Thread: See the big picture ~ 30 x 36 Loupe

Bausch and Lomb is excellent but like others have said, you pay for it. I have a 30x Bausch and Lomb loupe. It's a tiny little bugger with a price tag near 50 dollars if I recall. It will give you a very, very good look at your edge, though. Much better 80 or more magnification with crappy optics. The optics I use these days is the 200 power ProScope. It's a few bills but I need it for what I do.

After having polished and cut diamonds for 10 years I've gotten really accustomed to using a loupe. It has become second nature for me.

I have a few jewelers loupes and a few loupes for cutting and polishing diamonds. It goes from a 8x to a 30x but in reality my eyes are trained and conditioned that I have enough with my 8 x. I mostly use my 10 x.
It's all in the eyes.

Originally Posted by PapaBull

Bausch and Lomb is excellent but like others have said, you pay for it. I have a 30x Bausch and Lomb loupe. It's a tiny little bugger with a price tag near 50 dollars if I recall. It will give you a very, very good look at your edge, though. Much better 80 or more magnification with crappy optics. The optics I use these days is the 200 power ProScope. It's a few bills but I need it for what I do.

How do you digitize those images?

The boden proscope displays to your computer and you can snap photos or even an .mpg video as you move the scope along. I haven't found a good way to keep the edge aligned well enough to make a "movie" of a pass along the entire edge yet. I'll give that a try again sometime, but there's so little room for error at 200x that it's like threading a needle in the dark.

My DinaScope came with software that displays the magnified picture on my computer. I use apple and I got a free download called "CaptureMe". That records the image to file. Many USB scopes come with integrated do it all software

I presume there is a similar download for microsoft. I don't know, I stopped using their software as soon as I could, when I retired. Never looked back I might add.

This is a rough view from the Chinese cheapie.
I just sat it on my stone holder & slipped the blade under it. Took the shot hand held no tripod just elbows on the bench..
I still think it's ok for the price but a B&L sounds attractive