Best Microscope Accessories
Slide specimens include coprimus mushroom (cross section), dense connective tissue (section), dog cardiac muscle (longitudinal section), dog esophagus (cross section), dog skeletal muscle (longitudinal section and cross section), dog stomach (section), honeybee worker leg-composite (whole mount), house bee mouth parts (whole mount), human blood (smear), hydra (longitudinal section), Hydrilla verticillata leaf (whole mount), Lilium anther (cross section), Lilium ovary (cross section), nymphaea of apustio stem (cross section), onion epidermis (whole mount), pig motor nerve (section mount), pine leaf (cross section), pine stem (cross section), pumpkin stem (cross section), rabbit spinal cord (cross section), rabbit testis (section), sunflower stem (cross section), Tilia stem (cross section), young root of broad bean (cross section), Zea stem (cross section). Microscopes are instruments used to enhance the resolution of an object or image. Compound microscopes use a compound optical system with an objective lens and an eyepiece. (25) Prepared slides Fitted wooden case. Set comes in fitted wooden storage box to prevent breakage and ease handling.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"At the date of this review the description doesn't list the specimens, here they are: pine leaf,coprimus mushroom set, sunflower stem, broad bean root, onion skin, tilia stem, pumpkin stem, lillium ovary, lillium anther, zea stem, aqustio nymphaea stem, hydrilla leaf, pine stem, dog esophagus, human blood, dog skeletal muscle, pig motor nerve, rabbit spinal cord, rabbit testis, dog cardiac muscle, connective tissue, honeybee mouth parts, honeybee leg, hydra, dog stomach section."
"LOVE this slide set."
"I am a college professor and have used slides similar to these many times in anatomy and physiology lab."
"I was able to put them all back in order with the slide list that was provided in the box."
"Goes perfectly with the AMSCOPE M30-ABS-KT2 Microscope Kit."
"Love these."
"I bought this for an 11-year old child and gave it to him along with my old microscope and a selection of blank slides, covers, and stains."
"They are labeled and it tells you the location of the slide, but it would be neat to have a booklet or something that tells us what the different parts of what we are looking at are and also explaining some of the lesser known samples."
Fisheye lens: ● Angle: 180°. Wide Angle lens: ● Angle: 140°. ● Magnification: 0.4X. Macro lens: ● Magnification: 10X. ● Min Object distance: 10-15mm. ● Max Diameter: 20mm How to Use: ▲ Macro Lens and the fisheye Lens are attached together while you receive them. 1 X super wide lens. 1 X fisheye lens + macro lens (attached together). 1 X lens clip. 2 X lens caps for both ends. 1 X microfiber lens cleaning cloth bag. 0.4X Super Wide Angle Lens + 180° Fisheye Lens & 10X Macro Lens, Meet all of your demand! When you use the Fisheye lens, please DO not detach the Fisheye lens from the Macro lens.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"The fisheye is super cool, but expect a small black ring around the picture. The order is. 1: wide. 2: macro. 3: fish eye. I also have a screen protector on my iPhone 6 and this product has a clear image with both cameras."
"I loved the idea of these but when we took them on our trip to Europe we discovered the caps come off the lenses very easily when traveling which caused the lenses to get a little scratched and the pictures to came out blurry when using the wide angle lense."
"I was very excited to try the lenses."
"This particular lens was not a good fit for my phone because the lens on the Samsung phones are a little wider so the lens ended up creating a black frame on the edges of my pictures."
"So cool."
"Set would also be better if it just included two clips rather than the one, so you could keep both of the lenses in the clip all of the time, then you wouldn't have to fumble for 10 minutes getting another lens threaded and on the clip."
"I lOVE my new lences!!!! Two amaZing little lences that are usefull 100%! I Tried it at home, took pics of a condo , and its amazing!"
"The macro lens by itself has an extremely shallow depth of field which makes it tricky to get your subject in focus. The large wide angle lens does work a little better, but there's still quite a bit of barrel distortion and the corners of the image are very soft. Amir: If you want a 5 star review from me you should improve the way the lens mounts to the clip. A twist lock similar to how SLR lenses work would be so much nicer. After a day or two of rolling around in my backpack the lenses have all fallen out of the bag. Update #2: Dropping to 2 stars after using the product some more and receiving 10 separate emails about this review, all clearly generated by a script."
