Try bringing your right up to the rear element. Alternatively reverse the lens
so
you are looking through the front element. There is no advantage in bringing
your
eye closer in this configuration and your lens to subject distance will be
greater
though your field of view will be less also.
Giles
Acer Victoria wrote:
> I decided to look at some slides with my 50/1.8 MC since I heard all this
> talk of using it as a loupe. Not much magnification, is there? Also, the
> sides of the slide were bulging out. I believe it's called barrel or
> pincushion distortion; since I was looking at the slide from the rear
> element, is it right that the film too would see this distorted picture?
> Or will the subject to lens distance (practically nil in this case)
> matter?
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