Looking for input on a decent loupe... ALSO Motoz force 2 camera mod worth it?

Yes. I'm using Windows 10. PM Coming.

 

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Do you know for sure they are? I ask because B&L sold everything except eye care products and contact lens to Bill Ackman and Valeant ( Canadian Co.) Pharmaceuticals in 2013 and I can not find that they acquired the manufacturing plant, I suspected Valeant would import the lens now ( they do own the brand name for them) and brand them B & L . Amazon is labeling some as
https://www.amazon.com/Valeant-Pharmaceuticals-Bausch-813476-Magnifier/dp/B015A6ORD4 . jim

 

Could be. I've had mine since my die & mold days many years ago. (decades)

 

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I recommend a two-lens folding magnifier with a wild field of view for coin work. It will give you three levels of magnification (a stepwise zoom), and you can see a lot of area at once. The cheaper one (~$25) is the Baush and Lomb with 4X, 5X, 9X magnification; the better quality one is the Eschenbach Precision with 4X, 6X, and 10X magnification (~$100). Despite their wide field of view both are compact and easy to use. Both are available from Amazon and elsewhere. I have an old B&L 3X, 4X, 7X that I've used for years, but don't think it's available anymore.

I use higher powered triplets (10-20 X) with a narrower field of view for gem work, but find lower power and wider field more useful for coins.

Cal