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# 240V LED illumination with brightness control x40 to x800 magnification range Full mechanical stage with coaxial controls The Apex Practitioner Microscope

**Brand:** apex microscopes
**Price:** $1014.83
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🔬 Elevate your vision—where precision meets passion.

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** The Apex Practitioner Microscope by apex microscopes
- **How much does it cost?** $1014.83 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Best For

- apex microscopes enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted apex microscopes brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Built to Impress & Last:** Robust metal build, 360° rotating head, and a 2-year no-quibble warranty make this a professional-grade investment you can trust.
- • **Ready-to-Use Starter Kit:** Jumpstart your microscopy journey with free plain and prepared slides plus coverslips included—no extra purchases needed.
- • **Illumination on Your Terms:** Adjust brightness seamlessly with state-of-the-art 240V LED lighting and iris diaphragm for perfect clarity every time.
- • **Effortless Specimen Navigation:** Full mechanical stage with drop-down coaxial controls and double vernier scales ensures pinpoint accuracy and smooth slide movement.
- • **Precision Magnification Mastery:** Explore specimens from cellular details to intricate microstructures with a versatile x40 to x800 zoom range.

## Overview

The Apex Practitioner Microscope is a professional-grade instrument offering a broad magnification range from x40 to x800, powered by advanced 240V LED illumination with adjustable brightness. Featuring a full mechanical stage with coaxial controls, an Abbe condenser with iris diaphragm, and a 360° rotating head, it delivers precise, smooth specimen viewing. Supplied with a free starter pack of slides and coverslips, this robust metal microscope is backed by a 2-year warranty, making it ideal for students, educators, and professionals seeking high-quality microscopy at an accessible price.

## Description

The Apex Practitioner Plus is a modern extremely well made microscope with a professional standard laboratory specification. It is used for looking at specimen slides and can magnify from x40 to x800. Some of the features include inbuilt 'state of the art' 240 volt powered LED illumination with rheostat brightness control, full mechanical stage with drop down coaxial controls. Abbe condenser with iris diaphragm and focus control. Fully rotating head. Accessories that can be purchased separately include, a measuring eyepiece and carrying case. Our range of prepared slides and microscopy kits are ideal for use with this microscope. To get you started we include a free starters pack of slides, coverslips, and a few prepared slides.

Review: Small budget top quality! - This microscope was packed very well and delivered in double quick time. I opted for the Free delivery which should take longer, but I ordered this item on Saturday and it arrived on the Monday. Really tip top. The microscope itself is a robust item that has the feel of a quality instrument and this proved to be reinforced by the performance. This model dose not only come with 2 eyepieces, a 10x and 20x, 3 Objectives, a 4x, 10x and 40x, it also has a whole range of features one would expect from a much more expensive model. From top to bottom it has, a 360 degree rotating head, mechanical stage with adjustable stop, under-stage Abbe condenser with iris diaphragm and focus control plus filters, coarse and fine focus and adjustable illumination. Now to performance. The Apex Practitioner dose not disappoint, in fact it impresses. It is made easy to start using the microscope as it is supplied with two sample slides, I do not know if they are the same slides for every instrument but mine came with a Mantis leg and the leg of a Honey Bee. It is worth noting at this point that the package is also supplied with a box of 50 blank slides and a box of cover slips. As soon as you place one of the sample slides on the stage and peer down the eyepiece, you know this is quality, and it just carries on through the objectives. I took some time deciding which make and model to go for with my budget of £100, and I am so pleased I opted for this one it will I believe provide me with many years of pleasurable viewing. If you are a student on a tight budget of a parent wanting to provide your offspring with their first microscope, you will not be going far wrong by purchasing the Apex Practitioner.
Review: Low cost High quality microscope - Having taken in a pair of underweight hedgehogs I discovered that it was necessary to have a microscope to check for parasites. Hedgehogs live with parasites but the stress of being captive reduces their ability to supress them. So a bit of poo exploration is necessary. After some research I settled upon the Apex Practitioner and what a good choice that was. It is well made and has everything you could need in a microscope. Adjustable brightness LED, an Iris to change depth of field. A couple of coloured filters that fit over the LED. A quick action slide holder, with up/down left/right movement. Coarse and fine focus. About 5 samples and 5 unused slides + cover slips (extremely thin glass to go on top of a sample), just enough to get you started. 2 x very acceptable eyepieces x10 and x20. It also has a couple of coloured filters that go on top of the LED. 3 x object lenses As with any optical device very high magnifications are not as good as lower ones. I use the lowest x40 the most with the x 100 sometimes. At x40 you can easily see plant cells and the little nasties that invade poor old hedgie. The supplied eyepieces work well but I found the exit pupil wasn't great for my elderly eyes so I bought a x10 wide angle spectical wearers E/P which is better. This is not unusual, I have telescopes and the supplied E/Ps are OK but you can buy better ones. It keeps the initial purchase price down. I've sucessfully used it to make photos using a DSLR. I also made an interesting discovery. Normally the E/P is removed and replaced by the DSLR with a 23.2mm adapter but I found that if the E/P is left in place and the DSLR (without lens but with E/P adapter) is placed close to the lens, it captures all of what the lens sees. The scopes focusser can be used to focus. This works with all magnifications. For a stable setup you'll need a tube that holds the DSLR + adapter (23.2mm) and fits over the E/P and the microscope support. What I like most about this scope is that all of your money goes on the scope, no kits or accessories. This is a serious microscope and not a toy but it would be good for an older child. I'm amazed at what you get for the price. n.b. between them the hedgies had roundworm, lungworm and Fluke. One was quite poorly having the last 2. After treatments both are now well, getting fat and looking forward to their release in Spring. They think the Apex Practitioner is Magical :-)

