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Celestron 44340 LCD Digital LDM Biological Microscope |  | Brand: Celestron
List Price: $335.95
Buy New: $178.54
as of 3/10/2010 01:46 CST details
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Rating:  19 reviews
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 8.3
Dimensions (in): 16 x 10 x 8
monocular
MPN: 44340
Model: 44340
UPC: 050234443401
EAN: 0050234443401
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| Features:
| • | Compound (Biological) Microscope | | • | 40 to 400 Power - up to 1600 Power with Digital Zoom | | • | Built-in Digital Camera - 2 Mega Pixels - Acts as 10x eyepiece | | • | View with 3.5" (88 mm) LCD Screen with 4x Digital Zoom | | • | Top and Bottom LED Illumination |
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Product Description
LCD Digital Microscope replaces traditional eyepieces with an LCD Screen for easy and comfortable viewing for yourself and to share with others. The LCD Digital Microscope also features a built-in digital camera for quick and easy snapshots or short videos. Store captured photos and clips on the optional SD card or transfer them to your personal computer via included USB cable. This innovative product combines advanced professional grade microscope features and an easy to use point and shoot camera. The Celestron LCD Digital Microscope is an ideal tool for up close examination of everything from stamps, coins and other common objects to specimen slides of yeasts, molds, cultures, fibers, bacteria and insects.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 19
 Incredible Microscope for the price! February 25, 2010
W. Bumgarner (Cupertino, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For the price, this is one heck of a microscope! Good quality optics combined with an awesome slide stage (the caliper based movement makes moving the subject just slightly even at 1600x magnification). It takes decent quality jpg snapshots and "just worked" with Mac OS X.
The micrscope also comes with a really good quality hard sided zippered case and global power adaptors.
The instructions kind of suck; they don't make it clear that digital zoom only works if you also set the snapshot resolution less than the native 1600x1200, for example.
The one design issue is that the buttons have a good solid >click< to them. Why is this a problem? Because at higher magnifications, pushing the snapshot button can cause the image to blur as vibration is transferred to the optics.
 Fine little microscope February 20, 2010
Ingrid Shafer
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
For the price (less than $200.00 at Amazon) this is an fine little microscope, solidly built, portable (with a light-weight, well-designed case), easy to set up, and simple to use. The manual is clearly written and useful (except for at least one minor error: the camera icon is not on the lower left but upper left of the LCD screen ["Taking Images" p. 7]). The camera functions well. The high resolution still images I took (of blood and blue cheese) are fairly clear, and the videos of a tiny drop of aquarium water show an astounding assortment of active (albeit soon to die) microorganisms, probably in better focus than the ones observed by Leeuwenhoek. I now know why my fish seem to do well even if I forget to feed them. Illumination is appropriate, though clearly best suited for viewing transparent or semi-transparent specimens. I was especially surprised by the large amount of internal memory which, coupled with the video file format (3GP, normally used in mobile phones) permits a stunning number of image and video files to be stored. Downloading to a computer using a USB cable (supplied) is very easy - the camera simply shows up as a removable disk. If necessary, shareware conversion programs for 3GP to AVI or MPG format can be found and downloaded in a matter of minutes. The date default setting to January 9, 2031 is, however, more than a bit futuristic and might be a bug. The microscope I ordered did not suffer from the black spot on the monitor mentioned by several reviewers. I recommend this microscope for anyone who doesn't expect to get a $2000 instrument for one tenth of the price.
My son like it very much! February 10, 2010
L. Ying
This is a present I brought for my son, it is very easy to use and also has a good quality. My son like it so much!
Excellent Microscope for the Digital Age December 21, 2009
Colin L. Miller (SIERRA VISTA, AZ USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I had an ordinary optical "200x" microscope and saw a few shaky, interesting things in a drop of water on a glass slide, I but had no good way to take a photo. Holding a digital camera up to the eyepiece was problematic at best. I'd heard of USB microscopes that connected to a PC, such as the QX3. Checking the reviews on Amazon quickly dissuaded me from that. Then I found the Celestron 44340. It had a built-in 2MP digital camera. Images were saved to internal memory and transferred to the PC via USB cable, or to a SD card. I was also concerned about getting good images. In books like Guide to Microlife (ISBN 0-531-11266-7), there were excellent photos in darkfield illumination, as well as the usual brightfield. The Celestron 44340 did both, although darkfield only worked at the 4x and 10x objectives. I got a set of glass slides, glass cover slips, some depression slides, eyedroppers, and containers. After the summer rains, there were many places to collect samples, as well as from shorelines of rivers and lakes. I was able to successfully image in brightfield and darkfield rotifers, amoebas, flatworms, copepods, ostracods, shrimp hatchlings, vorticella, bursaria, diatoms and algae, and a variety of fast-moving ciliates. In addition to digital photos of up to 2 megapixels in size, I also recorded movies of a few seconds to a few minutes, sometimes switching between 4x magnification to 10x or 40x to get more details, and even switching between brightfield and darkfield. If I found something interesting, I could use software to extract a still image. The only CON I can think of is that when the microscope is turned off then back on, the internal date and time resets to 1/9/2031 8:00 PM, so any photos or movies taken all have that date, unless you manually set it every time.
Awesome Microscope!!! December 20, 2009
A. Brown (Lexington, KY United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This product is great! I got it for my two kids (7 & 8 yrs old) for Christmas. They loved it!! It's so nice to have the LCD display instead of looking through a small hole...expecially since my son has eye problems. The magnification is awesome. We looked at money, salt, hair, and the slides that come with the microscope. The microscope is made well (not plastic) and it comes with a great storage bag to keep it safe. This is awesome for school aged kids. I'm buying more prepared slides because my kids are so excited about learning with this "toy".
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