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<p>[QUOTE="Ce BCA, post: 4483302, member: 18716"]Buy a decent one, using a cheap plastic loupe is miserable work. The best are by Zeiss, and Belomo are also good and nicely corrected although they are from Belorussia so there may be a problem getting them now. Look for glass triplets, these are corrected and give a much better viewing experience. Ones with an led light can be useful for dingy salerooms and church halls. 10x magnification is the standard, a 20x may be useful on occasion but they are more difficult to use especially if you don't have good light.</p><p><br /></p><p>For at home use a good binocular low power microscope knocks spots off any loupe, but much bigger and a lot more expensive of course.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ce BCA, post: 4483302, member: 18716"]Buy a decent one, using a cheap plastic loupe is miserable work. The best are by Zeiss, and Belomo are also good and nicely corrected although they are from Belorussia so there may be a problem getting them now. Look for glass triplets, these are corrected and give a much better viewing experience. Ones with an led light can be useful for dingy salerooms and church halls. 10x magnification is the standard, a 20x may be useful on occasion but they are more difficult to use especially if you don't have good light. For at home use a good binocular low power microscope knocks spots off any loupe, but much bigger and a lot more expensive of course.[/QUOTE]
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