[Jewelry making - Article 01485] - Re: [Orchid] New Optivisor Complaints

[Mark Kaplan]

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    I am obsessive and I am a bit embarrassed to admit it but I have
    three optivisors. 

    One that I especially love that still has my dad's name in it from
    when he was alive and we worked together (in a different
    industry).... When we worked together' he would say "where are my
    eyes", and I would dutifully fetch his pair.... 

    The good ones are old and have glass lenses (not cheesy plastic)...
    In addition to my father's pair, the others are from eBay and time I
    was in another country and needed some magnification.... 

    Note the number system on the lens is very goofy and a bit arbitrary
    and unscientific; it has nothing to do with the magnification power
    at all and is just labeled numerically (but close enough to the
    actual magnification levels to be confusing) for example the
    arbitrary number 2 lens is 1.5 power magnification.... 

    One pair has an optiloupe attachment and I rarely use it... Anyway
    the main purpose of this post is to talk about the new headlights
    available for them called Quasar LED Lighting System for Optivisor.
    It has 6 LEDS that go around the lens. I really like it....Most of
    the supply houses now carry it. I don't use it all the time but find
    it worth turning on about 3 or 4 times a day. It is bright and
    helpful for those times when you are not sitting perfectly in
    position at your well illuminated bench but you still me some close
    up vision. Like that one stump in the corner of your studio that
    isn't well lit or those times when we are on our hands and knees
    looking under our bench for that very jumpy jump ring. It really
    helps me a whole lot as the lighting under my bench is quite
    poor.....For around twenty us dollars it worthy of checking out..... 

    I wear mine so much in the unused "UP" position that I forget that I
    have them on my head.... twice I have bumped them getting into my
    car.... 

Mark Kaplan
Providence, Rhode Island USA
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