I ordered this without consulting my daughter. I just just opened it and handed it to her. She was immediately excited. At 9 years old, it can be hard sometimes to find gifts that she will like. This one was a home run instantly. Even after using it for several days, she still loves it. She also tossed aside the instructions and just figured out how to use it. It's very intuitive. She missed a couple of options in the settings but I found them and turned them on. One of them is for recording videos. It is defaulted to no audio. Also, no date timestamp. I turned both of those on. It's also defaulted to the lower resolution choices and I increased those. Her curiosity about the world is being opened up because of the possibility of investigation. And while storing the photos isn't the greatest quality while you're looking at a thing, it's quite neat.Here are a couple of points to keep in mind.-There is not an optical viewfinder. The only option is screen which makes sense because this is not an optical microscope. It is a digital microscope.-This is a manual focus microscope. The focus knob is really big and can be used while your hand is in the strap and you also don't accidentally bump it because it's recessed and a little bit out of the way. That's nice. The built-in light has several different brightness levels which go around in a cycle from Dennis to steps up to brightest and then back to Dennis again. I think this is a great little toy microscope and it's going to be fun and useful for just about any kid.