USB microscope 1600x from China - review, footage and modification
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- Опубліковано 21 лис 2015
- First thoughts after a few attempts to use it. Had to make my own stand to get any picture out of this. Should have chosen a lower magnification model...
Your pain has perhaps saved me some hassle. Thanks very much! I was debating whether to get the 1000x or 1600x. I want to use it to look at knife edges after sharpening.
And witch is better??
Hey, great video. Thanks for posting.
Great video, thank you for saving me the frustration, I was ready to buy one just like it but after watching this video I realized it is way too flimsy to be useful.
WHAT A bullshit-
if you want to work on the item, it will be mpossible, lenses ae very near th board
Would this work for spore prints from fungus? Im thinking because it will always be flat it would be ideal for spore prints in the wild. Do you have a better suggestion for field testing? Thanks good sir!
Hello, i lost the CD, can you provide us with a link of the setup driver ? thank you
Could u advise me on a microscope that has a strong magnification for showing blood cells for a good price
In case anyone wonders, the divisions of the grid are 0.1mm x 0.1mm, i.e., 100 microns per division. That means that this microscope is good enough to see the details of the edge of a dime, but not good enough to see the details of a red blood cell, which has a length of 10 microns (0.01mm).
+jpmvidal you are right i am afraid. The problem is in the resolution of the sensor. If it was full HD sensor possibly it would resolve a lot better.
So this scope is not even near to 1600x?
The magnification is what you see, thats why I showed the graticule card. In reality, it is not near 1600x. It is the highest magnification available out of all those cheap microscopes. But 1600x is out of reach. This would require VERY expensive optics. 1600x would on borderline of what is possible optically due to visble light wavelength.
ingenious way to make that usb microscope work.
John McInnis thanks!
I have a suggestion for you, which in my case worked very well. Basically I extracted the lens by rotating it, and I inserted it in the opposite direction. So I got a digital magnifying glass. I hope you can try and tell me what you think about it.
I would like to see a video on how it turned out! Kudos.
Yea I would like to set that as well.
Opposite direction turns this into a webcam.
How do you connect it to a smart phone.
I got one of these super cheap usb microscope with great stand (copy of celestron microscope stand with metal pole and fine height adjust). It cost only few bucks more. In addition, I found that if you push focus all the way to low magnification, the clearance beneath microscope is huge - about 5 inches. You can also remove the transparent plastic at end for better clearance. So there is no problem here. Only bad thing I found was that microscope has only 0.3MP sensor, which is unfortunate.
springer low mag gives better working distance, but the 1600x model has only 1 focus point unfortunately :(
Thanks for detail video, so i can maximizing function of my microscop to check coin.
Can’t find an app for iPhone. Thanks for your help.
I really appreciate u r honest advise. I. Too wanted to see SMD MOTHER board on cpu screen , I have just installed it. B4 that I was seeing u r experiment this crap . U gave me some Idea of wooden board stand I liked it .I have learned a lot from ur experiment
TKQ
You can get sticky arrows to put on the spot you want to focus on. The other thing is, you can use a toothpick or Bobbie pin to move the item by putting pressure on the toothpick on the table surface right next to the board and gently nudge the edge. I used to solder chips that were the size of glitter on small circuit boards and you have far better control than using your clumsy unsteady fingers.
Sorry not on the spot but by it. It's easier to find a bright yellow arrow point to guide you like a neon sign to your focal point. I hope that helps. I just got mine and I am going to use it for coin errors. Don't give up on it. I am impressed with it. The arrows are esd safe.
I just got one with a stand, works great
@Nick B haahhahaahahahha
Bought this USB microscope but it doesnt work. I tried Windows, Android and Mac.The LSD lights didn't work. Wrong USB from the vendor as reason of that issue?
have you tried the lower magnification in the same set-up as you have created there?
Rotate the zoom lever. You need to crank it harder?
I found an old USB camera in my junk pile today... and thought that I could try your DVD player lens trick on it.... I've got an old broken optical microscope body coming soon from EBay... this should be fun.
Sounds like it!
if you want more overview of your object than raise the microscope and refocus it. What also helps is placing a piece of paper under your object and rotating or sliding it prevents the vibrating effect of the object. Greetings Peter Netherlands
i made the mistake of buying the same scope as he is displaying. it is fixed at 1600x. there is no adjustability to the unit. i later bought a unit that was a 50x x 1600x that works great.
