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2. Magnifying glass - Wikipedia

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   A pen seen through a magnifying glass Jim Hutton as detective Ellery Queen, posing with a magnifying glass. A magnifying glass is a convex lens that is used to produce a magnified image of an object. The lens is usually mounted in a frame with a handle. A magnifying glass can be used to focus light, such as to concentrate the Sun's radiation to ...

3. Dermatoscopy - Wikipedia

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   There are two main types of dermatoscopes, hand held portable and stationary mounted type. A hand held dermatoscope is composed of a transilluminating light source and a magnifying optic (usually a 10-fold magnification). There are three main modes of dermatoscopy: [2] Nonpolarized light, contact ; Polarized light, contact

4. Loupe - Wikipedia

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   A photographic loupe for examining film and prints. A loupe (/ ˈ l uː p / LOOP) is a simple, small magnification device used to see small details more closely. [1] They generally have higher magnification than a magnifying glass, and are designed to be held or worn close to the eye.

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6. Fresnel lens - Wikipedia

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   Fresnel lenses are used as simple hand-held magnifiers. They are also used to correct several visual disorders, including ocular-motility disorders such as strabismus. [73] Fresnel lenses have been used to increase the visual size of CRT displays in pocket televisions, notably the Sinclair TV80. They are also used in traffic lights.

7. Binoculars - Wikipedia

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   Binoculars concentrate the light gathered by the objective into a beam, of which the diameter, the exit pupil, is the objective diameter divided by the magnifying power. For maximum effective light-gathering and brightest image, and to maximize the sharpness, [27] the exit pupil should at least equal the diameter of the pupil of the human eye ...