{"id":17,"date":"2007-04-17T16:25:33","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T07:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondsandopals.com\/blog\/how-we-take-ideal-scope-images\/"},"modified":"2018-08-30T16:07:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T08:07:22","slug":"how-we-take-ideal-scope-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/how-we-take-ideal-scope-images\/","title":{"rendered":"How We Take Ideal-Scope Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ideal-Scope is a handy little tool that can be used and <a title=\"Ideal-Scope Website\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ideal-scope.com\">bought<\/a> by diamond dealers and consumers alike.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe basic premise of the Ideal-Scope is that when put above a diamond, the light returned by the diamond shows up as red areas, whilst white areas indicate light leakage. Eight black arrows stemming from the centre indicate ideal symmetry.<\/p>\n<p>To accompany the Ideal-Scope is the &#8220;Ideal-Light&#8221; which is basically a diffused light below a tray with two small indents to hold diamonds. When paired together, they provide any consumer the power to quickly and easily assess cut no matter where they are.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with the Ideal-Light is that it really is a poor platform for taking photographs.<\/p>\n<p>Up until a couple of weeks ago, we took Ideal-Scope images with the Ideal-Light, however, using a little ingenuity we came up with a better way to take Ieal-Scope photographs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1: <\/strong>Set up a light behind a piece of paper. In this case the paper is stuck to a camera tripod:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 389px; height: 260px;\" title=\"Ideal Scope Setup 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/images\/idealscope-setup1.jpg\" alt=\"Ideal Scope Setup 1\" width=\"389\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Step 2: <\/strong>Attach the pink part of the ideal scope to the camera lens:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 389px; height: 260px;\" title=\"Ideal Scope Setup 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/images\/idealscope-setup2.jpg\" alt=\"Ideal Scope Setup 2\" width=\"389\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Step 3: <\/strong>Clamp the diamond to the a sraight edge of some locking tweezers:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 389px; height: 260px;\" title=\"Ideal Scope Setup 3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/images\/idealscope-setup3.jpg\" alt=\"Ideal Scope Setup 3\" width=\"389\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Step 4: <\/strong>Put the diamond in front of the piece of paper, place the camera flush against the straight edge of the tweezers and take the photo!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 389px; height: 260px;\" title=\"Ideal Scope Setup 4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/images\/idealscope-setup4.jpg\" alt=\"Ideal Scope Setup 4\" width=\"389\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">As you can see, this process literally takes seconds and uses equipment costing under $200 &#8211; <strong>therefore<\/strong> <strong>anyone can do it!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ideal-Scope is a handy little tool that can be used and bought by diamond dealers and consumers alike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diamonds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}