@@robertjenkins6763 same fvkin problem here! fixed at 1600x, never focused anything, just if the lens are almost touching the object.
I’m just glad China will share its tech with us.
What is good to buy telescope or this thing to repair small electronic
Thank you very helpfull
If the magnification was too great then why could you not raise it higher? If anyone was going to use it for soldering then they would need enough space underneath it anyway.
Do i need to install an App for this? Mine arived today and everything(light work)but hoe do i get to see it on my phone? I have USB cable put in but i don't see what i am filming
I use mscopes, best app I've found :)
Oh my god, cutting a motor open to use as a manual knob IS THE MOST GENIUS IDEA I'VE EVER SEEN, WHY HAVE I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT
Alucard Pawpad lol, thanks :)
Share more of those cool tricks. They're such obvious simple solutions to such simple problems. These kind of ideas are porn for DIY-ers. You pretty much invented a precision knob from a cheap 1-3$ motor! D:
Maybe it's the unsturdiness of the table that's the problem.Have you ever thought of connecting a camera
photo lense to the microscope?.You should experiment see how it comes out.
do you know where i can locate software to use this, as i managed to just pic one up ! cheers, ( for mac)
On a pc it just works as a webcam, no special drivers required, I suppose it should be the same on a mac (can't check, sorry)
can you make Digital Microscope by using ccd video camera and convert cable to usb cable and connected to laptop
If you have necessary parts, then yes , i guess :) ccd cam then usb adapter, well, better off with a web cam i think. Then optics - where from? Have a look at diyinhk - just google it
Should use Caspian u-316, Varioptic liquid lens,
i have the exact same microscope but my os Is mac. would you by any chance know how to configure so its compatible with Mac Ios. thank you
Curtis Porter what problems are you experiencing? this should get detected as USB pnp device, it was rather problem free under windows. Is your mac detecting it but struggling with driver? It should technically work as a cheap webcam from computers point of view. I doubt you will get that software to run on mac though, but that should not be an issue. I personally don't use it at all.
Where did u find the software online
Will it connect to an iPhone 5
I dnt have a cd drive. How can i download the software? Do u they provide any website to download the software?
DURING INSTALATION IT START TO RESTART MY LAPTOP IS IT NORMAL OR NOT? I AM SCARED TO DONT MAKE SOME DAMAGE ON LAPTOP SO I PULLED OUT. PLEAASE ANYONE LET ME KNOW IS IT NORMAL TO LAPTOP START TO RESTART DURING INSTALATION?
Very nice setup you made there to compensate for the bad stand. I will try to do something similar with what I can find. Question: I plug it to my Android smartphone and nothing happens. Did you have to install something besides the CameraFi?
I don't think so. Does your phone support usb OTG ?
Try camerafi 2. Worked on my LG xpower
Good modification...
I bought this one i put it in my phone but i don't get an image.
Do i have to do something?
I put USB cable in my phone
they dont all support phones and some only support windows .. android it only works with some versions not sure what tho
Kalau pakai laptop, nama aplikasi apa?
They are ok but I want the 4k one next ......bit limited on fine detail ,(lighting ) works though
Hi what I wonder is how you connect the microscope to smarpone
+MrCarlos4561 oh :) all you need is a smartphone with USB OTG support (most new have it) and an adapter from ebay. Search for USB OTG. Software wise there are plenty, I was using CameraFi there I think. Cheers!
put glass over flat objects like slides for blood work.
Maybe a lower magnification with higher picture resolution can be better
I like to purchase it but where
jpmvidal has already said it, but I will repeat my own version anyway:
Each division on the grid on screen at 11:26 is 0.1 mm, and there are 5 divisions on the screen representing 0.5mm accross the width of the screen in landscape mode.
Now, the smartphone screen width in landscape mode is about 10cm (the height in portrait mode), which is 100mm. so how many times does 0.5mm fit in 100mm? 200x. What you have mr randomtronic isn't a 1600x microscope, but a 200x microscope that is intentionally mislabeled as 1600x. This thing doesn't have the CCD nor the optics quality for such a high magnification. You'd need to spend hundreds of dollars to get a true 1600x microscope.
+Inimbrium Absolutely agree. By no means I am claiming that it is 1600x - I am just calling it by it's name on the box.
