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Need a Magnifying Glass? Here's What You Need to Know

The first step in making your selection, is to decide exactly how you want to use your magnifying glass.

Will it be used to read a newspaper, read the fine print on a map, or a finely printed label.

Do you want to read a menu in a restaurant, examine a diamond or gemstone?

There is a wide range of different types of magnifiers in addition to the round hand held, such as Head Visor magnifiers and the necklace magnifying glass

You can choose pocket or purse folding magnifiers, eye loupes, table top magnifiers and round the neck hands hands free magnifiers.

You can find lighted magnifying glasses including LED lighted jeweler's loupes, lighted pocket magnifiers and lighted hand held magnifying glasses.

You can find the type of magnifying glass you want to meet your specific requirements.

Are there limitations to How to Use Your Magnifying Glass

There are hundreds of styles and designs of magnifying glasses, and probably thousands of ways to use them.

For example, we have taken orders for 5x hand held magnifiers for the examination of windshields for defects.

A border protection department as well as a police department use a pocket 10x folding magnifying glass to examine documents.

A county department of agriculture purchased 20x jeweler's loupes to be used to examine crops for for insect and blight problems.

What do you want your magnifying glass or jeweler's loupe to accomplish for you? That will help to determine what type of magnifying glass to select.

Will One Size of Magnifier Meet All Your Needs

Probably not, but one very popular solution gives you A choice of several hand held magnifying glasses sold together in sets.

These provide multiple magnifying powers and varied diameter lenses that can be used as needed for different purposes.

What Is The Suggested Type and Size For Reading

Hand held magnifying glasses are excellent for general use such as reading maps or newspapers.

Use the larger ones with 3x to 5x magnification and 3, 3 1/2  or 4 inch diameter for newspapers and magazines.

Use the smaller 6x to 10x  2 or 3 inch diameter for finer print.

We usually get several requests each week for a large size magnifying glass with 20 or 30 times magnification.

The problem is that the curvature 0n the surface of the glass or plastic lens determines the magnification.

The smaller the curve the higher the magnification and the smaller the diameter of the lens.

The Larger the curve the less magnification and the wider the diameter of the lens can be.  That is a very simplified explanation of why you can't find a 

hand held magnifying glass  that magnifies 20 or 30 times and has a 6 or 8 inch diameter lens

That's why we have 10 time magnification in a 2 inch diameter glass lens, but only up to 5 time magnification in a maximum 3 1/2 inch diameter lens.

Here are some important magnifying facts to be aware of.

Magnifying Power The ability of the lens to increase the visual size of an object. The X (times) is used to identify this factor. A magnifying lens bends light rays resulting in an image that looks larger than the actual object.

For example, a 3X magnifier triples the size of an image.

Focal Length or Working Distance. In addition to power, a magnifying glass can also be classified by its working distance.

The higher the power of a lens, the shorter the working distance (the distance between the object and the magnifier.  For example, a 2X lens has a working distance of 5".

That means that the magnifier will provide double magnification and be in clear focus when held at a distance of 5" from the object.

Field of View is the size of the area that you see through the magnifying glass. The field of view becomes smaller as the magnifying power increases.

Depth of Field is the distance that a magnifier can be moved above an object and still have the object in focus. The higher the magnification, the shorter the depth of field.

About the author: 
Marvin Meyer is one of the owners and the operator of Magnifying-Glass-Place, The Magnify Store. 
He is a former jewelry buyer for a major mass merchant and  provides magnifying glass and jeweler's loupe
products to individuals, businesses and Universities in the USA and world wide.   Contact him at the Magnify Store at  www.ppgift.com

Open the loupe until the lens is fully extended. To keep the jeweler's loupe steady, put your finger through the opening to steady the loupe.

Bring the loupe right up to your eye. Steady the loupe hand against your cheek.

Use the thumb and forefinger of your right or left left hand to pick up the ring or item that you will be examining.

Then bring the ring or item to be examined up to the lens until it comes into focus.

