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 Stan's Review July 4, 2007
Stanley Troy Thompson (Pensacola, FL)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
For the money, the is a fairly decent magnifying glass. Don't really expect it to be thirty power, though. It is more or less ten power as far as I can figure by comparing it to several expensive Hastings triplets I own.
Where they got the "approximately 30x" from is anyone's guess unless they were trying to rate the thing by area magnification as opposed to linear magnification. In this case they got the formula wrong.
Magnifiers are usually rate linearly, in that a 2x magnifier should make a one inch line appear two inches. This is the same as binoculars and other magnifying instruments though there is some kind of convention, I believe, of a standard ten inches with reading glass magnifiers.
Whatever--the thing does have glass lenses as far as I can tell and it comes in a nifty little plastic box. It is a great little lens for a geology student or a nature buff and, at the price, makes a novel little gift.
Takes some getting used to... May 7, 2007
BootLeg (UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Not the best optical glass, but it works. If the glass was of better quality, I would have given it a 5.
 30x loupe July 24, 2007
Terry Hoobler (Birmingham, Alabama USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Pretty good but have a hard time telling the difference from my 10x loupe. Clear glass lens and nice holder.
 It magnifies. October 27, 2007
Richard Reynolds (Desert Hot Springs, CA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Need I say more? It's sturdy and great quality, particularly for this great price. The optics are clear. It's a good loupe. You could pay more, but why?
 Not really a 30X February 28, 2008
B. Lozano
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Nice lens but not really 30X. I have a 20X and this one magnifies not even close to 20X. It looks like this is just a 10X like the other reviewer says.
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