Customer Reviews

Lumi Loupe 10x Close-up Viewing Loupe for Photographic Contact Sheets & Negatives

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For the price, this is an excellent loupe. I use it for photographic negatives and various other tasks that require close-up examination. I feel that the key to this design is the clear ring around the base which lets in natural light and gives it a true color reading.

Works as advertised. The Loupe needs to be set down on the object your viewing. If you raise the Loupe up, then the object gets blurry.

I rarely go a day without using it to check halftone patterns and set files up for print, an essential tool. I also work with staccato screened prints, so the dots are twice as small as conventional screens, and this is good enough for that. a 15x might be better, but it would be too much for normal screened designs.

This one is great quality and the best value of the 10x's I have seen.

This a good little loupe, with great magnification and size, but it's not put together very well. The top portion and the lower skirt meet at a slight angle; it's not enough to mar the performance as a loupe, but it's enough to notice and make you feel like it's a very cheap piece of plastic. If you're looking for a cheap loupe that works great, this one's a good pick, but if you want quality keep going.

This is better than the price would indicate, but it certainly isn't an expensive, high-quality loupe. It IS an exceptional value though. For the average to above average user, I think this would work well. I use mine to view slides and negatives on a light table and it functions very well. It magnifies well enough for me to discern the differences between same subject shots in color negatives.

(As a bonus, my 2nd grader LOVED looking at an inchworm under it too! The clear area under the eyepiece/magnifier allows light through which helped with my son's excitement over science and living things...AND, it was cheap enough, that I wasn't worried about him ruining it.)

You get what you pay for usually...but, in my opinion, you're getting more quality than the price usually allows. To put it in car terms...you're getting a Camry for a Corolla price. You definitely are not getting the Avalon-for-Corolla-money deal of a lifetime with this purchase...if that is your aim, you'll be disappointed.

I have lots of photos that I have collected for my hobby of genealogy. This loupe allows me to see small details that can help me date the photos (and hopefully identify who the person is in the photo!) Sent quickly.

Good Clear Quality Loupe for price. Construction could be better, but its a great value for the price.

I use this to view my negatives and slides in photography. It is a nice handy loupe. It is a little bit bigger than I expected and you will not be able to use it in a way similar to other loupes (that is putting it in your eye and lodging it there). However, it is great if you have something that you can set on a flat surface and use this to view that item. The clear plastic ring lets light in which adds to the visibility of an item. I would not say this is the most sturdy/heavy item you can buy for this purpose but for the price and for the way I use it, it has held up very well.

It's too small for a contact sheet. It's not suitable for this kind of job. This size is not adpated to work on a 24x36 paper sheet.

This is actually an LL-10 10X loupe by Carson. I looked at a number of inexpensive loupes offered by Amazon in order to choose one for a larger purchase for printing professionals. This loupe is built solidly, has a large area of view, and allows a lot of light in to the image which helps with viewing. There was a small out of focus area in the center and it was also out of focus around the edges. I showed these loupes to several other people and a number of them liked this the best (mostly because of the amount of light that it allowed). There was a different loupe (by a different manufacturer) that more people preferred because of its better focus over the whole view.