[Histonet] Magnification

[Gayle Callis]

There are magnifiers that attach to your safety glasses or  directly to 
eyeglasses. - the latter clip onto top of my prescription glasses.  There 
are magnifier pasties you can attach directly to outside of safety 
glasses.  Henry Schein company (they have a website) in dental 
products,  has clip on eye loupes.  I have also purchased them from 
knitting stores (Patternworks website, and sewing stores).  The magnifiers 
that clip onto top of frames are more versatile and fit onto all eyeglasses 
- the ones with wires only fit onto large frames.  These will run about 
$20/pair.

There is also the possibilty that cheap magnifying eyewear, funky colors, 
etc can be worn under safety glasses - each technician can have their own 
eyeglasses for their favorite style and magnification. Cheap reading 
glasses have  magnifications from 1, 1.25, 1.5, 1.75, 2 and 3X.  They range 
in price from $10 to 20$ - found at WalMart, KMart, Target, supermarkets 
and drugstores, Pearle Vision . There are pencil thin reading glasses in 
mall kiosks, etc - up to 1.75 mag.  These are totally funky, and coolest of 
all!!





  or At 08:48 AM 9/3/2004, you wrote:
>Our Derm Path doc wants me to poll the Histonet subscribers about what 
>everyone uses when they're embedding tiny tissues such as derms. Any 
>creative magnifiers out there?
>
>Angela Bitting, HT(ASCP)
>Technical Specialist, Histology
>Geisinger Medical Center
>100 N Academy Ave.
>Danville, PA 17822
>phone  570-214-9634
>fax  570-271-5916
>
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Gayle Callis
MT,HT,HTL(ASCP)
Research Histopathology Supervisor
Veterinary Molecular Biology
Montana State University - Bozeman
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Bozeman MT 59717-3610
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