"Recommendations for Lighted Magnifier " Topic

My close-in vision is deteriorating and I'll need some sort of lighted magnifier in order to keep painting. Anyone have a recommendation for such a device? Brand? Where to look or buy? Thanks for any suggestions.

Do you want a visor or a desk lamp? I found both on Amazon for the best price, even with the chain craft stores discount coupons. The desk lamp is by Ott. It also can use a floor stand, has LED lighting, a magnifier and a clamp to hold the figure. Its a little over $100. USD
The visor can be had for $10 USD

I use an Optivisor with a couple of LED desk lamps. In fact, I use two Optivisors, one with a #3 lens and another with a #4 lens, depending on the detail to be painted.

I get 3.0 reading glasses from Costco $20 USD Cdn for 3 pairs and an good lamp.

I would second wrgmr1 – 'reading' glasses or 'cheaters' and a good lamp. The light from the lamp will make the iris in your eye contract, increasing your depth of field which ALL magnifiers decrease.

I also strongly recommend trying out what ever you look at (if possible) and see if there is any distortion when looking thru the lense – some cheaper magnifiers don't have very good lenses – some make rainbows and others vary in strength all over the place.

If you still have good long vision, take off any glasses or visor magnifier before you try to walk around, at best things will be blurry and you may get vertigo and fall over or walk into things.

Thanks for the advice everyone. I'm leaning towards a desktop model as opposed to visor.

Have you already tried just a good light? I haven't needed a magnifier since I got an Ott light ($30 on Amazon).

Thanks, Cedric, I'll take a look at the Ott light.