JARLINK 30X Jewelers Loupe, Adjustable Focal Length Magnifier with 3 LED Light for Gems, Jewelry, Coins, Stamps, etc (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.

Its weakness is battery life but its a good tool.

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.

It could have it's uses. The light button is so easy to push and you have to remember to push it twice to turn it off. One for the LED and one for the UV. That got me when I first got it. I wanted something with adjustable focus is why I bought it but the focus doesn't seem to change to me either all in or all out. The view seems essential the same to me regardless which is kinda weird? Don't understand that. Anyho press it twice to turn it off & It is a pain to take apart which I did when I got it just to see if I could do it and I didn't ever try the battery replace which everyone says is really fun. My old AGFA loupe if still my preferred item. Decent for the price but for coins it didn't really help me.

Exceeded my expectations. The clarity and quality of the lens is better than I expected. The integrated LED light is a nice touch. There are scales along two axis, helping to provide scale -- I didn't about this nice feature in the product description or in the reviews. Overall, a great little loupe.

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!!!!

Great buy for the price