The USB Microscope Lie 

This USB microscope is perfect for my needs...hobbyist watch repair...with the PC screen as a visual aid.

I started out by saying this doesn't need to be a 10 minute video, and by the end I said this absolutely needed to be a 10 minute video. Great job, thanks!

After all of your interesting analysis it would be great if you could please share with us all what the ACTUAL optical zoom is of that digital microscope.

Impossible comparisons, both for the price and for the quality of the materials, but above all for the purpose for which certain microscopes are purchased!

Hello friend, I have barely seen 2 videos of yours and they are magnificent, just do not despair, keep it up, and the content is interesting, in addition to the naturalness with which you express them, it is very good. Greetings from Mexico

Superb demonstration and explanation 👍

Super duper helpful! I'm looking for a portable field microscope for a bike trip of all things, looks like the hunt is still on and could be called off. A full on microscope is just too cumbersome to take on a long bike trip.

What microscope would you recommend with high magnification with a wide field of view? I'm wanting to look through pans of dirt and see all the small granular specs in detail.

So if it's crap, what do you recommend as a USB Microscope or via a reliable app for $125 to observe Wafers (semiconductor)?

I don't want to spend crazy amount of money. What do you think I need to film a turntable's needle while it's playing a record? To see it up close and maybe see some dust and debris clearly. I'd appreciate your reply.

Zoom and magnificent are 2 different things! The digital microscope are just like cameras. It is not saying that the object is being magnified 1600x, it is talking about zoom range. If you had a camera that had a lens that went from 1mm to 100mm that is a 100x zoom. But if you had a 500mm prime lens it would be a 1x zoom even though everything is way larger on the sensor. So if you zoomed all the way out, see how many mm is shown on the sensor then all the way in and divided by how many mm shown on the sensor it would be the zoom range.

Very information video as always, is there any portable handheld microscope is available in market that can be use with haemocytometer...

Anyone have a link to that video he was talking about at the end? It doesn't pop up on my screen for some reason

for whoever bought this type of product and later found the black plastics became sticky, wipe it with 75%+ or 95% alcohol.

That was interesting, thanks. I have bought one of those 1600x scopes for £8 and that to me was wort it for testing, but also to see the odd thing bigger. I knew it would not be amazing, this video highlights this and I'm glad you made it. It does show that as usual corporations use ignorance to promote items using 'sales puff'. It's all about relativity.

3:10 .. also, that lens flips the image-- You can see on your white paper that the image is upside down and backwards without the lens cap.

So excited for my son to be old enough for me to teach him all this! Thank you for passing your knowledge along! ❤

welp i still use this 15$ microscope for my project and work like charm except the to much lagging if you zoom to much

Hello sir. I'd like to purchase this because I deal with used leather shoes. Do you think it's suitable/capable to see the pores in animal skin(leather)? I need to identify if it's real leather or synthetic. Advanced thanks🙂

4:29 If you unscrew the conical piece on the end you can see the cmos sensor inside.

I started rock tumbling and I wanted a microscope to be able to see their crystalline structures. This type of microscope was appealing because it doesn’t use slides to see things. What would you recommend for this purpose?

I used a Carson 250x pocket microscope and a "13MP" cell phone camera and ended up with about 850 pixels per pixel on a picture of a 95.5 DPI display. My Monitor is 24", but as you said, that doesn't change how much detail there is. Carson also makes an 80 dollar solution that is a self-contained USB device, but that's only listed as 457x. And only has a "2MP" sensor. I'm not great at math, but I don't think the overall detail of a 457x image at 2MP would even come close to a 250x image at 12MP.

Dear Bro. You had done a great job and opened my eyes towards the magnification of the subjects under microscopes

friggin awesome video! thanks for the info!

Thank you very much for calling them out on that. On the other hand…that’s pretty sweet for 20 bucks…

Thank you for the informative video.

was that a 12mp camera ? 125x * ~12 ?

I'm legally blind and use a 52" tv connected to my computer as a monitor. Trying to find a digital microscope for mycology. Any idea what direction I might want to go with a digital microscope around $300-$500? It'd be nice to find something that isn't junk and has a crisp image.

Still a pretty cool little gadget. Would you say the quality of the product is worth it for the hobiest repairing/learning to repair boards etc?

it could be same as for macro lenses (with proper factor of equivalence against 35mm format). done and done

I think the real question is is that false advertising

Ive seen carson talking about the gaining more magnification by having a larger monitor. I was like what???

Wow you don't even know that your main panasonic camera is not a dslr it's a mirrorless camera

I'm lost here so what's the optical magnification of the so claimed 1600x microscope

I was going to buy a palliparner digital telescope that supposedly has a x1200 zoom limit. Would that be bs as well?

