Carson MicroMini 20x Pocket Microscope (MM-280B)
Key Features of Carson MicroMini 20x Pocket Microscope:
- Powerful Mini Microscope – Conveniently sized to comfortably fit in a pocket or attach to a keychain, the MicroMini offers an impressive 20x magnification with UV lighting and built-in flashlight.
- Great Educational Field Microscope – Perfect for students and educators, this microscope can bring lessons to life by conveniently allowing detailed examination of various specimens.
- Advanced Lighting – The Carson MicroMini 20x Pocket Microscope features both UV lighting and a built-in LED flashlight. UV light is particularly useful in detecting flourescence when inspecting currency or biological specimens
- Keychain Flashlight – Clarity can be easily adjusted with the focus wheel and the keychain feature makes the MicroMini incredibly portable, so you’re always prepared for impromptu inspections.
- Available in Orange, Blue and Green Color Options (Current Selection: Blue)
Specification: Carson MicroMini 20x Pocket Microscope (MM-280B)
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Carson MicroMini 20x Pocket Microscope (MM-280B)
$10.49
Mr. Chris –
Eu tenho este modelo de 20x e o de 60x-120x. Prefiro este do que o outro pelos seguintes motivos:
20x pode parecer pouco, mas não é, você vai se impressionar em quanto isto significa ao utilizá-lo. Quanto mais magnificação, mais difícil é obter o foco, mais difícil é centralizar o assunto e mais difícil é de reconhecer o que está sendo analisado. Um simples furo na mesa vira uma cratera reconhecível, já em um microscópio com mais de 60x, você perceberá a textura mais ampliada, mas terá dificuldade em ver todo o contexto. Com 20x, a proposta de sair e explorar é mais funcional, com 60x em muitos casos você terá de apoiar o assunto em uma superfície ou não conseguirá focar.
A construção dele não é das melhores, aparenta uma certa fragilidade, mas a óptica da Carson é muito boa (excelente nitidez, quase livre de aberrações e distorções), ficando acima de modelos genéricos similares.
Corey Long –
Gave as a stocking gift for our 10 year old. She loves this little thing! I, myself was impressed with the quality for what I paid for this thing! I would buy again!
Amazon Customer –
Lightweight and small…perfect for taking a closer look at nature
Greg –
I have owned two of these over the past few years. The first one was lost.
This is a great little pocket magnifier for rocks, coins, stamps, fingerprints and what ever you wanna look at up close. The led white light works great for viewing and the UVA Ultraviolet light is neat for viewing organic compounds and fluorescent materials.
It’s pretty lightweight but decently durable.
anonimo –
Pude ver objetos con gran claridad inclusive comparado con lo de un microscopio! Para ser pequeño es sorprendente porque puede usarse como lampara, ver objetos con su lampara con selección de dos ángulos eso ayuda mucho. Un llavero que no podemos olvidar!
Jacquie Keymer –
I always read the reviews. I can’t believe anyone gave this a 4 or 5 star review. It is totally worthless.
I bought 2 for Christmas and I am glad I checked one out before giving as a gift. It is unusable. The image is reversed, the lens came scratched and the viewing area is so limited that you can’t focus on anything. The only thing I think it could even be possibly used for is a teeny weeny flashlight. Keep looking. You can do better. Don’t buy this junky little “magnifier”.
LyndaA –
I got this for my husband for his birthday. He loves it. It has different light features and fits into any pocket. Would buy again and again. Perfect gift for the rock hound
Moni –
Great little gadget to carry in my pocket. I take it along for walks in the woods. Its interesting to get a close up view of items you’d normally not even be aware of. Good for the price.
Kaiser Soze –
This little 20-power magnifier isn’t like the other, more powerful Carson mini-microscopes. The other ones, which are more powerful, use a very tiny objective lens together with a bright LED to provide the light needed to make up for the small objective lens. In those other pocket microscopes, the small objective lens makes focusing vastly easier. This little 20x keychain magnifier uses a more conventional lens arrangement, most likely two, one the objective and the other the eyepiece. The objective lens is probably about 13 mm in diameter, which together with the 20x power means that in daylight you could do without the LED. But with the LED, you get a nice bright image regardless. The focusing isn’t terribly difficult, owing to the magnification not being especially strong. All in all it is a good solution for a 20 x magnifier that you can easily carry on a keychain, if you want. The most noteworthy drawback is that the sliding switch on the side is very cheap and difficult to use. It doesn’t want to move, and when it does, it wants to go all the way from one end to the other. The ‘off’ position is in the center; the two end positions are for the LED you use when using the magnifier, and the auxiliary LED that serves as a flashlight and gives you a reason to carry it on your keychain. It also has a little UV light, which I suppose is for when you look at rocks that glow under UV light. Or maybe for getting a close-up look at scorpions. To make the switch behave, you have to press down on it firmly and move it in a controlled manner. I’m just not sure how long it is going to last when used this way. But it doesn’t cost much so if it eventually stops working it isn’t a big deal, and even without the light it is a useful magnifying lens. Recommended with only the weakest of reservation.
YeahRight –
My 20 something’s had fun with this!
This is a good gadget to gift.
It WORKS.
Tonny Solis –
Muy practico y super funcional muy facil de operar y bastante resistente, de muy buenos materiales
mike –
I’m actually surprised how well this works. It magnifies more than I expected (you can see the fibers in paper, for example), and the light makes your subject easy to see in low light. Despite feeling a bit cheap and flimsy, it is very easy to get in focus.
I went with this to have around over a magnifying glass. With this the microscope needs to be right on the object, so it might not reach some hard to read things (such as a curved object). As such, it is not a perfect replacement if that is what you need.
Despite that, this isn’t necessary just a toy. It works very well for hard to see/read things at twice the magnification of most magnifying glasses. The light is a nice addition, as well as having a UV light; how many people have one of those lying around? Very fun.
It is also very small and light. I’ve been easily keeping it in my backpack to show off to friends that I’ve got a handy microscope on me.
Biggest downside is I don’t like the button batteries. Not sure how long they last yet. A rechargeable would have been preferable, but maybe the very small size (length is half of my index finger) prohibits that.
Sigfredo Ivan Escalante V –
Lo recomiendo para llevar contigo y revisar las cartas de MTG (supongo igual sirve para Poke). Ya he detectado al menos 3 falsificaciones con este chikitín. Excelente aparatejo.