Top-rated products in the Microscopes category
Here's a ranking of the top rated products in this category. To give you a quick overview, we've also added some key information about the products.
1. Carson Optical MicroBrite plus
Carson MM-300 MicroBrite Plus Microscope
The MM-300 MicroBrite Plus from Carson Optical is a powerful pocket microscope with 60 - 120x magnification. This microscope features built-in LED lighting that provides a bright and clear image. The rubberized eyepiece ensures comfortable viewing. Its extremely lightweight and compact design allows it to fit in your pocket, making it easy to take with you anywhere.
2. Bresser Biolux Sel student microscope
Unique to these models is the Barlow zoom system in the eyepiece: With a retractable additional lens, the magnification can be continuously adjusted up to 2x during visual observation, allowing for magnifications ranging from 40x to 1600x when combined with 3 objectives and 2 interchangeable wide-field eyepieces.
The Bresser Junior Student Microscope features an adjustable LED for both transmitted and incident light, including a filter wheel with color filters and apertures. This ensures that the lighting can always be optimally adjusted. The additional incident light illumination allows for the microscopy of non-transparent objects, such as leaves, small insects, and much more. This makes it particularly easy to get started with microscopy.
The power supply is provided by batteries (three AA type), enabling microscopy even without a nearby power outlet. The accessories include permanent slides and 5 blank slides and cover slips for making your own preparations. Additionally, a dissection kit consisting of a micro-cut, a knife, tweezers, a rod, and a tube is included in the set.
The smartphone adapter allows you to save images on your smartphone or share them with friends and family. There is so much exciting discovery in the microcosm; start now with your Bresser Student Microscope. Available in the following colors: Red, Green, Blue, Purple.
3. Carson Optical MicroFlip
If you are looking for an extremely powerful LED illuminated handheld microscope, the Carson MP-250 MicroFlip is the right choice. The magnification ranges from 100x to 250x. The MP-250 MicroFlip features a flip-up objective base with an aspherical lens system for highly accurate image quality. It also includes a built-in UV torch that is perfect for detecting counterfeit money or spotting other details.
The MicroFlip comes with a smartphone digiscoping clip, allowing you to take photos and videos of your subject using the built-in camera application on your smartphone. You can then share your images and videos on social media or email them to family, colleagues, and friends.
The smartphone digiscoping clip works with all smartphones. Thicker cases, such as those from Otterbox, may need to be removed before attaching the digiscoping clip.
The MicroFlip runs on 1 AA battery (not included).
With the help of this compact handheld microscope, every detail becomes visible. You can turn the LED illumination on and off using the button on the top, which requires one AA battery (not included, optionally available). The LED lighting ensures that the object is optimally illuminated. By turning the upper ring, you can adjust the magnification, and then use the lower ring to focus the image, allowing you to study the object even better.
Thanks to the quality of the lens, this compact handheld microscope can even be used without an LED. It is widely used by collectors of banknotes and stamps, as well as by growers to study their seedlings.
4. Bresser Biolux SEL Student Microscope
The Bresser Junior Student Microscope offers an excellent introduction to microscopy with its extensive accessories. A unique feature of this model is the Barlow zoom system in the eyepiece: with a retractable additional lens, magnification can be adjusted continuously up to 2x during visual observation, allowing for magnifications ranging from 40x to 1600x when combined with 3 objectives and 2 interchangeable wide-field eyepieces. The Bresser Junior Student Microscope is equipped with an adjustable LED for both transmitted and reflected light, including a filter disk with color filters and apertures, ensuring optimal lighting at all times. The additional reflected light illumination allows for the observation of non-transparent objects, such as leaves, small insects, and much more. This makes it particularly easy to get started with microscopy. The power supply is provided by batteries (three AA type), enabling microscopy even without a nearby power outlet. The accessories include permanent slides as well as 5 blank slides and cover slips for creating your own specimens. Additionally, a dissection kit, consisting of a micro-cut, a knife, tweezers, a rod, and a tube, is included in the set. The smartphone adapter allows you to save images on your smartphone or share them with friends and family. There is so much exciting to discover in the microcosm, so start your journey now with your Bresser Student Microscope.
