i think i need a trip to the opticians

[Emerald]

I have been making beads to go with some of the lampwork i bought and this is the first on of many, i thought i had got it to quite a decent finish till i photographed it and cropped it and all the solder splodges appeared and one piece of granulation upside down

[bustagasket]

i just had my glasses changed too - it has helped a lot but i think i could really do with a major tabletop magnifier

[Lisa Quinn]

I had laser eye treatment in Feb, with brilliant results, the downside ........I have found out that because I am getting old I need to get some glasses for close up work in artificial light!!

Lisa x

[bustagasket]

aww thats not what they say in the brochure

[Solunar Silver Studio]

Oh no girls.....don't you go down that track..... I wear glasses and a magnifying visor with 2 lenses to do my work...mainly because I cant see!! It is a terrific shock when I take them off and see how small the chains I am making actually are to the human eye. Then - like you Jo - I take a photo with all the optical and digital zoom gizmos and all the mistakes are huge!! And I start thinking - "I can't sell that !!" But the fact of the matter is that humans do not have magnification capabilities in their eyes....the general public are not going to know there is a mistake and they are not going to be able to see it anyway!! If you didn't spot it with your glasses on then that is good enough!! Wonderful though technology is...it is persuading us that the world is viewed through a zoomed lens! It's not!!!

[bustagasket]

Oh no girls.....don't you go down that track..... I wear glasses and a magnifying visor with 2 lenses to do my work...mainly because I cant see!! It is a terrific shock when I take them off and see how small the chains I am making actually are to the human eye. Then - like you Jo - I take a photo with all the optical and digital zoom gizmos and all the mistakes are huge!! And I start thinking - "I can't sell that !!" But the fact of the matter is that humans do not have magnification capabilities in their eyes....the general public are not going to know there is a mistake and they are not going to be able to see it anyway!! If you didn't spot it with your glasses on then that is good enough!! Wonderful though technology is...it is persuading us that the world is viewed through a zoomed lens! It's not!!!

Lmao thats very true - i guess thats our perfectionism coming out again