Finally a new video

This video is a lie. This microscope is perfect for some things. Like smd repairs on circuit boards. If you want to look at anything on a smaller scale. This microscope will do the trick. The only downside is the video quality but it's good enough to see clearly not fuzzy. You won't be able to get a real microscope for that price but this is definitely worth it.

Could you maybe make videos using the Amscope b120, you could maybe look at water samples or something using it.

10X2,5=250? Jupiter maths?. Here in earth it s 25.

I have just tried. The real magnification is only 30x. 1600x is fake.😡

It can make it better having 2mpx resolution instead 0,3mpx if you want to shoot some pics, or the image quality remains the same? (Or maybe that's fake info to) Thanks !

I have similar device, and its magnification is a lot better than you showed, i placed on piece of fabric ant i saw individual strings with it (fabric was sythetic).

that cheap usb microscope is good enough for me. to get that level of detail on the print is amazing

If I have US$ 200 which Microscope, which one do you recommend?

Vídeo muito bom! eu já desconfiava dessa ampliação, mas como não tinha referencia achava que poderia ser verdade, mas de qualquer forma esses microscópios USBs São bons, principalmente para crianças..

Put the new ketchup under the scope … Moon ketchup vs. Regular ketchup … make sure to stop and grab some packets from fast food restaurants !!! This will get mega views man

I have a Bausch & lomb stereo microscope with zeiss optics which I got at a yardsale for $25 bucks Its a $3k microscope!! Never really used it though yet I use that cheapo digital one almost everyday! Repairing inspecting circuit boards and vintage mechanical watches .great explanation cheers from Salt Lake City!

Thanks a lot

Best usb microscope is dinolite. Its just awsome and can be used in any field or application. And they are providing all country do go for dinolite

Big Q for ya! I ended up down the rabbit hole that led me here because after buying an Andonstar digital microscope, I realized that I should have invested in a trinoc optical compound. I'd been fooled by the claims of "4500x" magnification. Now I want to purchase an trinoc compound and get an adapter for my DSLR/mirrorless cameras. The strongest magnification I've come across is 2.5x for those adapters, which compared to a 10x eyepiece seems limiting. Do you find that with a 2.5x adapter and sayyy an 100x oil immersion objective, you can still get very good digital images of biological samples. Im hoping to look at fungal and mold spores. The andonstar digital doesnt come close. lol

How not even 600 subcribers, but good quality. Does nobody like microscopes?

It's actually not press fit. All you need to do is desolder the two pins on the light ring and it all comes apart easily.

Sounds to me like you need to do some consulting for these a digital microscope companies man make you that extra bread because you definitely know what you're talkin about and with your help perhaps they can make a much better product and then you can get extra income none the less very good video

Im expecting it to be 200x and thats more thsn enough to see coepods

10x * 2.5x is not 250x. Did I miss something?

Thx

As biology student, this is perfect. Anyway I think it worth the price. Thanks a lot

That Community reference!!! 😭🤣🤣

That microscope is meant to be used by the electronic engineers who do SMD soldering. It does that job very good. They don't care about the x magnification factor as long as they can clearly see the 0.1 mm tracks on the PCB.

Thats the giant microscope i seen

All usb microscope uses the pc for resolution... 😀👍. It's the interpretation of pigments as pixels of the pc as the culprit...we can improve that... 😀.

you even see the colors its made on

Long live Mirco Safari

Hi, Can you please recommend a digital microscope that has the ability to capture red blood cells …etc.

that USB microscope is more convinience and space saver to my shop. and it works fine for 5years

Is not that they're unusable and they are a notch above a novelty toy, but yes the specs are a lie... Also someone decided to stick c-mount lenses on the "expensive" ones and decided to gouge you for 2-3x the actual price but I don't know if that's the "supply shortage" or an inclination as to where the digital microscope industry is heading. $100 dollars worth of electronics and lenses should net a very useable image for soldering etc...I use an "upgraded" version of the scam microscope (it claims 1440p and 1000x on what looks to be a 2mp sensor) but I get an ok video). The thing that tends to set these apart is not the zoom but zoom in conjunction with how much working space (space between object and magnifier) you get. There are supposed 48mp sensors being sold for like 300-500 dollars that all seem to be clones of a 12mp cube box thing, now certainly the more mega pixels you can fit on a sensor the better the image quality and in theory the if coupled with the right lens the better the magnification. I use the cheap thing I bought just fine though. These little bullet type microscopes do have very severe limits, but for the price of $15-30 are adequate and do offer more than your naked eye.

