Magnifying Lamps – Essential Tool For People Who Do Small Craft Work
A magnifying lamp is a must-have for hobbyists, collectors, and artisans. These tools illuminate the object you are working on or viewing, at the same time enlarges it so your eyes won’t be strained as much. Both of which are important requirements so you can work on small objects or look at fine details without straining your eyes too much. In comparison to a hand lens, a magnifying lamp is more convenient since it frees up both of your hands so you can accomplish tasks faster.
Magnifying lamps come in a variety of sizes, from those that you can put on top of your desk to bigger ones just like the Fulcrum magnifier LED floor lamp. Needless to say, compact models are cheaper, and would usually cost around twenty to forty bucks. Bigger models in contrast, such as the Fulcrum magnifier LED floor lamp, will set you back around seventy to eighty dollars. Some models can cost upward of $100.
Apart from cost and size, these products also have various magnification strengths. Magnification is often expressed as percentage or a number followed by an “x” to show how much bigger the resultant image will be relative to the actual size of the item being viewed. You can also ascertain the optical power of the lens through its diopter or dioptre value. Dividing the diopter value by four and adding one will give you the magnification power.
For example, a 5 diopter magnifying lamp will have a magnification power of 2.25x or roughly, 125% of the actual size. An 8 diopter magnifying lamp in contrast will have a magnifying strength of 3.00x or about 200% of the actual size. In essence, the higher the diopter value the higher the magnification. Also, the greater the magnifying power, the more proximate the item being viewed has to be to the lens. This ideal working distance is referred to as the focal length. An 8 diopter magnifying lamp has an ideal working distance of five inches. A 5 diopter magnifying lamp on the other hand requires you to place the object around eight inches below the lens.
Magnifying lamps are sold in brick-and-mortar hobby shops and hardware shops. Alternatively, you can also buy them from web-based vendors.
They also have different optical powers, 8 diopter magnifying lamp and Fulcrum Magnifier LED Floor Lamp being the more common variants. Click here to learn more about this must-have equipment for collectors and artisans.