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Celestron 44320 Microscope Digital Kit MDK |  | Brand: Celestron
List Price: $88.95
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Rating:  16 reviews
Color: White
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
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Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 13 x 11 x 5
monocular
fixed-optics
zoom-magnification
MPN: 44320
Model: 44320
UPC: 050234443203
EAN: 0050234443203
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| Features:
| • | Biological microscope with powers from 40x to 600x | | • | Three prepared slides, rocks and honeybee wing | | • | Zoom eyepiece from 10x to 20x; 4x, 15x, 30x objective lenses | | • | Digital camera with imaging software included on CD-ROM | | • | Top and bottom electric illumination |
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Product Description
This multi-purpose microscope can be used as a traditional microscope with powers up to 600x or attach the digital camera to view on your computer. It is the perfect tool for discovering and learning about the world we can't see. Included software allows you to save digital images and video to your computer.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 16
 This microscope is junk. Don't buy it. August 15, 2010
J. Kitz (Ohio)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this microscope and sent it to my son for my Grandson and he to look at bugs. Straight out of the box, the lenses were so dirty that you couldn't see through it. My son tried cleaning them to no avail. He trashed ti before I could get it back. It is a piece of crap.
 Barby Microscope June 18, 2010
Eric B. Purviance
The microscope is simple enough, but perhaps a bit too simple for some. It has a very effective camera, but better to download software from the web, than use the useless CD it comes with. Images are good enough, but not going to give vivid color and detail. A female colleague of mine calls it the "Barby" microscope, because it is plastic and looks to be a child's toy. However, again it does have an efficient and working camera that goes well with the system. If you want a simple microscope with a camera, and you want it cheap; this is your device.
Don't know what people are complaining about April 11, 2010
R. Oshop (Boulder, CO)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a 50 dollar microscope. It does the deed, fairly well, but not superbly. Some advice:
1. Yes, there is some plastic and it's packaged in styrofoam so there will be a lot of static electricity and hence, dust -- use an air can to blow it away.
2. The camera is a simple CMOS one that has drivers for all Windows OS to date, but they are unsigned! (What is up with that, Celestron?) Hence Win7 won't accept them. You'll have to dig up an old XP box or laptop to run the camera.
3. The camera (rather easily) replaces the eyepiece and hence, takes away the 10-20x eyepiece magnification. So you are looking at 30x max for pictures that you can then blow up to your heart's content, but with loss of detail. As well, the focus is hard to do well with the camera on, compared to looking through the eyepiece, but it's not unusable.
4. Really, the optics aren't bad for $50. You'll have a hard time looking at coins for example, because even at lowest settings, the magnification is really good.
5. For best results, keep gunk off the optics. One way to gunk them up is if you put the slide in upside down, and the glue to the top glass on the slide gets rubbed on the stage. ;) As the manual says, you can clean the optics with photography camera cleaner.
6. My kit came with a very useful contrast light diffuser, negating any problems with heat from the LED light beneath the stage.
Really, I'm pretty happy with this toy. As a grown adult, I plan to use it to get ideas for art from the microscopic world. It serves its purpose for me.
 Celestron 44320 is poor quality March 3, 2010
Michael D. Sanders (Detroit, Michigan)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've had mine for about a week. The adjustments aren't smooth; actually they are rather sticky. When adjusting the viewpoint it moves up or down laterally or in an oblique so you don't keep the same view.
With my microscope there was a piece of something (maybe a piece of black plastic) stuck to the optics that is not easily removeable. It creates an irritating obstruction.
The video camera is placed on an unadjustable section or rather it is screwed into place. You have to turn the whole microscope to adjust magnification.
The construction and finish are very cheap. Plastic pieces press fit together and finished, internally, with some form of gray paint.
With software issues: I have XP...there were no problems, the window should have been expandable to view object details with clarity.
Impossible to get working with windows 7 or mac February 21, 2010
azezal
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
It does not support the mac, and the software will constantly die when in windows 7, even though it says that is supported. You can also tell that a lot of corners were cut with this, as it is completely plastic, and I already see some cracks on it even though it has barely seen any use.
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