Set A slide specimens include ant (whole mount), ascarid egg (whole mount), ascaris (cross section), Aspergillus (whole mount), blood fluke eggs (whole mount), butterfly antennae (whole mount), butterfly leg (whole mount), ciliated epithelium (section), corn starch (whole mount), cotton leaf (cross section), cotton stem (cross section), cotton worm (whole mount), Cucurbita (whole mount), dandelion fuzz (whole mount), dense connective tissue (section), dog columnar ciliated , dog columnar epithelium (section), dog olfactory membrane (section), dog stomach cardiac region (section), dog stomach pyloric region (section), dog tongue (longitudinal section), dog urinary bladder (section), Drosophila chrysalis (whole mount), Drosophila female (whole mount), Drosophila larva (whole mount), Drosophila male (whole mount), feather (whole mount), fern leaf sorus (cross section), fern root (cross section), fern stem (cross section), fiber (whole mount), frog blastula (section), frog cleavage (section), frog early gastrula (section), frog gastrula (section), frog holoblastic cleavage (section), frog spermatozoa (smear), frog unsegmented egg (section), fruit (cross section), house fly leg (whole mount), house fly wing (whole mount), human skin hair follicle (section), hydra (longitudinal section), hydra plain and budding (whole mount), kidney-injected (rabbit) (section), l. bulgarious (smear), leaf of winter jasmine (cross section), letter "e" (whole mount), lichen (section), loose connective tissue (section), lung-injected (rabbit) (section), mantis leg (whole mount), Marchantia antheridia (longitudinal section), Marchantia archegonia (longitudinal section), mole cricket leg (whole mount), mosquito eggs (whole mount), mosquito male (whole mount), mosquito-female (whole mount), mouse cuboidal epithelium (section), mouse kidney (section), mouse ovary (section), nymphaea of aqustio stem (cross section), nymphaea, (spongy tissue) (cross section), paramecium-conjugation (whole mount), paramecium-fission (whole mount), pea pollen (whole mount), peach worm (whole mount), peacock feather (whole mount), pelargonium, of leaf (cross section), pig adipose cell (whole mount), pig liver (section), pine cone-female (longitudinal section), pine pollen (whole mount), pine stem (longitudinal section), pisum seed (longitudinal section), planaria (cross section), planaria (whole mount), plasmodesmata (section), polytrichum (whole mount), polytrichum antheridia (longitudinal section), polytrichum archegonia (longitudinal section), rabbit ganglia (section), rabbit venae cavac (cross section), ranunculus root (cross section), root bacteria (cross section), shrimp egg (whole mount), silkworm moth antennae (whole mount), silkworm moth larva (whole mount), silver berry scaly hair (whole mount), soya stem (cross section), stem cork cell (cross section), stem-sieve tube and companion cell (longitudinal section), striated muscle (cross section), Taenia pisiformis (whole mount), trematodesmiracidia (whole mount), typical animal cell, typical plant cell, vegetable pollen (whole mount), vicia faba root, tip (longitudinal section), young root of broad bean (cross section). Microscopes are instruments used to enhance the resolution of an object or image. Compound microscopes use a compound optical system with an objective lens and an eyepiece. (100) Prepared slides Fitted wooden case. Set comes in fitted wooden storage box to prevent breakage and ease handling.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"The slides are all nicely labeled and easy to read."
"FOR 50 DOLLARS YOU GET A FINE WOOD BOX AND 100 SLIDES THAT ARE OF GOOD QUALITY."
"My daughter loves looking at these through her microscope."
"reasonable price, and as expected."
"Would give 5 stars except that one of the slides had some hardened resin material on the back of it and I could not get it off."
"I bought these for my son for Christmas and they are great!"
"I found the slides to be of good quality and had a large variety of different specimens."
Best Microscope Lens Adapters
In the classroom, lab, and for any person who has a traditional microscope, Celestron’s new 5MP Digital Microscope imager is the perfect tool to capture high resolution images and 30 fps video. Replaces the eyepiece on your traditional microscope.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"The stock eyepiece magnification being 10x, the 30x magnification of the Celestron imager made the daisywheel's middle lens roughly as magnified as the big one typically is (300x, vs. 400x)."
"It is a program that allows you to put together large mosaics without any worry about alignment, shooting order...just move the specimen around and continue to shoot lots of individual frames. Now select them all in AUTOSTITCH and the program will automatically place them in the right location, blend and even smooth out gradients. Final tweaking of color, sharpness, curves can be done in any photo paint program although I use Photo Shop."
"I have an American Optical Model Sixty microscope- a classic student scope- that I use in my amateur naturalist studies, looking at insect parts, fungal spores, and so forth."