I have purposely showed the division and image from it so you can see for yourself the picture and judge if it is what you want. I also said, that it all depends on what screen you view it on, so on a small screen the magnification will be smaller than on big screen. But in reality even on a tv size you will not see more detail, because it has a very poor sensor with low res. Now, in terms of if it is re-badged 200x - here I must disagree to a degree. So there are many variations of this, some 50x, some 200x, some 1200x and so on. Highest one I found was 1600x, and bought it.
Each one of them is different in terms of optics (all are poor, but higher mag models really do have higher mag than lower mag models.) If you compared side by side the 200x model and 1600x model, than the difference would be clear. In reality, the 200x model does like 50x or maybe less. And the 1600x does as you said about 200x.
Also, the 1600x has only 1 focal point (and very short) while the 200x has about 8cm or more of focal length and 2 focal points (1 higher and 1 lower mag)
Hope this clears it out: no, it is not 1600x, it was labelled 1600x. As far as magnification you can see for yourself in the video.
Take care! :)
So what I'm alluding to is that there's no point in you buying a similar microscope with 'less' magnification. They're all exactly the same, but when sales decreased some wiseguy in china decided to create a variation of 'magnifications', all higher than the original in order to boost sales. I bet all of these microscopes are 200x, even ones looking slightly different as they would replace the outer casing, again to boost sales. I've come to notice this phenomenon a lot in cheap ebay china goods, especially electronics. But maybe I'm wrong. If you get another and it truly has a different magnification, post another vid :D
Hi, no, you are not correct. Although in reality none of them has the clamed magnification, the optics are different inside in different models. I will try to get one that has 200x and show this on vid. Sensor and case are identical though. But it's not a case of simple re-badging. 200x when you do same calculation for divisions visible on phone screen will be a lot lower than 800x for example. Also, as i mentioned before, all models except 1600x have 2 magnification levels (focal points), while 1600 has only 1, very short one. With 200x you can have as much as 10-12 cm distance from object, with 1600x its not possible, you have only about 1 cm max. Hence they are not the same. Hope this explains it better.
Oh ok, fair enough. I get it now, so the idea of the two focus points is that it functions like a 2 preset zoom or something?
Inimbrium yep, that's exactly that. you have high magnification with one shorter focal length, and lower magnification, wider angle at greater focal length. this microscope has only one, very short one.
Is there a way to repair the cord? Light no longer works.
dundeedell1960 yes, that should be easy
The stand supplied with this camera is USELESS! The arm is very short and it moves in a 45 degree arc which is very limiting if you need height.
To get useful vertical adjustment I suggest this:
1. Place scope and stand on a flat surface like a table top.
2. Hold the base of the stand and push the scope down so the front ring is flat on the table and the arm is parallel with the table top.
3. Tighten the screw on the arm so it's firm and cannot move.
4. Place the stand and scope on top of a pile of thin books or wood pieces and adjust the height by adding or removing books/wood pieces.
Can you please tell me where I can get a software for this?
Thanks
+Mehul Chauhan
google play store. I used CameraFi here.
do you have a link?
What is the maximum resolution of the camera shots?
The sensor is I think VGA, so anything above that is interpolated in software (pointless from quality point of view)
Do you sell them 1600 or ????
Can this technically detect bacteria in food?
This advertise that it is 1600x zoom. So technically it can detect bacteria colonies that can be detect with 400x to 1000x?
I tried a 1600x and had the same problem, i.e. minute depth of field making focus a nightmare. The 1000x is quite usable, however. It would benefit from a better stand though.
Bruce Esinem why don’t u press zoom button on side to focus?
you can by a magnifying glass with 1 euro,it focus asap and and has perfect image..why dont you buy one??? because you need to see whats on 1600X. it worths the pain to focus.If you bought this to inspect electronic chips then its not for you.wrong buy!
The reason for the purchase was curiosity if you ask.
Excellent
What app do I download
Which app is it
Might sound stupid, i have the OTG cable, but i cant see it on the android phone, how do i start the microscope or the app or the settings to get it work? thanks!
Bladrov download the app from play store. there are many, i used camerafi i think. search for usb microscope :)
Thanks very much, but i still see everything black in my computer and my android XD is anything else to be done to start the microscope?
Bladrov no, i didnt do anything else. maybe it is faulty? not sure why you are not getting the picture, but if no picture on both pc and droid, this would suggest fault with camera itself.
