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I bought the AM411T version of this product, which has 1280x1024 photo resolution. However, everything I say below applies to this microscope too.
This really is the digital microscope many of us have been waiting for. It connects to a USB 2.0 port and pipes the images to your PC screen, allowing you to capture video and still-photographs of your subject. It's hand-held, which makes it versatile. The practical usable range is between 50 and 200 times magnification, which is good for general purposes.
You can put it against any surface that you can get into focal distance (which can be tricky without a proper stand). Focal distance is within ~1" at the highest magnification. You can look at skin, eyes, hair, dust, coins, photos, lithographs, circuit boards, wood, paper, plastic, metal, dust, lint, insects, etc. Anything you can think of. The world that opens up to you at this scale is really amazing. It causes you to look at things in a whole new way.
You can also attach it to a stand, which can be bought separately. This allows you to steady the camera for really sharp still-photo captures, and zoom in tight on very small subjects. You can also use this camera as a basic webcam, though you do have to adjust the focus (magnification?), as it does not auto-focus.
The software that comes with it for adjusting settings and capturing images is surprisingly good. It also has a rim of LEDs around the objective lens, illuminating your subject if the ambient light is insufficient.
For people who want to look at cells and things really at a super-microscopic scale (basically at 500-1000x resolution), this is not quite capable of doing that, of being used in scientific purposes. This is really a more general-purpose microscope. As that, it's pretty fantastic.
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