ryan rodrick beiler photography » film http://blog.ryanrodrickbeiler.com documentary photojournalism in pursuit of peace and justice Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:13:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Nearly Obsolete Tech Tip: Makeshift Loupe http://blog.ryanrodrickbeiler.com/2010/03/02/nearly-obsolete-tech-tip-makeshift-loupe/ http://blog.ryanrodrickbeiler.com/2010/03/02/nearly-obsolete-tech-tip-makeshift-loupe/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:35:22 +0000 Ryan http://blog.ryanrodrickbeiler.com/?p=221 This tip is probably obsolete for most of my photographer friends shooting digital nowadays, but … I just discovered that a 55mm lens, aperture wide open, makes a nice loupe if you don’t have a real one handy. That is, looking directly through the lens—not with it attached to a camera.

I’m doing a lot of scanning these days, so it’s critical to be able to check sharpness, etc. before popping the negative into the scanner or you end up wasting a lot of time previewing when you can just click “scan” if you know it’s good. Look for a post on scanning workflow sometime soon. It’s definitely a work in progress.

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