Thanks again, UP

[Mo2vation]

Picked up my own UP Magnifier. I dive so slow now, and I'm so smitten with inverts, I often find myself just hanging out over a rock, or inches away from a wall just watching all the bustling of the small life.

Now its not so small.

Thanks for another great idea, Uncle Pug.

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Ken

 

[Uncle Pug]

Super Ken!

 

[Kim]

Aren't 'older' eyes a wonderful thing!

 

[Mo2vation]

Aren't 'older' eyes a wonderful thing!

I wish I had this with younger eyes, too.

In Pug's neck of the woods, the bottom is just moving. It always amazes me on each dive up there how much is going on in the deep shell soil that is the bottom of the Sound.

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Ken

 

[Kim]

I wish I had this with younger eyes, too.

In Pug's neck of the woods, the bottom is just moving. It always amazes me on each dive up there how much is going on in the deep shell soil that is the bottom of the Sound.

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Ken

It's pretty much like that most places I've been. I never understand 'speed' divers. Each to his own I guess. Actually I get it in the garden too. I can just watch a small piece of ground for ages - it's amazing all the stuff going on!

 

[Uncle Pug]

Ken, are you using the lens by itself or have you sandwiched it to trap air next to the lens?

 

[Mo2vation]

Ken, are you using the lens by itself or have you sandwiched it to trap air next to the lens?

Lens, as in Camera lens? I just put this thing between me and the critters.

Me so dum. I'm not following.

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Ken

 

[Uncle Pug]

Well... by lens I mean the magnifier thingamajiggy. Without getting into the specific magic of making things bigger... it has to do with the difference between air and the lens material.

Problem for us is that there isn't that much difference (the kind that counts in this case anyway) between water and the lens material... so the magic isn't as strong.

If you trap air on each side of the lense the full magic comes back. You can trap the air by gluing flat plastic onto each side of the magnifier.

 

[Mo2vation]

Well... by lens I mean the magnifier thingamajiggy. Without getting into the specific magic of making things bigger... it has to do with the difference between air and the lens material.

Problem for us is that there isn't that much difference (the kind that counts in this case anyway) between water and the lens material... so the magic isn't as strong.

If you trap air on each side of the lense the full magic comes back. You can trap the air by gluing flat plastic onto each side of the magnifier.

Put a 1/4" or 1/2" wide plastic strip down the sides of the thing. That way I can blast the reg once, trapping a square bubble 'tween mag thingy and critter.

Got it.

Thanks for the tip. Tomorrow is its maiden voyage. I'll see if I can scrounge up some material tonight for the mod.

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Ken

 

[Uncle Pug]

Bubble!

Good idea.

Of course that is only on one side of the lens but it should definitely improve the situation.