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| Meade 9460 Microscope
from Meade
| | List Price: $430.00
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Features:
- Maximum magnification of 1,250x
- 3 professional-size, turret-mounted objective lenses (10x, 40x, and 100x)
- 2 wide-field eyepieces of 10x and 12.5x
- Abbe-type condensing lens system and iris diaphragm
Editorial Review:
The Meade 9460 microscope comes with a research-level assortment of equipment, components, and features. The five prepared slides will help introduce you to the workings of your microscope. Then, take the five blank slides and be as creative as you want. Use them to investigate plant life, minerals, cells, and anything else that strikes your interest.The large 110- by-120-millimeter illuminated stage has easy-to-use micrometric x-y controls for centering your specimen in the field of view. The eyepiece rotates 360 degrees, and is set at a convenient and comfortable 45-degree observing angle. Meade uses an abbe-type condensing lens combined with an iris diaphragm to give you bright, uniform illumination of the specimen. The microscope's turret-mounted objective lenses, with magnification levels of 10x, 40x, and 100x, can be combined with the two wide-field eyepieces of 10x and 12.5x to yield magnifications of 100x, 125x, 400x, 500x, 1,000x, and 1,250x. Its coarse-and- fine rack-and-pinion focusing mechanism makes this a precision observing tool, and a perfect educational tool for advanced studies in botany and biology.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0  It's not all about Optics... 
Judging a microscope based only on its optics is a bit like judging a car solely on its handling. What happens when something goes wrong?
I ordered my Meade 9460 microscope from ACE (one of the Amazon affiliated sellers). They apparently asked Meade to send it directly to me. Upon opening it, I found:
- missing components (empty `pockets' in the foam packaging)
- loose parts and parts placed in sandwich baggies (like what is euphemistically called a manual)
- some broken and scratched... more info Better microscopes for the money
This microscope is ok but I had trouble being able to focus the 12.5x eye piece, it only came with 1 filter, and the owner's manual is extremely poor. Look at the 'The Microscope Store'. You can get a much better micropscope for the same amount. I highly recommend the OM88 which costs more than the Meade but has many more features. Here are some of the comments for this microscope
"I have spent well over $1500 on microscopes claiming to be 'Clinical or Medical Grade' instruments and have been sorely... more info Very Nice Microscope 
The Meade 9460 is a very nice microscope that will provide lots of learning opportunities and fun for the entire family. We recently purchased this for our 7-year-old son who really wanted a microscope for Christmas. We figured that an inexpensive microscope may not work very well and could potentially discourage our kids and lessen their curiosity of microscopy. So after some research online and on the phone we decided on the 9460. This microscope certainly turned out to be the real deal, and it's also... more info Microscope reviews 
Last year I bought a Meade 9460 microscope. I found the 12.5x eyepiece very dark and difficult to use. The x-y controls works ok while moving slides left to right but does not work well when moving the slide back and forth. Also this microscope doesn't come with a 4x objective which comes in handy when trying to locate your specimum on your slide. The microscope is ok but you can buy a much better microscope for a little more money. I looked around the internet and found a microscope for only 33% more than... more info
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