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!

This is a cool little gizmo. It’s not for publication quality pics, but it is helpful for a quick show and tell image. I have a lot of rotators working with me. It is always difficult to explain to them what to look for when looking at path slides or a KOH. This allows me to show them what I want to see before they look through the scope.

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.

Lens on the 10mm eyepiece that came with it was dirt right out of the box. Had a brown flake of unknown substance on it. Also this eye piece is garbage, I can hardly see the detail on the chimney of the House 4 blocks over. If you plan on seeing the craters in the moon you,ll need a different one, as far as deep space objects, or planets, stars, nebula, and etc. Dont even attempt it with this eyepiece. It gets three stars because it actually holds my Samsung S5 steady, it's cheap, and the plastic on the adapter it's self does seem sturdy. If you think you'll get good pictures with this, terrestrial or of the night sky, your wrong. However with a quality eye piece ( my astromania eyepiece set works with it, but Celestron 20mm does not ) good photos and videos can be achieved. Good tho, not great.

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.

I use it for slitlamp images. Fits well only on ziess microscopes.

The idea is cool just a bit fiddly putting it together

Absolute rubbish.

Good for the price, and does what it says it will do. It fits my iPhone13pro and I used it to take this photo on my first try. Much better than trying to line your phone up with a shaky hand in the dark!

I was looking for a way to record/take pictures of what my students found in our microscope labs, and all the products offered by science equipment stores was super expensive and fancy. I literally saved hundreds to thousands of dollars by buying this, and the kids can use it themselves without me worrying about it. I have taken both photos and videos using my iPhone with this adapter, and people are always super impressed. I have used it with classes for a couple years now, and while a student finally broke a knob off (it was bound to happen eventually), I can still manage to use it, and I will definitely be buying another one soon. Super simple and useful! (MUST BE USED WITH MICROSCOPES WITH REMOVABLE EYE PIECES)