in microscopy.

In interest of full disclosure, I use mine strictly for still shots, so any issues concerning its video capabilities are beyond my scope of use.

The SW ran well on my previous computer (a 5 year old Dell D620) and runs fine on my new (albeit pretty powerful) new computer. (Again, I'm doing still shots, not videos.)

This particular camera (AmScope's MU series)is manufactured by ToupTek (their MA series is made by Tucsen). I selected the 3MP version (MU300) because it had the most light sensitivity of ToupTek's line. The lab across the hall has the 8MP version of the same camera which is a great camera also. However, the 8MP version was getting close to running out of steam at very low-light darkfield conditions. That is why I selected the MU300 to have more light sensitivity. (Either camera is far more sensitive to light than the human eye so even the 8MP version can see in much darker conditions than you can see.)

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As a retired biology teacher, I wish these cameras were around a few years ago. The AmScope 3 MP is so compact that I keep it permanently in one of the eye tubes of my binocular scope and use only one eyepiece for direct viewing. The camera is good at real-time scanning of a slide with no lag or jerkiness and I find myself looking at my computer screen more than through the microscope itself. The software is adequate, but some of the instructions are a little confusing. Other than that, I would highly recommend this camera.

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I installed a MU300 camera in the one eyepiece tube of an Olympus SZ microscope. This 1970ish microscope has a zoom of 0.7X to 4X with no eyepiece. The MV300 gives a magnification of approximately 20X to 114X on a 24 inch monitor running 1920 X 1200 resolution. The image was mirrored and that was easily corrected with the excellent software from AmScope. The software GUI allows control of the frame rate, picture resolution and many of the typical photo editing features such as contrast, hue, saturation, etc. This makes for a professional video microscope at a great price. NOT a toy! See my pictures above.

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Yes you can get the camera to work (and it performs well)......no thanks to the user manual....wish I could figure out how to actually use its capabilities.

Perhaps Amscope people will hear this and get a Forum going so users can help each other.

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I have been using a variety of cameras for many years now and have had varied degrees of satisfaction. My reference is to use a 12M Pentax which gives great resolution but can be not as flexible as I wanted.

This unit provides high quality stills and video. The quality and presentation is first rate with exceptionally good resolution.

I have also used this for video collection which I found exception when I prepare videos for histology presentations,

The software is generally quite good and my only concern is that the software sets off warnings in Windows 7.

This is definitely one of the easiest and best I have used side from my Pentax. My only concern would be proper color capture since I will analyze pigment diffusion and need some reasonable color standard.