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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Derry" data-source="post: 1236455" data-attributes="member: 55358">was just looking (10X loupe) at my test chart printed on glossy photographic paper and the smallest resolution is in the 17 line area,, can see some in the 18 but after that the lines are really blending,,Allan, I printed the test chart out on legal (8.5 X 14") letter quality paper and the 20 lines are "barely" readable with the loupe,, that is the largest size I have to print and cannot handle any wider paper,,with paper and printer abilites differing I agree that we need a larger or different chart, perhaps the Coke can mentioned prior or something we all could obtain that is printed the same to remove our printers limitation(s),, at least we would all be shooting an exact item,,any thoughts,,  I also notice the right side of my photos are a tad more out of focus that the left,, apparently the chart was not at a true 90 degrees to the scope,, an error on my part (??) as I have never seen that in any other photos taken through the scope,, set up is very critial as we are dealing with a very shallow DOF as we all are aware,,Derry</blockquote>