A loupe a frst for me

[Gazza2001au]

Bought my first loupe thought i would get the best one and it is incredibly difficult to use, i got the 60x 100x with focus and zoom plus LED and UV lights

 

how on earth do u manage to use one of these? mine clips onto a phone

 

i managed one shot and it had to be touching the leaf i wanna know how to do side on shots

[nici]

Im a bit old school, I have a handheld 10x that works fine for trich viewing. Not sure about the ones that connect to your phone camera, perhaps turn off auto focus on the camera settings? I know that if I turn the auto focus off on my Olympus OMD the macro is much easier to work with.

[Gazza2001au]

I might actually try that, i sort of got it working but its very finicky and i'm all over the place with it i think cutting a leaf off than testing it might be easier

[hydrochronic]

The one I have is 60-100x too and you basically have to jam it into the bud and even then it's hard to focus, easiest to cut something off and look at it at the table. For the 30-40x it's quite easy to look at it on the plant though.

[Gazza2001au]

Thanks hydro i was thinking of buying the cheaper $5 ones, the one u explained is how mine works u need to be really close if not touching the leaf

[Harry Bootlace]

mines hand held, on ebay $3 or something posted. small metal thing.

its OK, 

[billygoat]

I had one of those for my old phone, didn't have lights though.

 

I also found it had to touch the plant, but it was because the lenses was slightly recessed.

 

I then used the phone zoom to find the sweet spot.

 

With practise it got easier.

 

Pics were the hardest thing, you see it great on screen, but when you squeeze the photo button it moves the camera ever so slightly and you end up with shit, blurry pics...

[_Puff_Tough_]

you can hardly distinguish if tghe trichs are clear, smokey or turning golden/amber or their bulbous nature without anything that is atleast 150x. Isnt that the point? Edited March 31, 2017 by _Puff_Tough_