JARLINK 30X Adjustable Focal 3 LED Jewelers Loupe Magnifier, Black

Great for extreme closeup viewing. I used one for years while doing 35mm photography for reading negatives. Now I need one for reading the ID characters that are stamped into many of my pills/meds. I have several that look almost identical and need to make sure I ma not double dosing or subbing one med from another. I have what is called essential tremors and I need help sorting my 24 different pills into the daily dose containers. I recently found that the nurse who last sorted my pills for me doubled my dose of a dieuretic. I am not sure if she did it on purpose but it would have kept me running back and forth to the toilet every 5-10 minutes. My eyes arent so good and unless the light is very bright, and if my hands aren't shaking, and my bifocals are workin for me that day, I may be able to catch the outline of the numbers on the surface of the pill and verify the ID. I remembered how eeasy it was to get an extreme closeup lookin at negatived and decided a loupe would be a good thing to try. This is not a loupe you can hold in your eye like a lightweight monicle or old timey jewelers loupe, but it does the job that I needed done. AND it supplied its own light. That itself was the feature that sold me. As you can see in my images these are different animals. The Photographers loupe is a simple plastic, lightweight loupe. The Amazon loupe supplies its own light, and spaare batteries. The focal length is slightly adjustable. It also has a grid that can be seeen when viewing the small item...and has measuring lines so one can know the exact dimension of the item. More than i need but a welcome feature. If you need simple, search for a photographers loupe. If you like the one that does slightly more, opt for the adjustable jewelers loupe.

EDIT: I updated this review due to the excellent customer service of this company. There is a 12 month product warranty and they sent a replacement. You should still be cautious when changing the battery as the interior of this product is delicate. This loupe works well to see details on small photos; however, this is the second one I've purchased as the first broke when trying to change the batteries. I chalked it up to user error and purchased another one. This one just ran out of juice and changing the batteries is nearly impossible. When you can finally get a tool down in there to get the old button batteries out, the inner circle holding all the interior comes apart and pops out. This leaves wires and inner components exposed and unable to easily put back together. The good news is that I purchased in August and used often and the batteries lasted until January, but not a great tool for longevity use.

Overall, a nice magnifier. That is, save for the teeny tiny batteries for the light. They are so small, so they won't last long. I don't bother using the light, but instead use side lighting. The unit is light and easy to grasp, and has a nice scale to check dimensions. The optics are pretty clear, which is welcome. Glad I bought this. I have used it often to spot check things.

This loupe works as described and I really like that it is adjustable. I recommend it for viewing the tiny details on jewelry which is what I use it for.

A bargain. Good optics and versatile adjustments.

I loved this at first. Great for getting the kids to explore things. But the lights are a problem. The three-position light switch has settings for On, Off, and UV. The UV is not visible, so it's easy to think you're turning the light off, but in fact for it to be in UV mode, and burn out the batteries quickly. And the batteries are small coin batteries you probably don't have lying around. So the light has become useless to me.

Okay new update in this! Now the light stopped working and it’s impossible to even figure out how to even replace the batteries. Awful purchase and a piece of junk. Do not buy. What a piece of junk. The plastic tab to remove to connect the battery will NOT come out! Plus the area to change the battery will not open. I spent an hour trying to remove the tab and the area to replace the battery. Amazon WILL NOT send me a replacement without returning A MEASLY $11 item and will not send me another! I need this immediately for my job. I will make decisions about my future orders with Amazon. My gosh you’d think I had an expensive item! It’s complete junk!!! This cheap and defective item will get thrown in the trash upon its return anyway and is unless to anyone. What a waste of my time and esp my money!!!!

I use this for fiber optic work to check my ribbons as I am making them and occasionally while splicing. I was previously using like a Jewlers 3-1 but this is perfect. Bought one to put in each of the ribbon splicers as well as one in each ribbonizing tool. Anyone doing fiber optic work I highly recommend. My only knock would be the on/off button. I wish it were a switch to avoid it accidentally being turned on which has happened once already. Fortunately it comes with a spare set of batteries so I am good to go for a while since I have like 3 more spare sets. Replacing the batteries was also quite simple just twist off the top, remove the lens then slide the batteries out and voila good to go again.

Buena calidad en materiales, los 2 tipos de luces funcionan muy bien y el aumento en los cristales es muy limpio ñ.

Will not buy again