Carson LL-10 10x LumiLoupe Stand Magnifier Loupe

This is amazing

Large and easy to use. Focus point does vary quite a lot which is a problem

I bought this so I could tune a couple of my fountain pen nibs. It does the job although I assume that it is meant to be used for coins or something similar. The cone shape around it is unnecessary for my use-case, but I just ignore it and it works fine

The physical structure of this magnifier and ones like it are crucial to how these work, their design purpose and limitations.Indeed these will give you the magnifications at the levels claimed however, these cup shape magnifiers are designed to magnify only in 2 dimensions. Sounds weird and perhaps not technically true but I'll explain.What ever you want to see close up or magnify - must be on a flat surface. For example a bank note on a coffee table. By placing the cup shaped magnifier's bigger opening flat on top of the bank note flat on the table and bringing your eye to the eye-piece, you get to see the magic of magnification.Lif the magnifier a millimeter away from the bank note and you will lose focus. I guess what I mean by not a 3D magnifier is that it doesn't have much of a field of depth. About + or - 2mm at best... So looking at a 3D object, you get that 'bokeh' effect that would be desirable in sharp portrait photographs against industrial blurred background but not what you want when you inspect objects close up.Strictly speaking, you could inspect different depths of a 3D object like a gold ring by holding the magnifier to your eye and bringing the ring close up to the magnifier, then you're limited to the 43mm diameter of the magnifier cup cylinder as anything much bigger than a ring will not fit inside the cup for different depths to be viewed.Perfect if you want to see finer details of prints and other artifacts on flat objects, for example magnifies pixels on your LCD screen so you can see individual RGB leds that make up each pixel.

The focus is spot on for colour slides

The size is as described in the listing. At over 75mm (3") wide at the base, this is a monster loupe. The 10x is apparently smaller, and I didn't spot that this one is so large! Even the lens is 43mm diameter.It did need a very thorough clean, though, as the lenses were covered with small pinpricks, probably left over from the manufacturing process. This made things a bit cloudy and reduced the image contrast. The black ring is on a bayonet fitting and can be twisted and lifted to remove it, allowing the lenses to be removed to clean both sides.After cleaning, the optics seem pretty good—it's not perfectly sharp edge-to-edge, but it's pretty good for the price.

Purchased for a home photography project. Excellent clear magnification. Comparable with more expensive makes.

Bought this fir my step Daughter, who has sight problems. It really helps her.