Carson MicroMini 20x 袖珍显微镜，紫外线和 LED 手电筒，蓝色 (MM-280B)

J’avais déjà un Microbrite de poche, j’en voulais un plus petit pour mes enfants, le grossissement est moins important mais ce n’est pas un mal car il est déjà largement suffisant et du coup plus facile à utiliser par les enfants, il dispose de 3 lampe mais une seule est réellement utilisable en mode microscope, j’aurais préféré que les 3 soit disposé pour l’observation car la led est assez puissante et fait mal aux yeux à force d’observation. Le grossissement est parfait pour voir trames d’impression, les sous pixel des écrans LCD, les cheveux, les cellules de peau ; par contre je ne voit pas la sueur sortir des pores comme avec le microbrite.
Pour un enfant de moins de 10 ans c’est parfait, pour au dessus de 12ans vous pouvez passer sur un modèle au dessus,.

Super nöjda med den, förvånad bra 🙂

You could say I am a microscopy enthusiast. I wanted a scope to use when I’m out with my kids. I wanted something that my 5 year old could use, but powerful enough that we could all enjoy it. I suspect a lot of buyers might be thinking the same thing, so here’s my thoughts on using this with young kids.

I purchased the following portable microscopes/magnifiers and tried them all out:

* Carson MicroMini 20x LED Lighted Pocket Microscope (MM-280B) ** THIS ITEM **
* Carson MicroBrite Plus 60x-120x Power LED Lighted Pocket Microscope (MM-300)
* Carson 60X-75X MicroMax LED Lighted Pocket Microscope (MM-200)
* Carson 10x LumiLoupe (LL10)

I included a picture for size comparison.

For our intended use, I expect to get the most use from the MM-280B. The magnification is good enough to suprise you with what you see, revealing details that are still small enough to be unexpected and exciting. Yet it is still easy enough to use that my 5 year old can use it with some help.

It’s super easy to focus and very small, smaller than expected. It’s the smallest of the scopes I tried by a large margin. The LED is bright enough to use it even in the dark and still get a good image. Batteries were included.

I found that with the other, higher magnification, scopes it was too hard to focus and share with my kids — even extremely tiny movements in my hand would consistently cause the image to shift or knocked out of focus. It was too hard to get an image and share it with my kids on those scopes, even at their lowest magnification. The MM-300 in particular was AMAZING in terms of image, but it isn’t great for sharing. I will keep that one to myself. 🙂

On this scope, the 20x magnification was good enough to see plenty of detail and still be able to share it with each other without losing focus. The LL10 was obviously super easy to share since no focusing is required and the field-of-view on that one is HUGE. Unfortunately, the loupes only go up to 10x and that does not seem to be quite enough magnification to impress the kids (let alone adult myself). If there was a Carson 20x pre-focused loupe, I’d try that out, but the off-brand options I could find looked pretty low-quality.

I wasn’t too big on having UV, but as it turned out this is somewhat useful already. A number of the minerals we have found already are UV reactive.

The only drawback is that this thing won’t actually survive on my keychain. It does seem very durable, but I am confident it would eventually be scratched or rendered inoperable if it were to become part of my “everyday carry” and endure frequent nicks and bumps. I need to look into some sort of small case or something. A lens cap/cover to protect the optics from my keys would make this ideal.

The other scopes were great for other purposes but I think that if you are planning to let your kids use this, this one is a good choice. If you want something that a 5-year old (or younger) can use without any help at all, then the LL10 is a good choice but they probably won’t be amazed by the details they discover, it will be more of a “mildly interesting” reaction with the LL10. The others have more impressive magnification, but will be hard for kids to use. This one was a great middle ground.

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It didn’t magnify as much as I was hoping but it is super cool. For the amount of money your spending you get lots of fun and creativity, and it is really easy to use. It isn’t as good as a normal microscope of course but for the price you are getting a really good deal I think. It gives you a new perspective on everyday items in a unique way, it’s way better than my phone camera zoom so I wouldn’t of been able to see things in this way without it. It’s really easy to photograph as well which I really like! It’s super tiny so very easy to carry around. The plastic does feel a little flimsy but over all I think it’s sturdy enough to have some fun with it.