5 stars only after short Heimwerkerei

"Super!" is the so gifted 6-year-old this mini microscope and hauling it around with him constantly since then. Finally, there are all things that you can explore. For this age group, the Mini Look things is ideal because it is simple and intuitive to understand. And it fits perfectly in small hands of children. Especially good is the detachable stand, because you then put it directly everywhere and can watch the underlying increases (even dirt is incredibly interesting). Incidentally, a sample holder with cover glass was contrary to the information on this site (July 2014) with my delivery but here.

The battery for the lighting is in the delivery. The white LED illuminates the field of view enormously bright, but is in delivery condition but also completely useless. It projects namely as laterally into the beam path, that they also unshielded lights directly into the eye upward. It is therefore only blinded and recognize them as good as nothing. Fortunately, the problem is easily resolved: I just stuck a scrap of black electrical tape with tweezers on top of the LED. The samples illumination worked fine.

Since, however, a not inconsiderable design flaws, there's two star deduction. Otherwise highly recommended.