ARMD and use of video magnifiers
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Dear All
My 91 year old mother in law lives with us. She has ARMD (wet type).
Bobbie uses an Ipad, Android smart phone and a Kindle. She also does crosswords and colouring using optical mannifiers. She has just joined the Macular society and will be attending a meeting next week.
We are looking at Video magnifiers, we know there are many types and seen videos on Youtube. BUT are there any real people out there who use one and would recoment them.
best regards
paul
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liz24251 paulhipwood
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Liz
paulhipwood
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Thanks for your reply, I have looked on the Ash website. Could you let me know what model you are using.
Do you have a problem keeping the device steady to get a clear picture.
Nana is incredible, I enjoy the discussions we have when she is trying new things out. She perceveres and usually gets there in the end.
regards
paul
liz24251 paulhipwood
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My model is old and it is called 'Presto'. I cnnot see this online and the nearest in appearance is the Ash Eclipse. I have had no problems with keeping it steady or anything else for that matter. As an aside, I did buy myself some portable devices from Enhanced -Vision and they were not cheap.. A 'pebble' and the even smaller 'pebble mini'. The salesman who came a long distance to bring them for me, had not had the foresight to ensure that they werre charged up and so I did not get any demo - which I would have liked as I was not sure which button to press always. It turned out that they wer not really suite to my hope that they would help me read my music in choir. Why I say this, is to perhaps state the obvious, and say make sure that you get a good demo, and perhaps compare a few models - there is a lot available now, so don'r be rushed into anything! Liz
paulhipwood
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We looked at the Pebble, why was this not suitable for you.
Ther are a lot of models on the market and they are a big investment.
But I think you are right you need to try them. A lot of the suppliers do not have a "shop" . Maybe we should get a home demo.
Thanks for your help.
best regards
paul
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liz24251 paulhipwood
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The 'pebbles' were OK but I wanted to use them to be able to see my music in Choir. Unfortunately I could not get everything organised before the rest of the choir had moved on in the music! Trouble with music is that it has to be done on the beat at a fixed time - not always possible with vision problems. They were good for shopping and reading the increasing,y small print on food products these days.
As you say, it is all a huge investment and worth getting home demos without oblifation where you can. Liz
paulhipwood
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We went to Somerset sight and had a demo of about 6 magnifiers.
We short listed the Pebble HD and the Ruby HD.
We are going to arrange another demo in Wolverhampton.
Will let you know how we got on
best regards
paul
liz24251 paulhipwood
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paulhipwood
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We have finally bought a Pebble HD, apparently they have just started selling a stand for these. so we bought one as well.
This needed a modification to get it to be more secure to use.
The device is very good.
But I now realise that you need to "tweak" things to get a more ergernomic wayn of doing things.
I have been able to observe Nana and sugest small modifications.
We have also bought a tilting table and equiped it with a few modifications to make life easier. This is an ongoing project and it is important that Nana give things a try and rejects things that do not work.
I am having good fun using my engineering background to make simple improvements.
I will upload a photo in a couple of days.
liz24251 paulhipwood
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