I wear glasses and got away with a relatively cheap (maybe 15 quid?), plastic lensed magnifier for years. I used a lower magnification than some here, 1.8x from memory.
Wearing spectacles should not be a problem.
I would think carefully before investing 50-60 quid in something like an Optivisor. That's a lot of money if you get it wrong!
You need to establish what magnification works for you for a start. I had already worked this out with my cheapo magnifier. A lot of people go for 2.5x but I found that too much for me. The Optivisor 2.5x magnification has a short focal length at just 8", so you will be very close to your work. I eventually bought one with 2.0x magnification and a slightly more practical 10" focal length (it's their DA-4 lens).
You can buy different lens for an Optivisor (they call them 'lens plates'), but they cost almost as much as the entire magnifier, not something you want to be doing because you originally ordered a set that you don't like.
The Optivisor is obviously a better piece of kit than my old one, the lenses are far superior, but I still use the old plastic one if, for example, I really need a higher magnification. I'm too tight to spend the best part of 50 quid on lenses I use once in a blue moon when I already have the plastic ones, which are good enough, in their cheapo headband
Wearing spectacles should not be a problem.
I would think carefully before investing 50-60 quid in something like an Optivisor. That's a lot of money if you get it wrong!
You need to establish what magnification works for you for a start. I had already worked this out with my cheapo magnifier. A lot of people go for 2.5x but I found that too much for me. The Optivisor 2.5x magnification has a short focal length at just 8", so you will be very close to your work. I eventually bought one with 2.0x magnification and a slightly more practical 10" focal length (it's their DA-4 lens).
You can buy different lens for an Optivisor (they call them 'lens plates'), but they cost almost as much as the entire magnifier, not something you want to be doing because you originally ordered a set that you don't like.
The Optivisor is obviously a better piece of kit than my old one, the lenses are far superior, but I still use the old plastic one if, for example, I really need a higher magnification. I'm too tight to spend the best part of 50 quid on lenses I use once in a blue moon when I already have the plastic ones, which are good enough, in their cheapo headband
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