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(More customer reviews)The Digital Eye Scope is a nice, inexpensive, kid-friendly, hand-held microscope. It is USB 2.0, powered from the USB connection, with built-in white LEDS for strong illumination. It has a fixed magnification (100x?) and sufficient resolution (640x480 pixels) to give good color images of cloth, stone, woodgrain, bug parts, paper, computer screens, salt crystals, sand, leaves, ... It can view slides in a little stand, as well as being used "hand-held", in which case you just press the view head against the (flat) surface of the thing you want to look at. All in all, a neat gadget for a budding scientist or naturalist.
BUT: if you have a Mac instead of a PC, be warned that this microscope, although the Amazon information clearly says
"USB driver free Windows XP/Vista, Mac OS 10.0.4.x USB 1.1, 2.0 or above",
there is in fact **no software and no instructions whatsoever** included for this scope, either with the purchase, or on the manufacturer's website. I spent a painful hour and a half figuring out how to make this thing work with my MacBook Pro laptop running OS X 10.5.8. Finally, a solution: for $18 more, buy the shareware program MiXscope ([...]), which is a USB-compatible microscope viewer. With it, you can view the images from the scope, take little movies or stills, etc. etc. Without it, you need a PC.
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* Optical magnification: 100x * LED light source for specimen illumination * Color CMOS Sensor resolution: 300k pixel (VGA) * Fast preview frame-rate: 30fps * Convenient-access snapshot button for image captures * USB driver free Windows XP/Vista, Drivers can be downloaded from website mentioned in the manual* Ground glass optical lenses * Requires 3 "AA" batteries (NOT Included) * Ages 8+
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