Mine is exaggerated 20 time and is only 6-50x

Thanks now i know before purchasing this but its an ok item

In saying all that you gotta admit it's pretty good for a $20 kids toy

I don't know anything about this stuff but this was my first video and it was 10/10

So it is better to get a conventional microscope and attach a camera to it?

I wished i had seen this video before giving my credit card number... What a bummer.

im a scientist doctor of radiology and my expert opinion, your all wrong. bioflourecent light beams on the molecular level produce ionic pulses that contemplate the outside theory of resolution ×π√19 so without biometric molicules interfering with the biospere what you have is π ÷ 56. SO THATS WHY

They ain’t perfect but they do the job enough for most things

I believe that LUMIX camera of yours is NOT a DLSR but a MIRRORLESS camera. Looks like a G9 Micro 4/3rds camera?

crazy man

Yup, I see these microscopes, there's even US$54 that magnifies 3000x There should be a new term for microscopes and telescopes and not just magnification, like with speakers, it's not really the wattage that determines loudness but it's the impedance or I think the ohms. God bless.

How is 10x multiplied by 2.5x = 250x? 1:47

Now for a cheap microscope to look at coins easier than a loupe... Is it worth the 16.99.

It's for a pcb not for microscopic enema... 😀

So if it's not 1600x, then what is the "actual" zoom?

Okay, leo, I'm not feeling it. I really need to believe that you're holding An imaginary doody meter

The collimated beam of P.

still pretty darn good for 19,95

Thanks'! Super!

You can’t afford an another $20 microscope to break so we could see the insides? Come on.

It is a lot better to buy 20 usd cheap 1600x microscope rather than your 400x highly expensive microscope that probably cost 4000 usd up. I am 50 y.o man and i use 1600x cheap microscope with some small hacks to repair SMD CIRCUIT BOARDS and other things and it works perfectly.

This P is huge. I have the same x1600 digital microscope and mine goes way deeper. Maybe something is wrong with yours🌸

.. I'd say the answer is MUCH simpler.. When we used COMPLETELY analogue solutions.. (lenses and you looking into those lenses).. then how many "times magnification" actually made SENSE.. It no longer does. IF something is (in real life) to you one mm and you perceive it as if it instead had been in 250mm big.. Then.. It makes sense to say "times", because that is literally what it does.. HOWEVER.. it can still be that two different pieces of equipment with the "same" 250x magnification may still provide EXTREMELY different quality, because of the quality of the lenses used.. (To put things in focus helps, but it doesn't counteract bad lenses).. HOWEVER.. since the POINT of the magnification is about making it easier for the eye to discern small details, and the "times" way of measuring this STILL is EXACTLY the same as it ever was.. Then.. No Digital microsope CAN have any form of "magnification" what so ever.. because how BIG it will appear to your EYE.. will not depend as much on the microscope, as it depends on how big your monitor is.. buy a twice as big monitor.. and the actual "magnification" of your entire system WILL be bigger even if the microscope wouldn't know the difference. To talk about how many "times" something is magnified just doesn't make sense in a digital world; at least not without a shitload of extra job in trying to "define" what a pixel in the out-data is supposed to "count as", and also, the "size of area taken photo of covered within each pixel".. and one thing ~I~ have been missing in even ordinary cameras: Is there overlap?.. Because I dare say that there are NO user-owned cameras with a higher pixel-count than 8 Megapixels.. ever.. so your phone have 48 Megapixels?.. dream on.. you may just do a linear interpolation, and put an AI to GUESS if there is a sharp edge somewhere and what it probably WOULD look like if it was in focus.

Bullcrap meter 😆

It is understood that some chinese electronics are not rated correctly as with this usb microscope, just purchased one, the cheapest one just to get my hand on it, it doesn't run on my laptop because of missing dll's, I instead connected it to a smart phone, it worked. You are correct with your review of it. Thanks.

Hi Sir. Would you be bothered whether I politely ask for you to give me this super zeiss MO? 🥺 It is so powerful, I wanna one in my lab😅

Yes it is a lie, I would have liked to see the video before using it, now I have a garbage microscope

1 min enough life is short

fucksake, how hard can it be to develop a standard for this? Like of the top of my head the process would be just calculating sensor pixels per square mm and comparing it to the zoom capabilities of an optical telescope to make a neat comparison chart. Shit ain't hard

my mom: why is your ipad screen broken me: well i demolished it my mom: what do you mean me: i demolished the like button🤣

Yes it is a "lie" a lie that is 1000 x cheaper thet the zeiss

arigato ...

beam of 'P' - LMAO 😂 Thanks for sharing the truth. and yet humans mislead humans to achieve what exactly?