Customer Reviews

Carson 5" BigEye Magnifier

5 star:		(15)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This magnifying glass may be fun for kids. The packaging seems to have been designed with kids in mind as well. The blister pack packaging has an insect background and lots of brightly colored foilage.

I would not recommend this product for adults. It isn't a serious magnifying glass. The magnification level is quite weak, maybe 2X at best although I have my doubts about even that. The overall size (w/5" lens) is a bit unwieldy although that is clearly indicated in the actual listing. The lens is plastic as described which makes it highly susceptable to scratching in a drawer and especially so with kids to be certain. Consider it to be a cheap toy and you'll probably be satisfied with it.

I would probably have returned it except the cost of doing so would have been nearly equal to it's cost. I ended up purchasing a replacement at a local office supply chain at a little more than double the price, but it works.

Two stars for the potential kid value v.s. the cost but otherwise I would recommend that you keep looking if you are looking for a truly functional product.

This size magnifier with handle is just great. It seems to be lightweight enough to hold for awhile without getting weary holding it & it covers an area so much better than the one I have been using,which is about 3" x 3". I also have one of the 8" x 10" but you have to hold it up & away from the page & without a handle, it is awkward. So I am glad I ordered this.

Bought this for my almost-4 yr old grandson who loves bugs. He loved it, but after not much use the glass kept falling out of the frame. I don't think he abused it at all.
I'm going to buy a smaller one for him with a sturdier rim. I'm going to try some super glue on this one to see if it'll keep the glass in the frame.

I wanted an inexpensive magnifying glass to use with my grandchildren on a project. This is the one I selected and it suited my needs. My only problem with it was that the lens appeared to already have numerous small scratches on it when I took it out of the packaging. This might be a problem for some people but, again, it worked ok for me. The bottom line is you get what you pay for.

There is little I can say. I recived it quickly in 2 days of ordering it. I am very happy with my magnifier. It is not Glass, and I wish it had a sleeve to keep it from getting any stray dust on it. However I just use a soft glass cloth that came with my Camera, and so it's also easy to keep clean. The handle was a little light, so it is not heavy duty. Overall however it was a good buy, I can read again now.

This is the second one of these I've bought. Now I keep one in the living room and one beside the computer in my office. The large size lets me read whole sentences and paragraphs when the type is too small for aging eyes. Like this type!

I love it. Great to keep in a handy drawer to see that fine print that I can no longer see without the glass.

I checked for a loose lens..it was solidly in there. I looked closer and it was glued in spots. I think they read comments and tweeked the product. This is a truly big lens, and it does a lot well. As plastic lenses go, the distortion on this one is light, does not appear until you push the power, and happens in a way that still lets you see some detail. This acrylic lens is lighter than a 5" glass, and much brighter than the typical window-glass magnifier. For reading tiny type or little computer characters or details, it's handy, and quicker to bring to bear on the problem with the big view. Holding it 2-3 inches from the eyes and getting close in is really amazing, like those magnifier-visors. You get more power with it by
your eyes, and the 5" size gives you the view in stereo. To those who want more power: the bigger the lens the less power before bad distortion sets in. That's just the way it works. 5x or 10x will push you to 2 inches or 1 inch diameter. At 2x this will let you see a lot more detail with comfort than without it. I found a sandwich bag ziploc makes a perfect dust cover. Good for kids+bugs, crafts, electronic hook-ups, fine print, or someone with vision issues on regular print. As a toy it's actually quite usable. Other toy magnifiers are worse than nothing at all. Looming over a bug with eyes near the thing works quite well.

5" clear large acrylic lens, easy to hold, non-distorted. I bought two of these and will be getting a few more for around the office.
E-Mails have been arriving with incredibly tiny fonts these days and some faxes also are illegible to the human eye even with strong reading glasses. For the money you can't go wrong with these magnifiers, they are a perfect item for any office, save your eyesight.Carson 5" BigEye Magnifier

Large high quality acrylic lens safe for children. The large field of view is good for introducing children to the microworld. The magnifying power is low, only 2X. For nature investigations, the large view and arm length focal length is an advantage. I suggest that this be used to collect specimens for higher magnification, like loupe or microscope. I bought 15 for a class and I think kids were impressed by its size. Adults get better magnification than children, because of longer focal length from aging. So kids work at getting 2X.