MicroPro 48 - piece Microscope Set | 
| Brand: Educational Insights
Category: Toy
List Price: $42.99
Buy New: $24.60
You Save: $18.39 (43%)
New (20) from $24.60
Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 935
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries: 2
Batteries Included: No
Age: 8 - 12 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 13.2 x 10.1 x 3.8
MPN: 5301
Model: 5301
UPC: 086002053015
EAN: 0086002053015
ASIN: B0001FPRC0
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 50x, 100x, 150x, 300x, and 600x magnifications | | • | Perfect for individual or classroom use, the glass eyepieces and power settings from 50x to 600x provide users with superior precision viewing - The 48-piece kit has professionally prepared slides and everything users need to make their own specimen slides | | • | Not a toy, but a scientific instrument, the GeoVision MicroPro includes high - quality components and features that make it appropriate for science learning at any age | | • | The built - in light an drack - and - ponion focusing help deliver bright, clear images | | • | Includes glass lenses, die - cast metal body, and two eyepieces |
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Product Description
MicroPro 48-piece Microscope Set 50x, 100x, 150x, 300x, and 600x magnifications With the GeoSafari MicroPro, young scientists can investigate everything from cells to crystals! Perfect for individual or classroom use, the glass eyepieces and power settings from 50x to 600x provide users with superior precision viewing. The built-in light and rack and pinion focusing help deliver bright, clear images. The 48-piece kit has professionally prepared slides and everything users need to make their own specimen slides. Not a toy, but a scientific instrument, the GeoVision MicroPro includes high-quality components and features that make it appropriate for science learning at any age.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
fun and easy, but with one problem June 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We bought this for our 6-year-old daughter, and she enjoys using it. It is simple enough that she can do it herself. However, within the first hour, the bulb burned out. We replaced it with the spare bulb that came in the box, and that one burned out less than a month later (and we do not use the microscope very much at all, she maybe turns it on a couple of times a week and never for very long). The slides that come with it are not very exciting, but we collected things from the yard to look at, and they showed up well.
 Not overjoyed with the quality but... January 15, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Got this for my 8yo daughter and she has fun with it. In the product description it touts itself as having a die-cast body but in reality, it is mostly plastic and is a rather flimsy piece of equipment. The optics are "cloudy" at best and not very good. I have not experimented much with trying to improve the clarity however we have observed some things under low power with some success. The higher power settings are marginal because the light requirement goes up and the optics are just as bad as the low power setting. The tools are cheesy plastic with a "look of metal" to them. Still, my daughter likes it and that is what counts - she doesn't have anything to compare it to.
For the $35 I paid, I would expect a little bit better of a piece. Maybe I'm expecting too much in remembering the all metal one I had when I was a kid that I wish I still had now.
 What "quality" are they talking about? December 8, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I purchased this scope from a local school store as a gift. Within minutes my nephews were asking for my help focusing. I thought the excessive scratches on the lenses and slides were to blame, only to discover the eyepiece/lenses didn't even line up with the hole through which the light is coming through in the platform! What a waste of money. I'm disappointed that quality-control for a company would allow this product to be sold, nevermind made! (The difference between the models manufactured by this company vary only in the even cheaper painted-plastic "accessories" that actually, laughably, are labeled with "Warning: sharp object" labels!) I'll be calling the company first thing in the morning for a refund so I can purchase something that the boys can actually use!
Don't Buy This! October 28, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this for my daughter for Christmas last year. Within the first hour, it blew a lightbulb. The included replacement bulb lasted about two hours. I called the company and they sent me a new one. This one didn't work at all! And...it took forever to arrive. This is a terrible product and I wouldn't waste my time or money with it.
Very Cheap, Poor Optics September 23, 2007
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
This should be sold strictly as a toy since it lacks any real scientific value. It is very cheap, mostly plastic and low quality. The optics are horrible and the stage is made of a flimsy plastic. My son stopped using it because he was straining his eye trying to focus and keep things steady. The paint was chipping off around the battery cover, and since it's made overseas, I was also concerned about that. I'm sending it back.
Note: I see this company has 2 different models, and from the pictures and descriptions the microscopes are the same, but with different accesories and a different magnification eyepiece.
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