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 works as described. It will also handle the Plus size iPhones, even with a case. Hint: First attach your iPhone making sure the clamp is above the half way point. Next remove the eyepiece. Line up the hole in the eyepiece holder with the camera you intend to use (if your phone has two cameras) or just your single camera, and clamp that in place. Turn on your phone camera and make sure that your camera can see correctly through the eyepiece holder opening without vignetting the image. The reinsert the eyepiece and drop into the telescope.

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.

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.

Got this to attach my iPhone 7 to my microscope. It worked better than I expected, the image is clear and it held the phone securely. I had some difficulties getting the camera lens aligned with the scope on here initially, but found that taking this off the microscope and aligning them before attaching it was a lot easier. I was so happy with this purchase I would totally recommend this to others. Added a photo I took to test this out of some pollen.

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

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 bought 3 similar products to use on my Microscope. This is the only one that worked as advertised. Very pleased with it.

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)