In her effort to depress me even more, mother nature made a rather startling (to me) revelation in my darkroom the other night. I was looking at some beautiful 7x11 Pyro negs on my light table with a loupe and thought that they weren't quite sharp. I was ready to fault the taking lens when I just for the fun of it looked at the negs again but this time with my other (left) eye. Well!! This time they were eye-etching sharp. This is not a matter of adjusting focus of the loupe; in both cases the loupe was optimally focused. So, it seems that one eye has much higher resolution than the other even though both can recognize optimal focus. Not sure why this bothers me - I guess I worry that I won't be able to see as sharply as possible one day. I hate this getting old(er) *hit... Any idea if this difference in resolution carries over to life size objects (I haven't noticed that it does!) and whether the poor eye can be corrected with another lens to improve resolution through the loupe? I pretty well get as much enjoyment from processing and viewing negs as from my Pt prints, so this is an issue for me! Comiseration welcome!!
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