Well, the 83 year old mother in law actually.
She has macular degeneration and is now beginning to struggle a fair bit with reading which she enjoys a lot.
I find it quite hard to navigate all the cheap tat and questionable reviews you find on Amazon, whereas if you look on some of the big organisations, RNIB for instance, the difference in price is pretty big, and could you be getting organisation tax on the same thing and what you can just get cheaper off t'internet anyway?
I'm thinking something with a good light, and probably hand held rather than something with a stand(looks as though some do both) Want a decent quality one like.
Anyone have anything to recommend?
The ones made by Coil are very good, but expensive.
(e.g. https://www.magnifyingglasses.co.uk/acatalog/COIL--Hi-Power--Hand-Magnifiers-Various.html )
My mum has sight problems and she got given one via one of the support organisations (maybe the community nurse??).
Have a bump, anyway.
Could you check the link...
The ones made by Coil are very good, but expensive.
Ooh, thanks. Not heard of them so a good place to start. Seems to be a few vintage ones on ebay.
Not really sure what magnification she would need mind.
Beware 'vintage' ones - I think the better magnifiers have aspheric lenses (possibly on both faces) to avoid the image becoming distorted as you look away from the centre of the lens. This sort of thing has only really become possible with high quality, moulded acrylic lenses. 'Vintage' ones are likely to be normal, spherical, glass lenses.
Try the link again (just a random result for the magnifiers)
should point here: https://www.magnifyingglasses.co.uk/acatalog/COIL--Hi-Power--Hand-Magnifiers-Various.html
(COIL were based in Slough, not sure if they still are)
The RNIB shop has examples of the sort of image / magnification to expect (but I think you may already have seen that).
https://shop.rnib.org.uk/magnification/magnifiers/optical-magnifiers
My Dad used a very bright reading lamp that cost a lot of money, it was on a heavy base about 4’ tall with a flexible head. It used a dimmable LED, was extremely bright and helped him a lot. If that may be of use to your Mother in Law then you can have it for the price of postage. I’ll have to check with the other executor first though!!
Thanks Tillydog! That's really helpful thanks.
Plenty to look at there.
It feels a bit more legit to get something from RNIB or something, but I just wondered whether sometimes you might get the same generic thing cheaper elsewhere, but still, they seem to have a lot of options.
Wheelsonfire1, thank you! That's very generous of you. Yes, I'll ask if it is something that might be useful(I seem to remember she may have some sort of light already possibly) and so if you get the nod, that would be great. 😊
Cool photo RD. You going to tell me all about it? 😉
Many thanks tillydog. Ordered a Coil for me mum
