Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I wear a pair of +2.75 reading glasses ($9.95 at WalMart) which puts me in focus at about 8 inches from the contact sheet. This is close enough to make a pretty good guess as to the quality of a 35mm frame, and having both eyes open helps keep headaches and eyestrain away. Bright light is essential, though. If I want to get closer I swing down a 5x loupe that I clip to the top of the lens in front of my right eye. This loupe is a generic Chinese product that I picked up for under $10 from a guy with tables full of miniature tools and cheap optical items at a gun show, train show or camera show (can't remember which, as he appears at all of them.) It has a small rubber coated spring clip to attach to the lens, and can be swung up out of the way easily. Cheers, Kip Dan Honemann wrote: > What do you use to view your contact sheets? Now that I have a stack of > these to wade through, I'm finding myself going bleary-eyed and wanting > something better than my handheld magnifier. > > Dan