VIVOSUN Slide-Out Jewelry Loupe Magnifier 30X 60X 90X LED Lighted Eye Loupe with UV Light for Jewelry, Diamonds, Gems, Coins, Stamps, Rocks, Black

Works great

I often come across small print on items or jewelry when I’m out, and I can never read the words. This has been a game-changer! I keep one in my purse—it’s lightweight and easy to carry—and another at home. The magnification is great, and the built-in light makes it even better!

It's debatable, I suppose, but to me, this is not, strictly speaking, a loupe. It's a gizmo with three different loupe-like magnifying lenses, of different strengths, and it includes a little teeny battery-powered light, all in a case that you can pop into your pocket, so it's really pretty handy, and it's cheap. A jeweler's loupe would have a tubular plastic holder that you can squash into your eye socket like a monacle, and that has the advantage of creating darkness around your eye which makes whatever you're looking at easier to see through the lens of the loupe, while also allowing you to have both hands free to work on what you're looking at. This item doesn't do that. It's also a bit hard to figure out how to get this doohickey up close enough to your eye to make it effective for examining tiny stuff (or, at least, it was for me) but once you get the hang of it, the fact that it's pocket-sized, self-contained and lighted does make it pretty handy to have. You won't be able to have both hands free *and* see up close as you'd be able to do with a traditional jeweler's loupe, but it's not a bad tool for what it is. Finally, Amazon wants us to rate this item for "sheerness." A minute ago, they wanted me to evaluate a set of watch tools for "thickness." I'm convinced that a significant subset of the people at Amazon who program the review pages actually have no idea what the items they're working on really are or do.

This is a handy small field magnifier. However, its weaknesses are its alkaline batteries, no water resistance, and no place to add a lanyard or split ring. The light in one of this pair died within a few hours of using. This is most likely due to the alkaline batteries discharging while inside the box unused. A lithium battery version would be MUCH preferred. I have attached an image of the battery orientation for those replacing the batteries in theirs.

Bought a few of them! Put in purse if you can read something good! Sturdy and again great bday gift Christmas or they are just good to have for looking for something in your purse and dark out and hubby or friend is driving it won’t effect their eyes.

Excellent magnifier for my needs, recommended.

I’ve purchased these as stocking stuffers twice-they didn’t break, just got lost. My kids are obsessed with rocks/gems and these were a hit not once, but twice. The first time, I didn’t buy them for our adult children, but did the second time. Great for looking at rocks and jewelry, or even a splinter. I love that they slide to close, are easy to take along and the battery has lasted a long time.

Too small to see through well. Also the letters are upside down unless I hold it just the right distance from the paper. May be ok for jewelry but it suck for reading.