"Basically, you get a fixed pixel density that looks good on a computer screen until you start to zoom in....then the pixels just start to spread out. Then, it allows the microscope optics to do the rest of the magnification...therefore, optical zoom."
Best Microscope Lenses
Slide specimens include coprimus mushroom (cross section), dense connective tissue (section), dog cardiac muscle (longitudinal section), dog esophagus (cross section), dog skeletal muscle (longitudinal section and cross section), dog stomach (section), honeybee worker leg-composite (whole mount), house bee mouth parts (whole mount), human blood (smear), hydra (longitudinal section), Hydrilla verticillata leaf (whole mount), Lilium anther (cross section), Lilium ovary (cross section), nymphaea of apustio stem (cross section), onion epidermis (whole mount), pig motor nerve (section mount), pine leaf (cross section), pine stem (cross section), pumpkin stem (cross section), rabbit spinal cord (cross section), rabbit testis (section), sunflower stem (cross section), Tilia stem (cross section), young root of broad bean (cross section), Zea stem (cross section). Microscopes are instruments used to enhance the resolution of an object or image. Compound microscopes use a compound optical system with an objective lens and an eyepiece. (25) Prepared slides Fitted wooden case. Set comes in fitted wooden storage box to prevent breakage and ease handling.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"At the date of this review the description doesn't list the specimens, here they are: pine leaf,coprimus mushroom set, sunflower stem, broad bean root, onion skin, tilia stem, pumpkin stem, lillium ovary, lillium anther, zea stem, aqustio nymphaea stem, hydrilla leaf, pine stem, dog esophagus, human blood, dog skeletal muscle, pig motor nerve, rabbit spinal cord, rabbit testis, dog cardiac muscle, connective tissue, honeybee mouth parts, honeybee leg, hydra, dog stomach section."
"LOVE this slide set."
"I am a college professor and have used slides similar to these many times in anatomy and physiology lab."
"I was able to put them all back in order with the slide list that was provided in the box."
"Goes perfectly with the AMSCOPE M30-ABS-KT2 Microscope Kit."
"Love these."
"I bought this for an 11-year old child and gave it to him along with my old microscope and a selection of blank slides, covers, and stains."
"They are labeled and it tells you the location of the slide, but it would be neat to have a booklet or something that tells us what the different parts of what we are looking at are and also explaining some of the lesser known samples."
Best Telescope Accessories
Five superior-grade 1.25-inch Plössl eyepieces: Four-element design with a 52-degree AFOV, superb color, resolution, edge sharpness, and clarity. Since all the eyepieces necessary to study the planets and moon in detail are provided, these filters will greatly enhance your enjoyment of the solar system. Six colored eyepiece (planetary) filters.A tight fit is better, so remove the least amount of foam possible before testing the fit.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I have a Celestron refractor and reflector, and they came with OK eyepieces, but with all the choices I have now, 5 different zooms and a 2X (so more like 10 choices) plus the 2X works with my existing eyepieces - The possibilities are endless."
"I have had some of the cuffs around the eye pieces wear down after a year of use, but they really are not important to me, because I use it in complete darkness."
"I like the variety of accessories in this kit, even though only a few are used regularly."
"First of all folks, please know that a "lens" is the glass on the business-end of a refractor telescope, or the optic on your CAMERA. Secondly, any "set" of eyepieces is generally going to be 90 percent useless. That's because most of the higher powered eyepieces in the set will only get used once or twice -- until you finally realize that high powers are only useful on a telescope if you're in a VERY DARK LOCATION, with almost perfect sky conditions (an extremely rare combination!). And if you shop smart, you'll find a high-quality 32mm Plossl and a 2X Barlow -- Televue for example, are hands-down the best production optics available! [NOTE]: These are not Celestron's "Feature" eyepieces -- they are their "accessory" eyepieces, and like Meade's accessory EP's they are only of average quality, and are usually way overpriced, like most Meade/Celestron accessories. My advice is to save for a Televue 32mm or 25mm Plossl, ($110 to $135 online) and 2X Barlow, ($115) and buy a Moon filter online from a reputable dealer (Orion offers an excellent Moon filter [#05662] for about $15, which I've been using since 1997)."
"At the time it seemed OK, since I hadn't bought a telescope since the 1980s, and the 1.25" eyepieces seemed massive compared to the small Japanese eyepieces of the past. The high mag eyepieces, the 6mm and 8mm, are of the lowest quality, and I found significant aberrations in the glass, enough so that images of planets "jump about" as you move your eye around the eyepiece."
"However the image quality is very poor in comparison to what I already have so I opted not to keep this kit."