## Features

- The Apex Practitioner is our most popular microscope and has standard RMS thread objectives and wide field eyepieces
- Objectives x4, x10, and x40 with eyepieces x10 and x20 giving a magnification range of x40 to x800. Free starters pack of plain slides, coverslips and already prepared slides. Attache type carrying case available as an accessory.
- LED illumination with focussing Abbe condenser with iris diaphragm. Coaxial coarse and fine focus controls
- Full Mechanical stage with drop down coaxial controls and double vernier scales.
- The Apex Slide Making Kit or Starter Slide Set and the Apex Minigrab are ideal accessories for this microscope.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B001BPQL4C |
| Best Sellers Rank | 60,959 in Business, Industry & Science ( See Top 100 in Business, Industry & Science ) 12 in Stereo Microscopes |
| Brand | Apex Microscopes |
| Colour | Grey |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (250) |
| Date First Available | 22 Nov. 2008 |
| Guaranteed software updates until | unknown |
| Item model number | Apex |
| Package Dimensions L x W x H | 39.6 x 27.2 x 19.8 centimetres |
| Package Weight | 3.12 Kilograms |
| Part number | Apex |
| Style | Metal |
| Warranty description | The Apex Practitioner has a full no quibble 2 year guarantee. |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Apex Microscopes
- **Colour:** Grey
- **Light source type:** LED
- **Magnification maximum:** 800.00
- **Material:** Metal and Glass
- **Model name:** The Apex Practitioner
- **Objective lens description:** Achromatic
- **Power source:** Corded Electric
- **Real angle of view:** 30 Degrees
- **Voltage:** 240 Volts

## Images

![The Apex Practitioner Microscope - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/518FPCjS-PL.jpg)

## Questions & Answers

**Q: can i see bakteria?**
A: Like Pat I look at fungi spores. I find I do not need to use the x100 oil objective to see some surface detail on spores. I have never observed spores as small as Pat as mine are more like 6 to 13µm (I have a calibration slide) and I have no difficulty in seeing detail and even taking photographs through the eyepiece. A lot depends on good adjustment of the illumination optics to provide good contrast. Using various stains may help.

**Q: Can you plug into your computer**
A: you can only plug in the apex grab camera into the computer. The Apex grab camera fits the microscope but comes sepaparately.

**Q: can see demodex mites easy?**
A: Haven't the faintest, but if they are there it probably will. A very well made instrument and excellent value for money, I would highly recommend it as a solid basic microscope for a science student, that will cope with most things.

**Q: does this unit use only 240V or can I use 120V as well?**
A: Dear James CzilliUnfortunately you can not use 120V.RegardsCherApexmicros

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Small budget top quality!
*by M***R on 8 November 2010*

