Gosky Spotting Scope Smartphone Camera Adapter Binocular Monocular Universal Cell PhoneAdapter Mount- Quick Alignment Version Digiscoping Mount - Capturing Beauty and Sharing it with Your Friends

The item arrived in a small cardboard box within four days of ordering it; came via USPS too, and was placed into mailbox. Made of high-impact black plastic, hard rubber, and metal threaded rod. This little Chinese-made gizmo is quite durable, and as seen by the photos - surprisingly functional and useful depending on what one wants to do with it. I'm retired, so I no longer have my $17,000 Zeiss dissecting scope with digital axioCAM attachments and ZEN operating system to take insect/invertebrate photos. What I do have is a Samsung smartphone with an amazing macro-capable camera (up to 30X!!), and an "old" AO non-zoom dissecting microscope with 23mm diameter eyepiece tubes. What I want to do is take good whole-body "through-the-microscope-lens" close-ups that can be quickly placed into powerpoint slides or made into prints for public consumption, WITHOUT paying $300+ for a digital camera attachment tube or $1700+ for a trinocular scope and digital setup.This adapter comes with a 16X Wide Focal (WF) eyepiece that REPLACES my 10X WF eyepiece when it is removed. That's right - the adapter provides 6X MORE magnification than the original lens through the SAME tube (not BOTH if binocular). When attached, the field of view will be ROUND, not rectangular, but that can be "photoshopped out" with a little common sense (see photos above). From L to R (with actual size in mm), they are: spider (5mm); inchworm larva (8mm); predacious mite (1.0mm); thrip (1.0mm); collembolan (1.5mm); beetle larva (3mm); and adult beetle (8mm). All were taken from leaf litter, placed in same glass petri dish of rubbing alcohol, and each was moved into the field of view when needed by SLOWLY MOVING THE PETRI DISH, not the phone! Just before taking the photo, I used my phone's magnification choices (1X to 3X) to image enlarge, then used the microscope's focusing knob to final focus on legs, bristles, head, etc.Important caveat: Note the difference between focus of the thrip and the adult beetle. There's not much control over depth-of-field in this setup, so the "thicker" the body, the more "blurry" the photo will be except at the level chosen using the scope's focusing knob. Can't wait to try this on a compound microscope!

Our professional microscopist was happy to receive this to use as a training tool for new microscopists. He says set up was easy and screen resolution is good. No problems with the hardware so far, and it's been a few months since the purchase was made.

Bought this to use with my slit lamp, I wanted a way to quickly show patients any anterior segment pathology they might have. It works okay, it's definitely not like a professional slit lamp equipped with a camera but good enough to show blepharitis, corneal irregularities, etc. I'm a little disappointed that the tube doesn't fit flush inside the slit lamp ocular, I have to hold this steady with one hand while driving the slit lamp with the other. But considering that specific slit lamp adapters cost 10x as much I am pleased with this purchase.UPDATE: Been using this for a few months now and I couldn't be happier. I've found it works best with the diffuse light setting on the slit lamp, room lights turned off, and the iPhone's autofocus disabled.

This item is sturdy, but there's also not much to it for $25. It fit my phone but it works better without a case on the phone, because the protective front bowed and made it hard to take pictures. Otherwise, it's easy enough to use, but I didn't pay attention to the note that you have to measure the microscope tube and of course the ones at my school were a lot bigger than 23.2 mm. If your microscope tube is not the specified size this adapter is virtually useless because you'll have to balance the adapter with phone in front of the microscope the same as you would the phone by itself otherwise. Overall, it's a good product but if you're going to spend the money on it, learn from my ignorance, make sure it fits your microscope! My main reason for only giving it three stars is that I feel like it's too pricey for no more than it is. The people in my class that bought ones for less than half the price were perfectly happy with theirs.

I'm taking a college-level anatomy and physiology class and we have a fair bit of microscope work in the labs. I bought this adapter to help make taking pictures of the specimens easier. The product failed in many ways, and frankly it's just garbage.The scope we are using is a Zeiss Axiostar Plus, a $1200 phase-contrast microscope, not a $50 thing as shown in this product's description (and certain users' videos). There is no way to affix the phone adapter onto one of the eyepiece lenses. When I removed part of adapter's lens piece, to see if there was a different way of fitting it, a tiny plastic lense and a spacer of some sort just fell out of it. I've tried to put it back together, but it honestly makes no sense how it was put together in the first place. The instructions are worthless to show you how all the pieces are supposed to fit together, and there are NO instructions or suggestions about how to use this with actual lab equipment.For now, I'm just going to have to hold my cell phone up to the eyepiece with my caffein-riddled hands and hope for the best, like everyone else.