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I enjoy soldering and repairing electronics, both old TV's, radios, and
modern circuitboards. Unfortunately my eyesight isn't what it used to be,
my nearsightedness has gotten worse the past two years. Now I'm thinking
of buying a decent workbench magnifier lamp, like one of the Luxos.

My basic question for people who have made such a purchase, did you go for
the 3 or 5 diopter lens, which gives a magnification of 1.75x or 2.25x.
The price is pretty much the same either way and I'm sort of leaning
towards the 5 diopter. My only concern is that maybe too much magnification
might introduce errors or distortion?

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Luxos are very good, although a tad spendy. The optical quality is
excellent and the lights are plenty bright, evenly diffused, and of
pleasing color. The 1.75x will give you better depth of field of course,
and likely to be more than enough if your eyes are just now beginning to
be problematic. If you're hand soldering 0402 components, that's another
matter...

I have a range of magnification tools available: reading glasses in five
different strengths, luxos, magnifying visors (Optivisor is a good
brand), B & L Stereozoom microscopes (7 - 30x), and a high end camcorder
mounted solidly above the workbench, with a 26" monitor. Each is used
according to the demands of the day, and often two tools in conjuction.

If you're not afraid of spending real money, Mantis microscopes
work very well. The ones I see on eBay are $1500 though.