You can leave both eyes open, but many first-time users find it more comfortable to close the other eye.

Doublet, triplet. quadruplet refer to the number of different types of lenses that are sandwiched together to make the single lens that you look through.

A triplet would have three components, a doublet two, pentagonal, 5.

Higher quality lenses are constructed this way to reduce distortion and other abnormalities that would be present if only a single monolithic piece of glass were used.

Color correction is a coating that is applied to the lenses to make the image appear as if it were being viewed in a natural light.

10x is the generally accepted international standard in the jewelry industry for grading diamonds and gemstones. I0x magnifies 10 times

Diamonds are graded for clarity at 10X.. If an inclusion in a diamond cannot be seen by a trained eye at 10X, the flaw does not exist for the purpose of grading clarity.

A 10X triplet loupe with achromatic lenses is the conventional jeweler's loupe in the jewelry industry..

The triplet has three lenses which greatly reduce or entirely eliminate distortion with any color aberrations , compared to a single lens or doublet loupes.

10x is the generally accepted international standard in the jewelry industry for grading diamonds and gemstones. 10x magnifies 10 times,

20x magnifies 20 times and 30x magnifies 30 times. The image you see, if the quality of the jeweler's loupe is the same, is just as clear in all three magnifications.

The difference is the field of view in each.

If you were looking a a quarter with a 10x loupe you would see a good part of the surface of the quarter magnified 10 times.

If you looked at the same quarter with a 20x loupe you would see about a third of the quarter magnified 20 times.

With a 30x loupe you see an area equal to 2 or 3 numbers of the date at the bottom of the quarter magnified 30 times.

Each view would have the same clarity if the quality of the loupes are the same.

The area, and the magnification of what you see, would be the difference between the different magnifications.

These terms refer to the diameter of the lenses in millimeters.

A 21mm lens is approximately 3/4 inch in diameter. An 18mm lens is approximately 5/8 inch.

. There is no noticeable difference in the diameter of a 20.5mm lens and a 21mm lens.

A 30x 21mm triplet jeweler's loupe magnifies the image 30 times.

A triplet has three lenses combined to produce the 30x magnification, and a 21mm lens diameter of approximately 3/4 inch. It produces a sharp clear image.

And it has a color correcting coating on the lenses to make the image being viewed appear as if it were being viewed in natural daylight.

It has achromatic lenses which eliminates color distortion.

Jeweler's loupe sets of 3 or 4 loupes are available in assorted powers to provide you with a range of magnification power.

How can you be sure you're selecting the right Jeweler's Loupe.

Choose a company that provides detailed descriptions and complete satisfaction, A company that lets you return your

 purchase for a refund for any reason or if you prefer, you should be able to exchange your purchase for a less expensive or

 higher priced item if your selection doesn't meet your needs.

About the author: 
Marvin Meyer is one of the owners and the operator of Magnifying-Glass-Place, The Magnify Store. 
He is a former jewelry buyer for a major mass merchant and  provides magnifying glass and jeweler's loupe
products to individuals, businesses and Universities in the USA and world wide.   Contact him at the Magnify Store at  www.ppgift.com

About Us

        Who is A And M Personalized Services, and the Magnify Store?

Marvin Meyer is one of the owners and the operator of The Magnify Store. 
He is a former jewelry buyer for a major mass merchant and  provides magnifying glass and jeweler's loupe
products to individuals, businesses and Universities in the USA and world wide. 

Only the name is new.  You may have ordered  a Personalized Print in the past under one of the other names that were used when we began creating  Personalized Prints beginning in the mid 90s.

A And M Personalized Services, Marvin Meyer, and Personality Prints, appeared after the copyright notice at the bottom of those  Personalized Prints in past years.   There was a change of direction in 2001.The reason was  the success and substantial growth of the Jewelers Loupes and Magnifying glass categories. 

In 2001, the company opened its web site  at www.ppgift.com (Personalized Print Gift) and as the magnifying glass categories grew,  changed the web site name to The Magnify Store, but kept our easy to remember www,ppgift.com address.

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