One option is a cheapo digital microscope.
Plugs into USB, magnification around X200 and I guess you can store pics.
Should be able to find one on the usual online auction site.
Don't know how good they are, but no lives are at stake, good enough I imagine.
More than good enough, actually. It's not the hardware that's the problem; it's
the lack of microscopic training and skill that limits most people from using
this approach to authenticate movie paper. It's unfortunate, but it is
incredibly helpful, if you know what you're looking at. Some of the examples
that have been posted here recently - the inkjet printing was so obviously,
glaringly different than offset or photogelatin printing, and yet otherwise
(more or less) intelligent people like Rich H have absolutely no idea what to
look for. It's so second nature to some of us that we forget that most people
haven't spent a good part of their adult lives peering through a microscope.
Inspecting a supposed vintage movie poster or lobby card under magnification is
not unlike examining slides of a pathologic specimen; in both cases, the
malignant features are much more readily seen than with the naked eye.
Randy
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