On the magnifying glass Mand...

The wider the better obviously. Maybe more like 12.7 or 15.24 cm for the widest possible field of vision.

Uhmm. One of those vanity lamps thingies? Hell, you'd be posting shots of trichromes in no time, I'm wagering you.

Ha. Who knows. This time next year? You're on the cover of -- pause - well -- not Rolling Stone, hon, but almost certainly National Geographic will pick you up and well, best that when they come a callin' to pick up the pics from your photo journalism research on trichromes, that you not be lounging around without proper legwear and so on and so... I shall now retire once again to the foyer of noobie unworthiness. Gawd and here I was stuck with the shoe fettish too.