What is the app name for Android?
what type camera you use for this video
+Himanshu Tiwari nothing special actually, sony DSC-QX10. What are your thoughts on the video and sound quality?
its quality very good. but i want a camera only for teaching. any suggestion.
not sure what exactly do you mean for teaching only, but I can recommend any of the modern top end smartphones. Those seem very capable and usually you cen get them for cheap through the mobile phone company.
thanks for your suggestion.
hi, i'm having trouble finding the application that will work. Please help :)
There are plenty of those in Play store. I used camera fi as far as i remember. Please make sure your phone supports USB OTG, otherwise none of the apps will work...
I connected to an older tablet and i use USB/Web Camera and set resolution to UVC lower settings 120*240 or similar.CameraFi has high resolution modes and it didnt work in my case.
*Hi, i get the same, but I have no cd-rom, would you send me link to the drivers as iso file on google drive, please*
+Maratimus Arslanov Hi, sure. I have been looking for the microscope box for a few days now. It is somewhere... as soon as I find it I will upload it for you.
There you go:
drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B81CLAyuQsDzUFNtTWZUb1JFTUU?usp=sharing
I found the box finally. That is entire CD content both in .zip and uncompressed. Enjoy.
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Wow!!! That is way cool!!
I CANNOT GET THE SOFTWARE TO WORK!
Can we connect this to android
Yes, that's what I did.
I think You should press zoom button on side of microscope to quickly zoom rather than trying to do it manually....
Sachith Amarakoon that is part of the problem with this - at high magnification can't touch the microscope. Even floor vibration can take things out of focus. Touching the microscope would probably take object way out of view.
randomtronic isn’t it auto focusing after click that button. I saw in other video it’s getting auto focused.
Sachith Amarakoon nope. The button is for "snap" - it takes a picture in the connected app. A shutter trigger in other words.
randomtronic there is another button for zoom in the other side of snap button. Isn’t it?
Where did you buy this?
+james tan on aliexpress, the usual for obscure Chinese item.
Good people, I need a driver !! where to get it? cdrom does not work
I didn't use anything from the cd. software for the phone was from play store, and on pc it worked as generic webcam, no driver needed. Maybe something has changed since?
@@randomtronic Thank you very much for your responsiveness! I found an application on the play market for a smartphone - it turned out. I did not find drivers for the laptop on the network, but also connected it. Had to blow and clean the CDrom from dust, and it worked).
I hope you got your money back. It works just fine for me.
I suppose they could have made the stand weigh 10 pounds, but then your shipping would have been 50 bucks
hola randomtronic
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link pleas ?
Sorry, but last time I checked, this listing did not exist anymore. But if you go to AliExpress and look for usb microscope 1600x there are many more.
did you test it with insects or, better, smaller creatures?
+jeppius No, i did not - not my kind of thing I guess. I could try though. I will keep an eye for something to look at, but I think the magnification is far too great.
I just remembered, I have some microscope slides with random stuff - I will shoot a video with it when I get a moment.
randomtronic
Can you see blood cells with that?
Yes, although cheap optical microscope would probably be more suitable I think.
nice do you have a amazon link or the name of the microscope?
Don't have a link, but search for "1600x usb microscope" - that is the name.
thanks for your attention and I found
what about iphone???
+BlueFlamesHD1 from google: Yes iPhone does support USB OTG. But it supports only limited types which are sold especially for this purpose. These are accessible only via some limited apps which are provided by their Sellers. For Ex :- SanDisk sells iXpand Flash Drive.
So check if there is an app in app store for the microscope.
Wonderfull
what about iPhone???
+BlueFlamesHD1 sorry, don't have one. Not my thing...
For the stand just make a rectangle out of plywo I d and screw the base in to it
I did :)
Then you would have a piece of plywood that was worth more than the microscope!
He would still have the problem of focusing.
What is the Pixel quality?
Marketed as "1920 x 1080" but you only ever get 640 x 240...
Yep, the sensor is VGA
Did you now how much I can see with it?
I means can I see 0.500 mm with it?
Easy. Even 0.05.
@@randomtronic thank you
Don't let this review, or the comments underneath put you off this type of digital microscope. I have a 1000x model from amazon that cost about £20.00. And the image quality is much more clear than the one shown in this video. Also I didn't have any issues with the stand. It is sturdy and I have always managed to get it into the desired position. Great video though, I found it very insiteful.
it wouldn't be bad if you would post a name of that model you bought on amazon? without this information is your post completely useless
YOU CAN NOT FOCUS ON 1600X and guess what....between 1000X and 1600X there is a whole world that you ll never see! Of course you can focus fast and have better image because you see nothing!
