POPLOCKMagnifying Glass with Light, Anti-Drop Rubber Frame Protection, Non-Distorting 3X Optical Lens, LED Work Light for Dark Area, Soft Grip Handle. EDC Magnifier for Reading, Close Work and Hobby.

With my eyesight getting worse, this is very handy

I have bad lighting ares at work and this works perfect!!!

FIRST, I MEASURE THE TRUE MAGNIFICATION OF THIS PARTICULAR MAGNIFYING GLASS TO BE ONLY 1.5X. If you pull the glass almost entirely out-of-focus, you can get about a 1.8x magnification in the center spot. YET THE MAGNIFICATION STATED ON THE BACK OF THE BOX IS 3X. AND THE MAGNIFICATION STATED IN THE TITLE OF THIS LISTING IS 4X/5X.More below about the exaggerated magnification claims many of these glasses make … after the rest of the review of THIS product.Compared to A LOT of other inexpensive magnifying glasses sold online, this is a much better-built instrument with a quite precise lens. MAGNIFIED TEXT IS EXTREMELY CRISP, SO THIS WOULD MAKE FOR AN EXCELLENT GLASS TO AID IN READING. The LED switch is of solid-build, the batteries seat firmly and the LED does not flicker.The glass arrives in a quite sturdy box to prevent damage in shipment. And the glass does have its rubberized coating. Plus the circular lip extends above and below the lens. So, with all that, the lens will arrive unscuffed/unscratched.The glass does NOT come with any kind of protective microfiber or velvet carry/storage pouch. There are no instructions included in the box. The glass does have one LED at the six o'clock position. THE LED IS VERY WEAK; it will be of zero use, other than in the dark … and even then just barely of use. If you are shopping for a magnifying glass that will provide significant illumination, shop elsewhere. Further the color/temperature of the LED could be more on-point; instead of it being 5000k daylight, it is more of a 6000k blue tint.The glass does already have installed in the handle the required three 1.5v LR44 coin/button batteries. You just need to pull out the clear plastic tab that is preventing the batteries from completing a circuit; you do not even have to open the battery compartment to do so. LR44s are alkaline batteries. When you need to replace the LR44s, consider substituting three 1.5v 357 batteries; they are the same dimension, they are NOT alkaline but silver oxide and so they will last 30% to 100% longer and output a more constant voltage.The glass lens is clear. There is very little image distortion, a very sharp image, when the glass is held precisely at the correct focal length. As you start pulling away from the correct focal point, however, significant distortion manifests around the outer perimeter of the lens, though the center of the image still remains pretty sharp.The glass lens is 75mm (2.95"), exactly as stated on the box. The total length of the glass is 195mm (7.67"), again, exactly as stated on the box. This glass is also somewhat ergonomic, beyond its rubber coating; when set upon a flat surface, the handle angles up slightly off the surface, making it easy to grab.CONCLUSION: As said, a much more precise instrument & lens than most of the magnifying glasses being sold here. But, again, it is only 1.5x and the LED is just useless. Excellent for text, but for magnifying coins, stamps & small precious stones, 1.5x is likely not going to be entirely sufficient.* * *MAGNIFYING GLASSES AND THEIR EXAGGERATED MAGNIFICATION CLAIMS: Online sources provide a great deal of information about how magnifying glasses work (information that is not seen on webpages here). That a traditional magnifying glass is usually in-focus in the 1.5x to 3x range … and they also state that it is EXTREMELY COMMON for sellers/makers to knowingly exaggerate the magnification as being 5x, 10x or even 30x. And because SOME of them exaggerate, they ALL have to exaggerate, in order to appear competitive and comparative against the other exaggerated claims. (Reminds me of those Vegas hotel 'resort' fees: because SOME of the hotels hide part of the total price as a resort fee in the fine print, they ALL have to do it, else they falsely look to be more expensive when comparison-shopping.)For a magnifying glass to actually surpass 3x, apparently, physics requires the glass be of LESS diameter than the 3" or so that a traditional magnifying glass usually is. (Or, less commonly, that the maker 'double-up' the lenses so that the second lens is further magnifying the output of the first lens.) The lower diameter, combined with the increase in magnification, means the left-to-right width of what you see through the glass is much less. Think of a jeweler's loupe magnifier, typically 10x to 30x; the jeweler can see very small defects inside a diamond … but he can't see anything much more left-to-right than the actual diamond itself. That might be OK for someone magnifying diamonds or coins or stamps, but to magnify typical things, like small print, you would actually want your left-to-right width to be much wider than that. Said another way, a traditional magnifying glass is going to be no more than 3x … and you don't really WANT it to be much more than 3x anyway.It turns out that it is quite easy to calculate the true magnification of a glass. You just compare the size of the image to the size of the actual object. So … look at how much width of an in-focus ruler can be seen through the glass; that is the magnified image of (that part of) the ruler. Use that number as the denominator. Now measure the actual diameter of the glass; that is the actual width of the (part of the) ruler you magnified. Use that number as the numerator. Divide. And that's the true magnification.I was actually a bit surprised to have discovered all of this. I have had an inexpensive '5x' magnifying glass laying around the house for years; I just measured and it turns out, to my surprise, it is actually also only about 1.5x.SUMMARY: So, again, all those other 3" lens magnifying glasses that claim 5x or more, that's just marketing BS. They will NOT be more than 3x.

A wonderful visual tool

Advertised as 5x. It says 3x on packaging box.