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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2362860, member: 1892&quot;]It is important to research what factors inform the advertised &quot;magnification.&quot; You&#039;ll find most &#039;scopes have verbiage mentioning the &quot;magnification&quot; is also related to your monitor&#039;s resolution and size and the sensor employed; they&#039;re playing the &quot;monitor magnification&quot; card we&#039;ve discussed in regard to digicam photography. The actual optical magnification is going to be much lower, and you might find that the unit employs a very small sensor and/or relatively little optical magnification.</p><p><br /></p><p>5X optical magnification is likely as much as one would ever need to employ with a dSLR-quality sensor. True 80x optical magnification would be <b>utterly</b> useless for a coin. It would create an image of a Half Dime (on a 24MP camera) something like 300,000 pixels in diameter, which would require a monitor of the same pixel density as my (high-density) 2560x1440 27&quot; to be roughly 250 feet wide to display the whole coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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