Ha which flavour, Brilliant
if you want to buy one of these microscopes, you need to purchase a separate actual stand like your makeshift one.
But i think you missed the whole point about that microscope. The way these USB microscopes works is that you put them at some distance from the object and then use the wheel to focus. The major issue on this particular model is the extremely shallow depth of field.
On the other hand, its extremely cheap stuff, so dont expect miracles.
on linux it will run out of the Box;)
...at least on a laptop with debian or ubuntu .
i will invest a little more soon...something with hdmi output ;)
becsuse 1st..the delay and 2nd the working space.
greetings and thumb!
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I put the birdshot in a shell, put the shell in a shotgun focused it and blew the thing into the next world. End of problem.
It seems, they dont know difraction theory of microscope - in optical range can't be magnification above 100.
Easy to understand - niked eye allow to see 100 um object, but if object shorter, than wavelength, you will see only diffraction picture. Since green light is about 0.5 um, it gives magnification 200. But need to take into account, to see object about 0.5 um, you have to collect ALL beams in 2 pi steradian, what practically cant do..
Yes, you can multiply numerical magnification, but this is only mathematics. Physics says no such magnification until you use X-rays.. 1600x can give only electronic microscope
you should have bought the one with the adjustable stand, makes it 1000x easier to get a focus on these things.
+wrigzor yeah, didn't think much of this when was buying this. But I guess the cnc one is even better ;) cheers!
is this true it magnifies 1600x ?
That is a complex question. Technically yes. But also no. Let me elaborate :)
There are 3 factors affecting how much it will magnify:
1.Optics (limited due to diffraction, max about 1500x)
2. Sensor resolution - in this case 640x480, so not that great, but does the job. Higher resolution sensor would provide more detail, so you could "zoom in " further
3. Most importantly - the screen you are watching this on. On my phone the magnification will be much smaller compared to when connected to 60 inch TV screen.
So technically, you can get 1600x from it. In practice, I have not actually measured this, but probably it is somewhere close to the number. Maybe I should measure this, but then, what screen do I use? On the phone it will be maybe 300x measured on phone screen and compared to the sample. but then the same image later on youtube on 21 inch monitor may be somewhere around 1200x. So... you get the idea :)
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Use this with a magnifying Glass.
Good review.. good video. helped a lot. I have subscribed. see you in my videos if you are free. all the best.
please driver and 1000x for windows 7 ?
+SHOP CEL Assistência e Atacado i left a software download link in comments already. This worked ok with win7.
You're the 5th video that completly skipped the hard part, problems with drivers and software. I had to improvise but I won't tell you 🤔
what drives do I need please tell
Same issues here. Windows 10 will not load from the disk that came with it. It did load about 2 yrs ago and I used the microscope frequently for a few months. Just tried again and it will not re-load the driver. Any suggestions?
At 1600x one should be able to see cells structures, not like these. Totally faked advertisement. Knowing that Chinese loves to exaggerate, next time look at an advertised 10milx scopes for that might almost be 1600x.
It is expected to be not what they claim. I only call it by the name on the box and show what it actually shows. This way one can make their own opinion on whether this is suitable for their needs. Cheers!
@@randomtronic hey! Nice review, thanks. Did you manage to find something good under 20$ range? I would look at my microbevels when sharpening knives and tools. Thx!
Pls Android APS please
Just a word to the unwise. These Chinese USB Microscopes have a real magnification of 25x to 40x only. They are in essense single lens webcams. they will NOT magnifiy to 100x, 200x, 500x or anything above. It is false advertisement. As proof, even the most expensive professional compound optical lab microscopes, costing thousands of dollars are able to reliably magnify to around 1000x, due to the restriction imposed by the wavelength of light itself. Physics itself limits optical magnification. Search "microscope" on Wikipedia for full explanation.
can't 1000x.. 1000x you can achieve only using UV, where no transparent material
How much madifacaction does it really have that doesn’t look like 1600x
Good video I got one and to get it to work has been a nightmare to be honest it’s crap 💩 it’s cheap and it rubbish in my opinion would definitely not recommend it. I’m going to find something decent and pay the money......
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Thank you - unfortunately I am not entirely sure I understand your comment. Anyway - Greetings!