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 It’s not for publication quality pics, but it is helpful for a quick show and tell image.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.

This is a simple and well-designed device, which I bought to use with a tri-head microscope. My Pixel phone fits with no difficulty. The design of the adapter makes it easy to put into place correctly. The lens (plastic vs glass, I did not check), is excellent. There is surprisingly little chromatic aberration and the magnification is ideal. I was amazed and delighted that this inexpensive device obviated the need for a separate camera, something I had been considering. I get an image that almost equals that which I see through the scope directly. (I was even able to download a separate program to livestream the images from my phone directly to my PC.) I have experience with fine optics in microscopes, telescopes and cameras. I have previously done photography through telescopes and microscopes. This adapter is not in a league with that level of glass. However, l am pleasantly surprised at the high quality of this device for its price. Highly recommend. If I have a chance, I will post a video of protozoans from pond water at 100 and 400x that I did while testing it.

I have a full Nikon DSLR but I get shutter jiggle since I use an eyepiece mount on my old scopes. It’s really too heavy for anything not tri-nocular. I also lost access to photoshop in my new company so really my images weren’t that good. If I did photomiscroscopy often I get a Meiji with a legit camera. Often I use this on the road for inspections. This is small, it gives me an immediate way to communicate, I have HDR most my iPhone, its shutterless. I can take a short video and “tunnel” through the object and share it that way. Only 4 on materials as the lens is plastic and I found it a bit hard to optimize the position. On my 7 it wants to hit the side buttons too. What I figured out was to pop the lens off and then center it looking into my phone camera, but the lens falls out - could be a problem in the field. I would pay 4 times more for a better lens and maybe a software app. I bet this could be used with Helicon Focus for EDF, haven’t tried. Modern phones have decent low light sensors apparently. I already had machined adapters for the Nikon and it fit. They should have several sleeves as an add on. Really, this was great but I didn’t care if it was 25 or 100, if I was limited for funds I give it 6 stars because it takes an eBay microscope and makes it digital for only a few bucks.

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.