National Geographic Digital Microscope for Kids – 40-Piece Handheld Microscope, Lightweight, Portable, Capture 1080p Photos & Video on Micro SD Card, Tilting 4.3-Inch LCD Screen, 800x Magnification

One of the best gifts my daughter received!

I got this for my 14-year-old granddaughter and she loved it. She found it very easy to use.

Even the parents will have a blast! Great quality!

The media could not be loaded. This has provided so much entertainment for our whole family. It was a gift for our 11yr old but we all enjoy it. I did dock a star because it has 2 major flaws. Flaw #1: it is hard to get great pictures when using it out of the stand. Even as an adult, so many pics come back blurry, even when I stabilize my elbows and hold as still as possible. Flaw#2 the focus knob does not stay put. You can literally see it spinning backward after you set it in place. (Not sure if ours is defective or if they all do that. I need to contact seller.) For $100 I expect a little higher quality. However, we still love this microscope and highly recommend it. The card it comes with holds a lot of photos....bonus! (Photos are: tie, sand dollar, butterfly face, butterfly wing)

Got it for my son and he had a blast with it going around and looking at different materials of things around the house.The slides are sharp! So be very cautious when handling them. The picture quality is great! With the adjustment knob, it’s very, precise I guess I could say. You need to dial in exactly to get a good quality picture. But it’s not difficult by any means to get the right focus.

This was a birthday gift for my 8-yr-old grandson. He was amazed at everything he could view with this microscope -- like his nails and his hair (and his Dad's hair). He said the slides in this set were also amazing.The "zooming in" feature was kind of tricky but his Dad figured it out. He is still enjoying looking at objects with this microscope a month later.

Great gift for my granddaughter's 5th birthday! So much easier to use than the non-digital microscope I used with my first grade students. Well worth the additional cost!

This handheld microscope is a good idea but it is almost useless. For out in the field, it is next to impossible to hold it steady enough to view in focus what is projected on the screen. Trying to take a picture seems out of the question since it requires pushing a separate button that will jar the image when depressed. The set of slides accompanying the microscope as well as the set of 25 slides sold separately are almost totally useless. The sections and whole mounts are of very poor quality, poorly stained and show little to nothing of the beautiful substructure that all these tissues have. They really aren't useful as a teaching tool. I was really disappointed because I was hoping this gift would be treasured by my grandchildren. National Geographic should be ashamed to market this poor quality product as an educational tool.