5. Bresser Children's microscope Binocular 20
Playfully experience the world of optics. Two eyes see more than one. With this stereo microscope you can magnify many of the things you find outside up to 20 times. Stereomicroscope for observing many everyday things, such as coins, stones, insects and much more.
6. Reflecta Digital Microscope
The Reflecta DigiMicroscope Professional is ready for use quickly. The microscope operates wirelessly with a lithium-ion battery (3.7 volts/800mA) and can be powered via an AC adapter when stationary. The lithium-ion battery has a runtime of 2 hours and takes 4 hours to recharge. The device provides a resolution of 5 megapixels, with an interpolated resolution of 12 megapixels available. With the 8-fold LED lighting, objects can be magnified up to 500 times. All images can be saved on the device. An integrated microSD card slot allows for a maximum storage capacity of 32GB using microSD cards.
The integrated 8.89 cm LCD monitor allows for direct viewing of the captured objects. Details can be seen in brilliant quality on the high-contrast LCD display. For an even larger view, images can later be displayed on an external monitor or television, as the device features an AV output.
7. Bresser Junior 40x-1024x
This is more than just a classic microscope. This Biolux microscope set is robustly constructed, versatile in use, and can be easily connected to a computer. The set comes with plenty of accessories for an immediate start in microscopy – an ideal gift for Christmas, birthdays, or communions for children and a great introduction to the world of science.
8. Kosmos Discovery Microscope
Incredible what can be hidden in water droplets, dust, pollen, or even hair. With the Kosmos Explorer Microscope Experiment Kit, children explore a fascinating miniature world. Thanks to the high-quality objectives, eyepieces, and lenses, samples can be magnified up to 600x. The illustrated instructions provide a detailed guide on how to properly set up the beginner microscope, prepare simple test objects, and observe them under transmitted light. Future researchers and detectives can look forward to enchanting patterns, cells, and microorganisms that they would never discover with the naked eye in nature or at home. This is a microscope for children and beginners.
Contents: Microscope with battery-operated LED lighting, preparation materials (microscope slides, cover slips, pipette, tweezers, needle, sample containers), and colorful instructions. Additionally required: 2 x 1.5-volt batteries type LR6 (AA / Mignon) and natural as well as household materials as examination objects.
9. Bresser LCD - Student Microscope 8.9 cm
This student microscope features an 8.9 cm (3.5") LCD monitor, allowing multiple people to observe objects simultaneously. It can be used for both transmitted light and (to a limited extent) reflected light microscopy. You can photograph your observations or capture them as a video sequence. The device includes a card slot for SD cards and a USB port. The magnification ranges from 50x to 500x, with digital magnification up to 2000x (4x digital zoom). It comes with extensive accessories.
10. Bresser Experiment set
30 different sample preparations on the theme of animals: 1. Paramecium, 2. Paramecium reproducing, 3. Paramecium dividing, 4. Eye animal, 5. Freshwater polyp, 6. Freshwater polyp eggs, 7. Freshwater polyp longitudinal section, 8. Freshwater polyp with bud, 9. Pair of flukes, male, 10. Pair of flukes, female, 11. Roundworm eggs, 12. Pair of flukes, larva in early stage, 13. Pair of flukes, advanced larva with tail, 14. Pair of flukes during reproduction, 15. Tapeworm, 16. Tapeworm segments, 17. Roundworm, male/female, 18. Roundworm, mitotic stages, 19. Earthworm, transverse section, 20. Honey bee, mouthparts, 21. Mosquito, mouthparts, 22. Mosquito larva, 23. House fly, mouthparts, 24. Butterfly, mouthparts, 25. Honey bee, hind leg, 26. Ant, 27. Mussel, gills, 28. Frog egg, 29. Frog liver, transverse section, 30. Blood smear, pigeon.
