Use your phone to make it easier to see your beam scale


glasses?

I don't need no steeeenking glasses

yeh, what you doin when the battrie goes dead?
you need an app
sooner or later you realize how good those glasses work on other things as well.

Shouldn't have painted the bloody thing!!

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Originally posted by graybird:
Shouldn't have painted the bloody thing!!

Yup!

You do that for every charge? I think I'll stick to my four eyes..

Im not taking a picture

It is a live action magnification image

Way bigger than my readers will give and with the benefit of no angular deflection

Does it work with sights too?

I have no idea what you are doing; must be an I phone thing. I have no "I" products, being stuck in a previous age.

No pair of laxes -

Clever idea Ted, thanks for posting it!

All he is doing here guys is setting his phone on camera and fixing it in a stand. Anyone with a camera phone can do the same and before he posted this I had never thought that my phone now has a built in magnifying glass that I'll have with me most of the time.

I'd still borrow some bright red nail polish from the wife and use a toothpick to fill in those lines though.

Mark

My phone has a dial - not a camera.

It is portable though. I can unplug it and take it into the next room and plug it back in...

I haven't had a land line phone in a long time

The handheld device is hardly a phone these days

My "phone" is faster than my HP laptop I bought in 2010 that sits idle for weeks at a time as I do more and more with my handheld

And yes......its just a quad core 1080P 6X magnifying glass with 5" screen

Fill that line with a black Sharpie ! That would be hard for anyone to see.

idle

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Originally posted by dpcd:
idle

I suppose your correcting my spelling error.

Thank You for spending your time.......

Sure, any time. I can' t help it. Nothing personal.

great idea

reminds me of this...
A few years ago, I was at Disney with the family. we couldnt see the wait time on a ride a couple hundred yards away and instead of fighting the crowds to get closer, I took a pic of the sign with my Nikon D90. Then I zoomed the image while looking at the display on the back of the camera and the sign was easily readable.

Today's tech has a ton of secondary uses. think outside the box!!!

This gives me an idea. A small remote camera mounted above the bullet seating die on a progressive press. A small video screen could be used to view / verify the powder without standing up to look.

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Originally posted by Blacktailer:
Does it work with sights too?

That's my question too..!!
You got me wondering if I can Duct tape my Iphone to the barrel of my muzzleloader and get a nice sharp sight picture...??
HHHMMMMmmmmmm

THIS is cool!

I've been doing similar recently with a webcam and my laptop. It helps keep parallax to a min since my scale sets below my line of sight, along with making it big enough to see well.

A simple magnifying glass never needs batteries or any power source...

Is this a powder scale? if so it should not be read when it comes to rest, It should be moving between two equal marks from its setting..

Yes it is a powder scale......with a magnetic damper

No swing

In which case it should be read as it bounces between to equal hash marks..when moving you get an accurate read..It can stop for varous reason including the dampner or dust or whatever and give a false reading...let it come to rest then tap it ever so gently seems to give the most accurate readings.

Yep that's one way of doing things