Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I am a pathology resident and was looking for a cheap option for viewing surgical slides at home so I don't have to come to the hospital on the weekends as often to view slides. I am not sure how this could be the "Best microscope of 2018" when it was designed with a fatal flaw. On my very first use, I was focused on an area in the middle of a slide and started changing objectives and then BAM, the 40x objective scrapes against the screw that keeps the slide holder in place. How is this supposed to be a useable microscope if you can't switch objectives in the middle of a slide without the objectives bumping the slide holder screws? See the picture I took which illustrates this problem. Also, the scope is much smaller than I expected it to be, making it look like a toy compared to the ones I use at work. The objective holder is also smooth and hard to grasp, making flipping objectives harder than it should be (even without the poorly-designed screw in your way). Also, the objectives are all out of focus with one another, so you are constantly focusing up and down every time you switch from one to the other. The stage range of motion is very limited in the side to side planes, so you can't even view the entire slide!! It only took a few minutes before I knew this was not going to serve my purposes. I'm very glad I bought it on Amazon and can return it for free! I spent an extra $110 and bought the AmScope T490B and WOW what a huge difference that made. It's a bigger scope, only a little bit smaller than the ones at work. The screws are far from the objectives so no bumping can happen like with the OMAX, and everything else about this microscope is much better, including the larger size, softer lighting, and nice grips that allow you to flip objectives much more easily than this scope. Plus the stage has a better range of motion from side to side, and there is less of a difference in focal length between the objectives, making it much more functional over all. Now I can get some serious work done.