AmScope M150C-I Cordless LED Student Microscope

Very sharp images, easy to use!

After reading some of the reviews, I was leery of buying this microscope. However, after receiving it I’m glad I did…
The box was in good shape. The contents were sealed in plastic and styrofoam. Batteries were sealed, not used. Everything was new, not reshipped.
The scope has three objective lenses; red for low power, yellow for medium power, and blue for high power. The scope comes with two eyepieces: one WF 10X and one WF 25X (both widefield). That is what the WF stands for. The scope also comes with a power adapter, just in case you don’t want to use batteries. And, it comes with a plastic dust cover.
Someone complained about the scope not having an upper light. I used a small LED flashlight with good success.
As someone pointed out. one picture shows the scope hooked to a computer. This is very misleading, but for the price, it can be overlooked.
I happen to have a Celestron 93709 NexImage Solar System Imager, which I bought to use with my 10-inch telescope. It isn’t much use unless you have a scope that tracks. My scope is manual. However, I found the imager of great use with a microscope. I have another MF10X eyepiece form a less expensive microscope, and it snuggly fits the imager. I am able to take pictures with my computer using the imager and scope.
I bought the microscope for my grandson. It will be of great use in his Biology Class.
One more thing: for those complaining about the scope not coming with slides and extras; the price will not allow it. You get those things with cheaper scopes. This is a great scope for the price as is.

We have so far only looked at a couple of things in this microscope; a small flying bug placed on a slide, and a drop of blood (I cut myself doing some home improvement projects, so captured a drop on a slide). This microscope does a fine job of allowing us to view these things up very close. I’m definitely glad I got this version with the fine-adjustment knob included rather than the less expensive version with only the coarse adjustment knobs.

The microscope itself feels solid and well-made. The 3-element rotating assembly works well and is nice and tight. The LED under-light works well with a nice smoothly adjustable brightness level. The stage is stable, with useful slide clips, and adjustable light aperture disc located underneath. This unit works equally well on battery power as with an AC adapter; for my purposes I’m sure we will only ever use it with batteries. The microscope also comes with a nice dust cover to protect it when not in use, and a secondary eyepiece to provide additional magnification when desired. At the highest magnification level with the more powerful eyepiece, the LED light does struggle to provide sufficient lighting, but you can still make out details on your subject slide well enough.

Honestly, at this price, I am quite happy with this purchase. I wish the LED light was capable of a bit more brightness, but for most purposes it works pretty well. The scope is sturdy and feels like it will last quite awhile. I also wish it had come with a better storage sleeve for the additional eyepiece. Even better still if the microscope had a place to store the extra eyepiece, or came with a storage case, but I’ll make do. Overall, it should work great for showing my young daughter the interesting and amazing world of microscopic viewing.

Great Value Buy
You will be very pleased after buying this microscope, as it is an extremely good option, especially for the price. The ideal user would be an infrequent user that doesn’t not require an extremely high quality internal look inside cells. I personally use this microscope for analyzing semen samples collected from swine. I am fully able to accurately assess motility and morphology of the cells.

How It Can Help You
This microscope will allow you to accurately view cells on a molecular level. If you are looking for a basic entry level microscope I am quite certain that this device will more than exceed your level of expectations. The criteria I used to evaluate this product are pretty basic; ease of use, quality of focus, and light permeability. You will find that this product is extremely to use. The basic setup of the focus knobs are easy to distinguish between the corse adjustment, larger knob, and fine adjustment, small knob, easily allowing you to finely adjust your viewpoint on your desired specimen. I also appreciate the quality of focus this device can provide its users, which after purchase I’m sure you will too. Lastly the adjustable bulb shade allows you to effectively shade the amount of light that penetrates the slide. This will allow you to easily push light through darker specimens or lower for clear cells.

Closing The Deal
Overall, I would highly recommend this product to nearly any entry level user it can come with a few draw backs for a more advanced user such as, inability to see inside cells clearly and lack of a binocular objective, which could be expected as it is clearly marketed as a monocular objective however I do think it could improve the ease and clarity of use. However, this scope has fully met and exceeded all of my expectations for this device and I am extremely happy with this product and would buy it again.

I bought this microscope for my 10 year old because the reviews said it was the best bang for the buck. I would have to agree at this point. We have tried a few other ‘cheap’ scopes that really were cheap. Wouldn’t zoom in, not enough light, the knobs were plastic and broke right away. This one is great!! My kid has been looking at everything he can get his hands on, and I also like to inspect the latest grunge he finds…. And it works really well. The pieces are sturdy and nothing has warped, broke, or misaligned. I think the adjustments are actually all metal? The light is good and bright. Anyway, I’m impressed. Obviously we aren’t pro’s with this stuff, but Imo, it’s worth the money😁