Description
Price:(as of Feb 27, 2025 10:15:57 UTC – Details)
The Carson MicroMini 20x Pocket Microscope with UV and LED Flashlight Keychain is a versatile and convenient tool that combines functionality with portability. Its compact keychain design, powerful magnification, and additional lighting features make it a valuable educational tool for students, professionals and children interested in STEM or the natural sciences. Whether you’re a student, hobbyist, or professional, this microscope is designed to meet your needs with ease.
Powerful Mini Microscope – Conveniently sized to comfortably fit in a pocket or attach to a keychain, the MicroMini offers an impressive 20x magnification with UV lighting and built-in flashlight.
Great Educational Field Microscope – Perfect for students and educators, this microscope can bring lessons to life by conveniently allowing detailed examination of various specimens.
Advanced Lighting – The MicroMini features both UV lighting and a built-in LED flashlight. UV light is particularly useful in detecting flourescence when inspecting currency or biological specimens
Keychain Flashlight – Clarity can be easily adjusted with the focus wheel and the keychain feature makes the MicroMini incredibly portable, so you’re always prepared for impromptu inspections.
Available in Orange, Blue and Green Color Options (Current Selection: Blue)
Customers say
Customers find the microscope easy to use and providing clear views of everyday objects. They find it well worth the price, with a good built-in light quality and three bright lights, including a black light. Many customers are satisfied with its magnification and ease of use. However, opinions differ on the size and build quality.
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Mariana Gorrin –
Fantastic Mini 20x Enlargement Microscope!
This mini 20x enlargement microscope is a remarkable tool for anyone with a keen interest in exploring the microscopic world! The compact and portable design makes it easy to take on the go, perfect for fieldwork or casual observation. Despite its small size, the magnification power is impressive, providing clear and detailed views of tiny specimens. The focus adjustment is smooth and precise, allowing for easy fine-tuning. It’s a fantastic tool for students, hobbyists, and anyone curious about the intricate details of the natural world. Highly recommend this mini microscope for its quality, convenience, and educational value!
Tiffany H. –
Tried 4 scopes for kids, this one had the best balance of ease-of-use and magnification
You could say I am a microscopy enthusiast. I wanted a scope to use when I’m out with my kids. I wanted something that my 5 year old could use, but powerful enough that we could all enjoy it. I suspect a lot of buyers might be thinking the same thing, so here’s my thoughts on using this with young kids.I purchased the following portable microscopes/magnifiers and tried them all out:* Carson MicroMini 20x LED Lighted Pocket Microscope (MM-280B) ** THIS ITEM *** Carson MicroBrite Plus 60x-120x Power LED Lighted Pocket Microscope (MM-300)* Carson 60X-75X MicroMax LED Lighted Pocket Microscope (MM-200)* Carson 10x LumiLoupe (LL10)I included a picture for size comparison.For our intended use, I expect to get the most use from the MM-280B. The magnification is good enough to suprise you with what you see, revealing details that are still small enough to be unexpected and exciting. Yet it is still easy enough to use that my 5 year old can use it with some help.It’s super easy to focus and very small, smaller than expected. It’s the smallest of the scopes I tried by a large margin. The LED is bright enough to use it even in the dark and still get a good image. Batteries were included.I found that with the other, higher magnification, scopes it was too hard to focus and share with my kids — even extremely tiny movements in my hand would consistently cause the image to shift or knocked out of focus. It was too hard to get an image and share it with my kids on those scopes, even at their lowest magnification. The MM-300 in particular was AMAZING in terms of image, but it isn’t great for sharing. I will keep that one to myself. :-)On this scope, the 20x magnification was good enough to see plenty of detail and still be able to share it with each other without losing focus. The LL10 was obviously super easy to share since no focusing is required and the field-of-view on that one is HUGE. Unfortunately, the loupes only go up to 10x and that does not seem to be quite enough magnification to impress the kids (let alone adult myself). If there was a Carson 20x pre-focused loupe, I’d try that out, but the off-brand options I could find looked pretty low-quality.I wasn’t too big on having UV, but as it turned out this is somewhat useful already. A number of the minerals we have found already are UV reactive.The only drawback is that this thing won’t actually survive on my keychain. It does seem very durable, but I am confident it would eventually be scratched or rendered inoperable if it were to become part of my “everyday carry” and endure frequent nicks and bumps. I need to look into some sort of small case or something. A lens cap/cover to protect the optics from my keys would make this ideal.The other scopes were great for other purposes but I think that if you are planning to let your kids use this, this one is a good choice. If you want something that a 5-year old (or younger) can use without any help at all, then the LL10 is a good choice but they probably won’t be amazed by the details they discover, it will be more of a “mildly interesting” reaction with the LL10. The others have more impressive magnification, but will be hard for kids to use. This one was a great middle ground.
