The finder was missing, but the bracket for it was still present. The first 2 eyepieces were usable and gave 40x and 64x power, respectively, the 4mm's only purpose was to provide truth in advertising for the hyped magnification claims. Views with the 2 lower power EPs were crisp, with little chromatic abberation. The high power and the barlolw were basicallyk useless. The tripod is pretty stable.
Vibrations induced by moving the scope or focusing die off within a few seconds.
The slow motion controls are smooth, the only problem is that they have to be periodicly re-centered or you run out of travel. My biggest complaint against this scope is that it just doesn't have the light grasp and resolving power, nor will it take the magnification that in my opinion is necessary for many aspects of amateur astronomy. It gives pretty good images, will take a fair amount of magnification, and is quick and easy to set up. I've done some imaging with a modified Quick-cam, getting shots of the moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and even some double stars that I made measurements of PA and separation from the resulting images. Not bad for what it regarded as a beginner's scope.