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Veho VMS004DELUXE USB Powered Microscope |  | Brand: Veho
Category: Photography
List Price: $99.99
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Seller: Lema Electronics
Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 410
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 4.3 x 8.8
MPN: VMS004DELUXE
Model: VMS004DELUXE
UPC: 094922207265
EAN: 0094922207265
ASIN: B0025U0L8Y
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | 2.0 Megapixel OMOS lens |
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Product Description
Handy desktop 400x magnifying USB Microscope
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 16
 Awesome concept but.. July 23, 2010
Neal
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
To start, I already own an $800 microscope that has a magnification of 400x, so I thought I would buy this after reading the magnification just to see how they compare, especially considering the price is so generous. I thought that after plugging it in, the magnification wouldn't be perfect, but it would at least be ball park. Not even close. In fact, its a down right lie. The maximum magnification that is claimed to be 400x is actually closer to 100x than any of the others I compared it to using the stronger microscope that I have. The clarity under that magnification is between fair and good, but not great. This is a neat piece of equipment, but it really is just a toy. It should not be considered by anyone that actually needs good resolution microscopy with a magnification greater than about 100x.
 Veho USB Microscope June 15, 2010
T C (Texas)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well built, wonderful technology, easy to use, handy size. It makes an image of the magnification on the PC and can do video as well. I have yet to learn how to do measurements, but it will be useful for my work with maps and reading tiny text and symbols. It will be wonderful to put it to use especially in having the ability to print what I have magnified.
Great scope May 15, 2010
Dave Beightol (Colorado)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Works great. Built great. Even packaged great.
Not going to find a better unit anywhere close to this price.
Buy IT!
Not as advertised April 19, 2010
J. Troja
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The "ZOOM" doesn't work all you're doing is focusing the device and you can't get anything close enough to the lense to be zoomed in at full power. Software works ok though.
 I agree with Paul March 19, 2010
Physics Teacher (Texas, USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Paul gave a very good review of the product and a great mini-lesson on how to use it.
It is a great little toy to play with and is a lot of fun. However, I am a teacher and had hoped to use it in a more serious manner in the classroom. I liked the idea of being able to make on-screen measurements and unfortunately, that is the most lacking feature of the product. With my version of software, I am able to enter in a magnification of 400 while making measurements. It was pretty accurate showing .97 mm for one tic mark on a ruler. I know my degree of accuracy in drawing the line was certainly not within .03 mm so I am happy with the results. The reason I am rating it a 3 is simply because of the difficulty in this measurement process. Because the measurements can only be made at 0 distance (i.e. the object at 0 distance from the end of the clear plastic ring) it limits the types of measurements that can be made. For example the field of view at x20 is about 13mm as Paul points out. If I want to take a picture of anything bigger than a dime (or even a dime) I can't do so because a dime is 18 mm in diameter and won't fit in the field of view. If I back off a little bit and refocus, I can get an entire dime in the image, but then I have no means of determining the actual magnification ratio. Because this limits my use in a school lab setting, other than just capturing images and video which in itself is useful, I rate it down to a three. In all fairness, I don't know the capabilities of competing products such as the high priced pro-scope so they may all work this way.
Another issue is the funky stand that comes with it. It is too short and inflexible to be useful. It really needs to be twice as long as it is with a second joint between the two arm segments. This would allow the user to actually position it in usable positions. A snake type stand would be better and I am looking for a trashed desk lamp to convert it into a stand. The base of the stand also needs to be weighted more heavily to keep the scope upright.
This is a fun scope to play with but these issues are really aggravating and take away from the true utility of the scope. It is a shame that Veho didn't take the extra step to make the zoom actually work and to make the stand more robust. It couldn't have added another $5 or $10 to the price of the product which I would have gladly paid to get a truly useful product.
For now, it is fun to play with and I am looking forward to the next generation of USB products.
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