One of my favourite presents this Christmas is a photographer's loup (my
husband wanted his back in his darkroom). They are actually magnifying
devices designed to look in detail at photos, and examine grain etc. [...]
It is small, and folded up is only 2 x 1.5 x 0.5 ins, so is easily stored
and transportable.
Since '99 (when, according to *my* standards, I flipped from being "poor girl" to an almost rich one), I've accumulated lots of gadgets; some have proved their worth, some haven't.
The gadget called "linen tester" (which sounds very much like Karen's "photgrapher's loupe") is paying me back -- in spades. I have one by my pillow, another in my pocketbook, yet another by the 'puter, and one "floating"... I don't think any of them have a magnification ratio above 5 (I think most of the lenses are 3X), but they've all become "sine qua non" (without which not). Someone asks me about an old (and forgotten) pattern? I peek at it through the linen tester and figure out what I'd done. I'm trying to *reproduce* a part of a pattern I'm developing and didn't document properly? I look at the stitches through the linen tester and "remember" whether I twisted once or twice... I find the *calibrations* (in mm and in increments of inch) useless, as none of the threads I work in begins to aproach a 1mm thickess, and the differences would need to be counted in some less-common units. But it does the "grunt work" of enlarging witout flipping the picture upside down as the pocket microscpe -- with its 10 magnification -- does)
----- Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/
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