Solution To Wearing Glasses & Magnifying Stamps

Hi Sue

Just this last June, my optomotrist prescribed me a pair of those progressive lenses and told me to wear them all the time! I need glasses for reading only but he says to wear them all the time anyway. Luckily, these are not the type you have to have specified on my drivers license since they are basically for reading only as I am far sighted. I had problems with these glasses for reading the computer and the optomotrist said it was ok for me to revert back to my old glasses for computer work. Gradually though, I am getting used to the progressive lenses, even for the computer.

Did you find that your glasses gave you the same problem? I use my progressive lense for looking at stamps and reading papers etc.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Rod:

Loupes and magnifing glass are lenses. You can take your glasses off when using them and move them in or out to suit the focus. If you must wear lenses (so you can watch TV as well), the moving of your head in or out ot obtain focus works just as well.
Loupes can be costly, depending on quality of the loupe. A geologist loupe works very well, as you can get 5x,10x and 20x all in one loupe (combination).
The best way to eliminate the whole problem (other than lasic) is to get a magnified elctronic loupe or mini microscope that plugs into your USB slot of you home computer. Not terribly cheap, but very effective.

Bob

I have bifocals but really don't need them for distance - I just got tired of taking the reading glasses on and off. But the real point I wanted to make is if you have an old 35mm camera with like a removable 50mm lens, you can take it off the camera and turn it backwards and it is a powerful loupe for close up work and better glass than most magnifiers. Need to have a good light on the surface. Which is another point - strong light makes up for vision that is a little weak.

Bujutsu wrote:



Hi Bujutsu,
I like the progressive lenses. Mine are for farsite, short sided, lop sided, lolol.. But my only problem is they are not strong enough for close up, viewing stamps. I wonder if I can MAKE the optical guy have the reading part stronger, as they just gave me a reading test, and told me this is my eye lense power and so then I ordered the glasses.

I do like the idea though, of "progressive".

PoStat4evR wrote:



PoStat4evR,
I just bought one of those headband like magnifiers (delivery today) but now I want the mini microscope for the USB.
Here is a link to one of them and WOW, that looks incredible!
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/4...owimage.html

About $65, not so bad, will check auction sites too. Thanks so much, great suggestion!
SueStamps

I have miserable eyes (farsighted, uncorrected 20/50 in the good eye and 20/200 in the bad one). I have a whole plethora of things I use to look at my stamps, apart from the progressive lens glasses I wear all the time:

- cheapo plastic magnifying lens, 2x in the main section, 5x in a little bubble
- older philatelic magnifying glass with light source, 10x
- linen tester, 10x (very good, I use this the most when I want to look at individual stamps)
- flip-down visor, 2.6x (I'll wear this one when going through big piles of stuff)
- 3 different digital microscope things

Yeesh.

Ryan

Sue Stamps, the above quote is from a very informative article that Stamp Collectors may find helpful.

In Google - "7 Common things that Rapidly Deteriorate your Vision".

What I do because the eyes need assistance on seeing the stamp and there differance. I use my scanner to scan the stamp, then I can increase the stamp to a point I can then see the differance, read the writings etc...