Sherrie Johnson –
Super cool
It didn’t magnify as much as I was hoping but it is super cool. For the amount of money your spending you get lots of fun and creativity, and it is really easy to use. It isn’t as good as a normal microscope of course but for the price you are getting a really good deal I think. It gives you a new perspective on everyday items in a unique way, it’s way better than my phone camera zoom so I wouldn’t of been able to see things in this way without it. It’s really easy to photograph as well which I really like! It’s super tiny so very easy to carry around. The plastic does feel a little flimsy but over all I think it’s sturdy enough to have some fun with it.
mike –
Neat and fun; not a replacement for magnifying glasses
I’m actually surprised how well this works. It magnifies more than I expected (you can see the fibers in paper, for example), and the light makes your subject easy to see in low light. Despite feeling a bit cheap and flimsy, it is very easy to get in focus.I went with this to have around over a magnifying glass. With this the microscope needs to be right on the object, so it might not reach some hard to read things (such as a curved object). As such, it is not a perfect replacement if that is what you need.Despite that, this isn’t necessary just a toy. It works very well for hard to see/read things at twice the magnification of most magnifying glasses. The light is a nice addition, as well as having a UV light; how many people have one of those lying around? Very fun.It is also very small and light. I’ve been easily keeping it in my backpack to show off to friends that I’ve got a handy microscope on me.Biggest downside is I don’t like the button batteries. Not sure how long they last yet. A rechargeable would have been preferable, but maybe the very small size (length is half of my index finger) prohibits that.
Jacquie Keymer –
Wasted Money
I always read the reviews. I can’t believe anyone gave this a 4 or 5 star review. It is totally worthless.I bought 2 for Christmas and I am glad I checked one out before giving as a gift. It is unusable. The image is reversed, the lens came scratched and the viewing area is so limited that you can’t focus on anything. The only thing I think it could even be possibly used for is a teeny weeny flashlight. Keep looking. You can do better. Don’t buy this junky little “magnifier”.
Mr. Chris –
Eu tenho este modelo de 20x e o de 60x-120x. Prefiro este do que o outro pelos seguintes motivos:20x pode parecer pouco, mas não é, você vai se impressionar em quanto isto significa ao utilizá-lo. Quanto mais magnificação, mais difícil é obter o foco, mais difícil é centralizar o assunto e mais difícil é de reconhecer o que está sendo analisado. Um simples furo na mesa vira uma cratera reconhecível, já em um microscópio com mais de 60x, você perceberá a textura mais ampliada, mas terá dificuldade em ver todo o contexto. Com 20x, a proposta de sair e explorar é mais funcional, com 60x em muitos casos você terá de apoiar o assunto em uma superfície ou não conseguirá focar.A construção dele não é das melhores, aparenta uma certa fragilidade, mas a óptica da Carson é muito boa (excelente nitidez, quase livre de aberrações e distorções), ficando acima de modelos genéricos similares.
Sigfredo Ivan Escalante V –
Lo recomiendo para llevar contigo y revisar las cartas de MTG (supongo igual sirve para Poke). Ya he detectado al menos 3 falsificaciones con este chikitín. Excelente aparatejo.
anonimo –
Pude ver objetos con gran claridad inclusive comparado con lo de un microscopio! Para ser pequeño es sorprendente porque puede usarse como lampara, ver objetos con su lampara con selección de dos ángulos eso ayuda mucho. Un llavero que no podemos olvidar!
Zafer Bakkaloğlu –
Elime batan nesneyi çıkarmakta yardımcı olur diye almıştım süper
Megha Bhandari –
Price is too high for a keychain microscope