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These past few weeks my eyes have been getting strained at night. If I'm in the shop or working on stuff a lot up close my eyesight will eventually get blurry when I try to focus on things up close. Things like looking at a part in the lathe chuck or mill vise up close, soldering, my phone, etc.
Earlier this year I went in for a physical & doc said I had 20/20 vision (had non of this eye strain issues at that time). Still I know that doesn't mean there could be something wrong with my eyes. Yesterday I went & bought a pair of 1.25x reading glasses, wow do they help when my eyes get strained!
So I bought one of those headband magnifiers to try out. I know these are commonly used by lots of people but I never had a need to consider buying one until now. Less then $10 shipped so worth a try. Has a 1.5x diopter. It also has a second set of lenses that flip down for 3x as well as a loupe (forget the magnification on that). Also has an adjustable LED light, works but nothing worth talking about. Wow again, these really do help me.
Perhaps I'm in denial but NO I'm not old yet! Really I think it's cause of rona again, all this staying at home & spending too much time in front of the computer screen or my phone. On days where I don't look at a lot of things up close or stay away from my phone my eyes are fine focusing up close for short periods of time. For now anyway.
The $10 magnifiers were just to see if I would find them useful and they are. So next was to get me some genuine Optivisors with the glass diopters (LX models by Donegan are more affordable with plastic diopters). Seems like the DA-5 is the most popular for general use, 2.5x. Then it seems like many people get the DA-10 for really fine detail work, 3.5x. Amazon has great prices on them but did not have the DA-5 in stock but I found them cheaper elsewhere. Under $40 shipped no tax.
Turns out the DA-5 is plenty good for up close detail work for me which I did not expect. In my case I wouldn't be comfortable with higher magnification & have to work even closer to my face. So I then decided to buy the DA-3 for general use, 1.75x. These are pretty much perfect for me for detail work in the shop. So these will stay in the shop, the DA-5 will stay by my soldering station, & the $10 ones I'll keep in my room.
I must say, I'm surprised how comfortable these are because of how lightweight they are, even the $10 ones with the light & AA batteries. I just hope I don't end up like @mikey one day searching for my Optivsior only to find it already on my head!
And NO, I'm not old yet!
Earlier this year I went in for a physical & doc said I had 20/20 vision (had non of this eye strain issues at that time). Still I know that doesn't mean there could be something wrong with my eyes. Yesterday I went & bought a pair of 1.25x reading glasses, wow do they help when my eyes get strained!
So I bought one of those headband magnifiers to try out. I know these are commonly used by lots of people but I never had a need to consider buying one until now. Less then $10 shipped so worth a try. Has a 1.5x diopter. It also has a second set of lenses that flip down for 3x as well as a loupe (forget the magnification on that). Also has an adjustable LED light, works but nothing worth talking about. Wow again, these really do help me.
Perhaps I'm in denial but NO I'm not old yet! Really I think it's cause of rona again, all this staying at home & spending too much time in front of the computer screen or my phone. On days where I don't look at a lot of things up close or stay away from my phone my eyes are fine focusing up close for short periods of time. For now anyway.
The $10 magnifiers were just to see if I would find them useful and they are. So next was to get me some genuine Optivisors with the glass diopters (LX models by Donegan are more affordable with plastic diopters). Seems like the DA-5 is the most popular for general use, 2.5x. Then it seems like many people get the DA-10 for really fine detail work, 3.5x. Amazon has great prices on them but did not have the DA-5 in stock but I found them cheaper elsewhere. Under $40 shipped no tax.
Turns out the DA-5 is plenty good for up close detail work for me which I did not expect. In my case I wouldn't be comfortable with higher magnification & have to work even closer to my face. So I then decided to buy the DA-3 for general use, 1.75x. These are pretty much perfect for me for detail work in the shop. So these will stay in the shop, the DA-5 will stay by my soldering station, & the $10 ones I'll keep in my room.
I must say, I'm surprised how comfortable these are because of how lightweight they are, even the $10 ones with the light & AA batteries. I just hope I don't end up like @mikey one day searching for my Optivsior only to find it already on my head!
And NO, I'm not old yet!