Overview

Portable Video Magnifier designed for your lifestyle.

Designed for everyday reading and writing, this intuitive and fully-featured video magnifier provides superb image quality in a compact and portable design.

The lightweight TOPAZ® PHD offers the comfort of a desktop video magnifier and folds away like a laptop. With auto-focus, a wide magnification range, intuitive controls, a wide choice of high-contrast semi-colour combinations, and adjustable reading lines and masks, the TOPAZ PHD offers the freedom to independently read and write anytime, and anywhere – around the home, office, classroom, or on the go.

Specifications

• 12-inch widescreen 
• Continuous zoom: 1.7x to 24x magnification
• Lightweight, collapsible and portable – quick and easy set-up
• Plenty of working space to write and work comfortably beneath the camera
• Auto-focus camera offering superb image quality
• Separate self-viewing camera (up to 2.5x) – apply make-up more easily
• Adjust the appearance of reading materials: 33 high-contrast combinations to choose from (see below)
• Adjust the screen brightness to suit your eye condition
• Tactile, coloured buttons/controls for easy adjustment
• Adjustable reference lines and masks (either horizontal or vertical): easily keep your place and reduce glare
• Find function: quickly zoom out, locate the next area of interest, and zoom back in
• Slide Show mode for hands-free review: scrolls through images every 5 seconds
• SD Card slot to quickly archive images (SD card available separately)
• Carrying case included
• Optional Lithium-ion battery pack (4 hours continuous use, approximately 3.5 hours charge time)
• Optional XY table for more fluent reading

Standard Reading Colour Modes*

There are six factory default colour modes and 27 additional semi-colour modes that can be activated. Select the colour mode that best suit your visual needs, for example, yellow text against a black background:

• Full Colour (True Colour natural image for viewing photographs)
• Full Colour (High Contrast colour)
• White text on Black background / Black text on White background
• Yellow on Black
• Yellow on Blue

Configurable Semi-Colour Modes*:

• Greyscale (for viewing multi-colour adverts)
• Black on Yellow
• Black on Green / Green on Black
• Black on Red / Red on Black
• Black on Violet / Violet on Black
• Black on Amber / Amber on Black
• Black on Orange / Orange on Black
• Black on Blue / Blue on Black
• Blue on Yellow
• White on Blue / Blue on White
• White on Red / Red on White
• White on Violet / Violet on White
• White on Green / Green on White
• White on Amber / Amber on White
• Yellow on Green / Green on Yellow

Dimensions*:

• Working space beneath the camera:
  24.8 cm / 9.75 inches
• Folded, and ready to carry: 
  34.3 x 31.7 x 6.1 cm / 13.5 x 12.5 x 2.4 inches
• Height, when open and ready to use: 
  28.6 to 54.0 cm (11.25 to 21.25 inches)

Weight*:

• 3.8 kg / 8.4 lbs 
• 4.3 kg / 9.4 lbs (with the optional battery) 

*Specification subject to change

Downloads

Find the available downloads for this product here:

• TOPAZ PHD User Manual (PDF)