SWIFT SW380T 40X-2500X Magnification, Siedentopf Head, Research-Grade Trinocular Compound Lab Microscope with Wide-Field 10X/25X Eyepieces, Mechanical Stage, Ultra-Precise Focusing, Camera-Compatible

I know nothing about microscopy but am hoping this will help me look into anomalies with plants during the coming year. Initial checks are good, it's easy to use and entertaining watching yeast bud and various members of the aquatic community in my duck pond performing in droplets on my slides. After playing with it for a few hours now, I can use it confidently and am in a position to work toward achieving results from specimens that don't lend themselves to easy observation. So from my perspective, I unboxed it, set it up in minutes, including a camera attachment and it's software, and it worked fine. I don't have much to compare it to, but focus and positioning are simple and stable, when you take your fingers off, the image is still in focus and stays put.

Excellent microscope for the price, very good value. Very easy to set up and use. This is the second time I've been asked to review this microscope, I don't know why.

A nice microscope, and a lot of microscope for the money. This is the second unit I received, the first one had been bounced around in its travels from China, and was beat up something horrendously, but that isn't a reflection on the device, just bad handling in transit.

Looks good quality and is working fine

Great quality for the price. Very happy with this and easy to connect my mirrorless camera to.

Really good quality, easy to install, doesn't come with slides (the glass) , you need to buy it separately

Very easy to set up and works great with windows 11

Would recommend spending £280 rather than buying the £100 microscopes that are available.

Prima microscoop. Helder beeld, goede (led) verlichting. De focus fijn regeling werkt perfect. Het enige minpuntje is dat het diafragma van de condensor bij het 4xobjectief iets in het beeld verschijnt bij volledig sluiten. Verder werd de microscoop in perfecte staat geleverd.

This Swift SW380T microscope is just about everything I could have wanted in a scope for my research on marine cyanobacteria. For anyone who has been stuck using a single tube standard student-model scope (like my 1927 model Leitz), this is one fabulous upgrade! No more bending down sideways to position the slide, no more eyestrain, no more hours of standing over the scope causing neck and back strain, no more switching between the eyepiece and the c-mount scope camera! No more adjusting the mirror while positioning an external illuminator. The 30-degree viewing angle is perfect, no strain on the neck and back muscles. I can even lower my desk chair a bit. The ease of adjusting the interpupilary distance and the left eyepiece to match the image sharpness of the right eyepiece...these features, while common to stereo microscopes are luxurious. With both the modular trinocular head and the mechanical stage facing me, the stage controls as well as the course and fine adjustment are on the right-hand side of the scope, only the illuminator adjustment knob is on the left, which, being right-handed, makes it easy to work with this unit. The microscope came with a pair of 10X WF (wide field) eyepieces, and a pair of 25X WF eyepieces, and in the turret, 4X, 10X, 40X, and 100X eyepieces, giving a total range of magnification between 40X and 2500X. Now, occasionally, I need either lower or higher magnifications, and fortunately, I already have a pair of 15X Swift WF eyepieces, scavenged from old, damaged microscopes. And I bought a 5X eyepiece and a 0.5X C-mount lens from Amazon...so I just need to order another 5X eyepiece. I also have a 20X eyepiece, again from Amazon, so I repeat that order, as well...which I think I'll do, tonight. Now, I don't often use a 4X objective for most specimens, because my study critters are extremely tiny, so, I put the 10X objective where the 4X was, and took the 20X Plan Achromatic objective from my Leitz scope, and put it where the 10X had been, so the objective series is now 10X, 20X, 40X, 100X. Of course, if I could get a 5 or 6 lens turret, I could... The built-in illuminator is an adjustable LED (light-emitting diode), and should be sufficient for most of my work, although at its brightest, and with the diaphragm wide open, it's a bit dim at higher magnifications. I wonder if I can get a halogen illuminator for work at higher mags??? Anyway, I've tested these eyepieces and objectives against a stage micrometer (also from Amazon), and the system produces beautifully wide fields, sharp over about 85 to 90% of the field, which to my mind, qualifies the objectives as plano lenses. Oh...the C-mount BTER camera (also from Amazon), works perfectly with this microscope on the adjustable vertical tube...so as to be par-focal, in focus at the same time as the eyepieces, the ultimate grace and purpose of having a Trinocular head. Overall, for an independent researcher, someone without university or industry support, the SW380T is a dream come true!

Ich wollte ein Mikroskop haben, welches nicht zu viel Platz einnimmt, einfach in der Handhabung ist und mit dem ich im Rahmen meiner Tierschutzarbeit Diagnostik betreiben kann. Genau das habe ich bekommen, bin voll zufrieden! :)

Appareil superbe et très efficace après une bonne prise en main . Pour personne avertis et très soigneuses .

El microscopio llegó en la fecha prevista muy bien empaquetado. La descripción corresponde al 100% con lo recibido y la calidad del equipo está a la altura de lo requerido. Solo por el peso se nota que es un aparato sólido y además con un buen acabado. Por el precio está claro que no es un microscopio profesional, pero para uso aficionado posiblemente de lo mejor que hay en el mercado sin arruinarse. Después de haber probado uno de mitad de precio este lo supera con creces tanto en calidad de acabados como en nitidez o facilidad de enfoque; en esta ocasión el doble de coste, para mí, está más que justificado.