I liked my Vivosun 30/60x – but it requires that I essentially mount the plant to see anything – and I think I keep damaging the trichs in the process. And when sticky shit got all over it, which is inevitable, I think rubbing alcohol permanently melted the lenses. Cmon!
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I’ve been looking to upgrade my $10 clip on scope with a good loupe. Ive read there is a big difference between a true 10x loupe and the cheap knockoffs and keep seeing the brand belomo recommended but haven’t been able to talk myself into it yet.
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A jeweler friend directed me to that one and I like it very much.
He claimed it has the color & clarity of loupes costing 5X.
I bought both the 10x and 15x, much prefer the 10x.
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Glass is preferred. Alcohol and other solvents will permanently damage the cheap plastic loupes.
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That’s on point @NoCal, a high quality 10x, and a tripod are enough, along with basic editing. Clip it on your iPhone with a clothes pin or whatever. Adequate, not elegant.
My $0.02,
-Grouchy
Ps belomo 
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I propose if anyone needs a loupe to tell when your shits ready…, You need to grow more or just be in the plants presence more!!
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Some of us just like the additional assurance a close-up view provides. It doesn’t make us all noobs or boobs. 
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Trichome porn is awsome! Idk if budshot is still a thing but you just attach it to your phone…
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“Cynical i’ve become in my ways” – i also have like 3 of em plus a digiscope -
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I use the loupe for pest identification more than flower canvass.
Where I grow the spider mites are firm in their Easter tradition, they ‘rise from the dead’ after 3 days…
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I like to be RIGHT in their presence. Microscopically. I’m going to shrink myself down like Mike TeaVee and dance around on them.
I don’t have good answers. I broke my first loop and bought a USB microscope I like. I need to get it mounted to a tripod to help with clarity, especially when taking pics
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Hey CkNugz: I’m a noob, so I need a loupe to help me understand part of the process. Someday, I hope to develop the nearly shaman-like capabilities of guys like you who can judge by vibe when it’s ready. (I’m being serious, for sure.)
We all start somewhere, right?
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had a belemo 10x for maybe a decade now, worth it, and does the job, thing is with nigher magnification is one you need more light and two your depth of view is very shallow, a true 10x works well for our needs.
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If you have an iPhone just use your magnifier app and you can see trich’s very well. No need to purchase anything. Or just use your camera and zoom in.
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Here ya go! Not the best of focus!, Yet, there was no need for these pics because you knew, i knew they are ready!!
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hahah I DID KNOW! My loupe action sucks, but my third-party visualizations are working great, man. Thank you. 
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Ding ding ding. Thank you. Last message I saw yesterday and I immediately said to self, “Your joints are older than this guy’s. And not in a good way.” Thank you.
And I was in the navy……. back when I had new joints!
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Right on, shipmate! 
1986 - 1991, USS Nimitz (CVN 68), Correspondent/Journalist, Gulf War.
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