Plugable USB Digital Microscope 250x, 2MP Micro Camera with Flexible Arm Stand - Handheld USB & USB-C Microscope for Adults & Kids, Windows, Mac, ChromeOS, Linux, Android, iPad Compatible

Works great, instructions could be better, but function is there and quality is very good.

I've tried a handful of USB microscopes and this one is the best so far. Two things warrant mention. The first is the camera adjustments available under Windows and the other is resolution. The Plugable software (Windows version is all I've used), which requires download, can be set to auto adjust brightness but it can be manually adjusted too. My application requires locking exposure and this microscope can do it. That isn't the case for the other microscopes I've tested. It also isn't a feature mentioned by manufacturers. For my application, autoranging is undesirable. The ability to control exposure makes this scope stand out and why I like it so much. I am baffled by the magnification numbers given by manufacturers. This scope gives equal or higher magnification compared to others claiming 1600X. To change magnification, the scope is positioned above an object and focused. There is no zoom. All the others I've tried operate the same way. I've enclosed results at distances of 0, 20 and 40 mm from the clear plastic guard showing a 1 mm scale. I've also shown a penny's date at 0 and 40 mm. A penny is nominally 19 mm with 1 in the date being about 1.17mm or so. While the scope is great, I am not a fan of the flexible mount when operating at maximum magnification. Touching the microscope to focus or adjust lighting causes annoying movement. It is easy to get in a seemingly endless loop of adjust, move the object, readjust. I have a more rigid stand and find it to be far easier to use due both to rigidity and gears to move the microscope up and down. Circling back to software control, the camera app native to Windows can be used with add-on setting apps to set exposure and other options. Other USB microscopes have most of these setting greyed out whether in the Windows settings or in the apps supplied. They just aren't available.. I find the Plugable app does everything I want to do and does it quite nicely. Still pictures, videos and time-lapse are all available.

Satisfied with my Purchase, happy customer 😀

This does a great job. Works with Windows. Just won’t work with my I Pad.

If you are patient, then you can set up this microscope light. By the time you "figure out" how to download or what, since you are provided a URL to type into a browser to download the software that will allow the microscope to function, there are no instructions on how to do anything beyond that.So you are left with taking upwards of an hour to "figure out" how to install the software. I was going to install the software on my iPhone. But, only because there is nothing to download for iPhone (there is for Android), I had to download to my tablet.The server where the software is found is extremely slow. So the download for the software is timely. Once it's downloaded it took "more" than 20 minutes for the software to install. Oh...I'm a Web developer by trade for nearly 25 years. So if there is any question about my technical skills, that's no longer a question.After the software finally completes installing, you'll spend at least an hour trying to "figure out" how to set the focus, brightness, hue, saturation, contrast and many other settings. Why? Because if you don't, the picture is CRAP!Once you go through all the settings and "figure out" the best clarity for your microscope images, you move on to "HOW" to take a picture. You also must set "which" camera you are going to use. The one on your tablet or the microscope - seems obvious, but you have to "figure out" where to change that.Once you switch to the microscope, all those settings have to be addressed in order to get a clear image. Be careful! If you hit the wrong button the camera will take pictures every few seconds until you "figure out" how to stop the camera from taking shots automatically and indefinitely.After you get the settings as you want, you "can" take good shots. But the microscope better be on a tripod (or the stand that comes with the device) because you'll never take a decent picture holding the microscope in your hand.Two hours after beginning the "how to use the microscope", I took a couple of good pictures. Finding the pictures after you turn off the microscope is another "figure it out".So, if you are very patient, then purchase this microscope. If you are hoping to find something simple to use and simple to set up, look elsewhere! Even your child won't be able to "figure it out" - regardless of how good they are figuring out a phone or other technical devices that you can't.