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SE Jeweler's Loupe - 30X

• This extremely powerful Jeweler's Loupe is 3 times more powerful than the average (10X) louple
• It comes with its own hard plastic felt lined storage case
• It include a small loop to attach to a neck chain or key chain
• Lenses are glass, not plastic

Product Description

This loupe is great for rock collectors, coin collectors, hobbyists, jewelers, and anyone else who requires distortion free magnification.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000PCCJYI
• Item model number: MJ361830C
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (110 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #69 in Watches (See Top 100 in Watches)
  • #9 in Arts, Crafts & Sewing > Beading & Jewelry Making > Jewelry-Making Tools & Accessories

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

54 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's not 30x, April 12, 2007

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Killoran (Chinle, AZ USA) - See all my reviews

This is a good little magnifier at a terrific price, but it is not 30x, and I don't know why it says it is. I have two other loupes, one that's 10x, and one that has both 15x and 20x, and this one seems to magnify a little better than the 10x. So, if you need high power, this isn't the magnifier you want. It is very easy to use, with a nice large diameter viewing area, and worth the price, but beware if you need higher power.

55 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Stan's Review, July 4, 2007

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Stanley Troy Thompson "Stan the Man" (Pensacola, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SE Jeweler's Loupe - 30X (Office Product)

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.

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not really a 30X, February 27, 2008

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B. Lozano - See all my reviews

This review is from: SE Jeweler's Loupe - 30X (Office Product)

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.