Product Description

• Doublet lens loupe made of optical glass
• Round swing-away chrome plated case
• 30X power and focal distance of 0.5"
• Lens diameter is 21 mm

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #688 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Anytime Tools
• Model: MG55367
• Dimensions: .18 pounds

Features

• Doublet lens loupe made of optical glass
• Round swing-away chrome plated case
• 30X power and focal distance of 0.5"
• Lens diameter is 21 mm

Customer Reviews

Stan's Review
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.

Not really a 30X
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.

30x loupe
Pretty good but have a hard time telling the difference from my 10x loupe. Clear glass lens and nice holder.