Simple Magnifying Glass Method For Viewing Trichomes

[Perception]

Over the last 2.5 years, I’ve spent countless hours with my face up in colas, using a jewelers loupe to inspect trichomes and determine ripeness. Gets tiring, especially if you are crawling around in a tent.

I just discovered that I can hold my 10x jewelers loupe (this is probably a $10 loupe off of Amazon. Nothing fancy.) directly against the camera on my iPhone and it creates a near perfect image! Not quite as good as doing it with your eyeball and loupe, but will work for quick inspections or if you can’t bend over easily or reach certain buds. It’s just SO much easier to use the phone.

I’m sure others have discovered this, but for those who haven’t tried, give it a whirl! Made my morning.

 

[Madbud]

Have you discovered your iphones magnifier? Go to settings, customize controls and click the magnifying glass

 

[Perception]

wow, no, I didn't know about that. I just enabled it, and I guess you just hit the home button 3x to turn it on. I'll take some photos tomorrow morning or tonight and see how it works out! Thanks.

 

[Madbud]

I’m able to drag it up from the bottom of the screen, iphone 6. Then take a screenshot to copy the image to your photos.

 

[Monster762]

Have you discovered your iphones magnifier? Go to settings, customize controls and click the magnifying glass

I never knew. after looking at this I checked it out It’s pretty good. Not as good as my microscope thing but good enough to tell All my trichs are solid white right now About where I want em.

 

[Perception]

I never knew. after looking at this I checked it out It’s pretty good. Not as good as my microscope thing but good enough to tell All my trichs are solid white right now About where I want em.

Yeah, I just played with the iphone magnifier, and it's definitely not as good as holding my loupe up to my camera. The iphone magnifier is just a digital zoom, whereas holding your loupe up to the camera creates and optical zoom and much better clarity.

Here is a picture of the iPhone magnifier (digital zoom):

 

[Madbud]

I found its sharper if you use it at say 8 or so inches, then enlarge the image. Won’t focus much closer.

 

[DTG]

Nice, Thanks for that . . .

Don.

 

[JWM2]

Kudos for the tip. I didn’t know it was available until you said so. It’s in the (Settings > General > Accessibility > Magnifier > On).

Took me a minute to find it :-)