This microscope was packed very well and delivered in double quick time. I opted for the Free delivery which should take longer, but I ordered this item on Saturday and it arrived on the Monday. Really tip top. The microscope itself is a robust item that has the feel of a quality instrument and this proved to be reinforced by the performance. This model dose not only come with 2 eyepieces, a 10x and 20x, 3 Objectives, a 4x, 10x and 40x, it also has a whole range of features one would expect from a much more expensive model. From top to bottom it has, a 360 degree rotating head, mechanical stage with adjustable stop, under-stage Abbe condenser with iris diaphragm and focus control plus filters, coarse and fine focus and adjustable illumination. Now to performance. The Apex Practitioner dose not disappoint, in fact it impresses. It is made easy to start using the microscope as it is supplied with two sample slides, I do not know if they are the same slides for every instrument but mine came with a Mantis leg and the leg of a Honey Bee. It is worth noting at this point that the package is also supplied with a box of 50 blank slides and a box of cover slips. As soon as you place one of the sample slides on the stage and peer down the eyepiece, you know this is quality, and it just carries on through the objectives. I took some time deciding which make and model to go for with my budget of £100, and I am so pleased I opted for this one it will I believe provide me with many years of pleasurable viewing. If you are a student on a tight budget of a parent wanting to provide your offspring with their first microscope, you will not be going far wrong by purchasing the Apex Practitioner.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Low cost High quality microscope
*by D***N on 15 December 2019*

Having taken in a pair of underweight hedgehogs I discovered that it was necessary to have a microscope to check for parasites. Hedgehogs live with parasites but the stress of being captive reduces their ability to supress them. So a bit of poo exploration is necessary. After some research I settled upon the Apex Practitioner and what a good choice that was. It is well made and has everything you could need in a microscope. Adjustable brightness LED, an Iris to change depth of field. A couple of coloured filters that fit over the LED. A quick action slide holder, with up/down left/right movement. Coarse and fine focus. About 5 samples and 5 unused slides + cover slips (extremely thin glass to go on top of a sample), just enough to get you started. 2 x very acceptable eyepieces x10 and x20. It also has a couple of coloured filters that go on top of the LED. 3 x object lenses As with any optical device very high magnifications are not as good as lower ones. I use the lowest x40 the most with the x 100 sometimes. At x40 you can easily see plant cells and the little nasties that invade poor old hedgie. The supplied eyepieces work well but I found the exit pupil wasn't great for my elderly eyes so I bought a x10 wide angle spectical wearers E/P which is better. This is not unusual, I have telescopes and the supplied E/Ps are OK but you can buy better ones. It keeps the initial purchase price down. I've sucessfully used it to make photos using a DSLR. I also made an interesting discovery. Normally the E/P is removed and replaced by the DSLR with a 23.2mm adapter but I found that if the E/P is left in place and the DSLR (without lens but with E/P adapter) is placed close to the lens, it captures all of what the lens sees. The scopes focusser can be used to focus. This works with all magnifications. For a stable setup you'll need a tube that holds the DSLR + adapter (23.2mm) and fits over the E/P and the microscope support. What I like most about this scope is that all of your money goes on the scope, no kits or accessories. This is a serious microscope and not a toy but it would be good for an older child. I'm amazed at what you get for the price. n.b. between them the hedgies had roundworm, lungworm and Fluke. One was quite poorly having the last 2. After treatments both are now well, getting fat and looking forward to their release in Spring. They think the Apex Practitioner is Magical :-)

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Absolutely Incredible! (Biomedical Science Student)
*by A***H on 29 July 2014*

I never write reviews for products, but I seriously felt like I should for this! I'm a second (going into third) year Biomedical Science student, so I picked one of these up for home use, and to help with my histology dissertation. It arrived the next day, and I have to say this microscope is absolutely amazing (especially for the price!). It is extremely robust and well made, the quality of each component is fantastic, it has the qualities of a very high-end microscope that we'd use in the labs for such a low price! Every single feature of the microscope is of a VERY high quality, from the course/fine focus, to the objective lenses, and produces fantastic images. What I received: - Apex Practitioner Microscope - 10x and 20x eyepieces (although the description says it comes with 10x and 15x?? Not that I'm complaining!) - A spare fuse - A blue and green filter - A plastic microscope cover - 50 Blank Slides - 100 Cover slips (although these arrived opened and some smashed, which was a disappointment, but it didn't lower my opinion as a whole) - 5 prepared frog specimen slides I would highly recommend this microscope to anyone from a basic level, to degree level, looking for a high-end quality microscope for a low price! I'd been on the fence for a few weeks before finally deciding to order one, and I couldn't be happier with it! However, a couple of people have stated that they received a spare bulb, which I did not, so I was wondering if someone could guide me as to where I can acquire one (and how to replace it), if I ever need to! Thanks in advance.

## Frequently Bought Together

- The Apex Practitioner Microscope
- Microscope Slides and Cover Slips - 50 Prepared Sample Slides, 100 Pre Cleaned Cover Glasses, 5 Pcs 2ml Plastic Droppers

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