Reviews - Bausch & Lomb Lenscope Magnifier - 10x Reviews - BL-LM-LNSCOPE-81-34-42

Author: jjh (verified customer) from Thousand Oaks, CA on Mar 2, 2008
Pros:  easy to use, no obvious distortion
Cons:  packaging looks cheap, design could be better
Would recommend:  yes

jjh wrote:

I bought the Bausch and Lomb Lenscope Magnifier with both the 7x and 10x lenses so that I could view coins easily. The magnifier is great for viewing coins. I find that I prefer the 7x lens in order to view the entire coin in one viewing, but sometimes switch to the 10x lens to get a closer look. The lighting feature is nice, as it is difficult to look at coins without a lighted magnifier. One drawback is that the switch doesn't have an obvious off position (a position to which you can click to the off position). To turn the magnifier off, you have to move the switch until the light turns off in between the two "on" positions somewhere in the middle of the switch path. You know it is off not because the switch clicks into an "off" position, but because the lights turns off. Other drawbacks are that the packaging is cheap, it looks cheap, and the design is unattractive. Also, I dropped it on the floor and it split into pieces. To get it to work again, I had to bend the electrical ...
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