ZooMax Snow 12 Review

Amazon for the Zoomax Snow 12 described: https://amzn.to/3yqcXZW Amazon for the Zoomax Snow 7: https://amzn.to/3DNctxK Support us on Patreon:   / atspear   This is a review of the ZooMax Snow 12 which is a portable magnifier device for people with low vision. Thank you to Palmer Vision at www.palmervision.com. Don't forget to like, comment, and click that subscribe button for more! TRANSCRIPT (5000 characters only, sorrry): Hi, this is Shandra. I'm about to show you some of the features of the ZooMax Snow 12. Now, there's a lot of videos out there on this product, and a lot of them are more polished than mine. But I like to give you a "real" representation of what it would be like if you bought this product the first time, using it, figuring it out, just like we're doing. So first off, to turn on the ZooMax, you press and hold the power button for three seconds. That's also the way you turn it off. You press and hold for three seconds. A single tap of the power button puts it in "standby" mode . So I'm gonna press and hold, one, two, three, and let go, and now it's coming on. I didn't time that, but what, five seconds maybe a little longer, still coming up. All right, now I've got a part of the product instructions in here but you can see that it turned on into like CCTV mode. If you need to "focus", you just take your finger and tap the screen and it'll "auto focus" but you can zoom in, and zoom out, with these buttons down here on the bottom. So here's the "plus" sign so I'm going to get plus going a little bit bigger. And that's at 15x right there. I'm gonna go ahead and give it a focus. It's about as focused as we're going to get apparently. Let's see how big it goes. 16, 17, 19, okay so "19x" is your max magnification, and if we go all the way down "2.5x" is the smallest magnification. So even if you put it on here you're gonna get some magnification. There's a "contrast mode" button right here so we're in "regular video mode" that looks like "dark mode" where it's, you know, black background with white text. I would say this is a "high contrast" mode which is great for printed material, a little bit crisper, it's definitely not video quality, it's magnified. All the blacks, all right, blue background with white text, white background with blue text, dark bro, dark background with yellow text, yellow background with black text, dark background with green text, green background with black text. I thought we'd been here already but apparently not. Dark blue background with yellow text, yellow background with dark blue text, and back to video mode. Okay, so now we went through all the contrast modes. So pretty much if you're going to use this as a CCTV to read printed material. This is where we're at, so "zoom in" "zoom out". We have a light. Okay, so now we're going to do some real world examples. I always think you should bring your own stuff to any product demonstration so that you get a "real world" you know, test. Things that you might read. So I've got a book of short stories including, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and I've got this turned on. All right, you notice it's real blurry. We tap the screen and then it will focus. Actually, I'm gonna start by reading, the, uh, the left side, so this is in "regular" video mode and I can read that just fine. Zoom in, zoom out. But I'm gonna change this to, here's" dark mode," zoom in, zoom out, and, actually, I'm going to go one more to "high contrast." All right, I can see this just fine. "On the 9th of January, now four days ago, I received by the evening delivery a registered envelope addressed in the hand of my colleague and old school companion Henry Jekyll." So this is real easy. One thing I did read, is that you can TURN OFF the contrast modes you don't need. So when I need to go back to the video mode, if I didn't need all these extra colors, I could take some of those out of the menu options. All right, now I've got my handy "crushed red pepper" which I like to use as an example because this has got a recipe on the back. So assuming that you were trying to read a prescription bottle I think this would be pretty clear. All right, so there's the crushed red pepper and there's the recipe. 5x even at 6x, I can see that pretty good. Let's see if we get any more focus out of it. Oh yeah, it got a little bit crisper. "Mix two cups each, cooked chicken and shredded cheddar cheese, one cup chopped tomato, quarter cup chopped green onions, and a half teaspoon each crushed red pepper." So that was pretty easy to read this bottle. Now I've got pudding, and if you can see here this is tiny writing. I picked this out because this is really little. All right, so let's put this under here. Oh wow. Okay. I, because it's a box, I can't get it any further away. So maybe if you had a big box you might actually need to take this off the stand and raise it yourself because 2.5 x is the smallest but I can read that clearly.