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Do Leica make a magnifying lupe? Can anyone recommend a good one? I had an old Nikon one,but my 13 month old daughter smashed it.I need a big one to look at medium format negs too.
-- Phill Kneen (philkneen@manx.net), February 13, 2002
You don't need a big lupe to look at big negs,it just means you get more magnification,so big isn't always necessary.
-- Virgil (leicavirgin@hotmail.com), February 13, 2002.
No,I mean big as in surface area,not magnification.I think my Nikon was about x5.Who makes those nice big zoom lupes?
-- Phill Kneen (philkneen@manx.net), February 13, 2002.
Phill,I recently bought a Pentax x5 loupe. Works well for 24*36 and MF. I can easily recommend it.
-- William Westergren (westergren@skynet.be), February 13, 2002.
Both Pentax and Rodenstock make good 'big' loupes. Pentax makes two versions, a 5.5X and a 5X - 11X zoom. Rodenstock makes a great loupe that is apochromatic but is only 3X (fine for MF - not so hot for 35mm). I've settled on the Rodenstock, to get an overall view of composition on the contact, plus a 12X jewellers loupe to check neg sharpness works g
-- Bob Todrick (bobtodrick@yahoo.com), February 13, 2002.
Don't forget to consider the Schneider 6x6, although it's not a zoom. Peak also makes a large loupe, but it's round and less convenient.
-- Ralph Barker (rbarker@pacbell.net), February 13, 2002.
Schneider make some nice ones: I have a 4X 6x6, a 4X 35mm and a 10X. The 4x times are the most useful, but the 10X is useful for checking critical sharpness. They are all expensive. You might like to look at Mamiya. I hate buying loupes: you never know whether you are going to like them until you own them. All the Schneiders have been recently redesigned - more plastic in them, but actually in this case I think this is better as it does not then scratch glasses. The other classic MF loupe is the 3 x Rodenstock Asph which is very nice. It was a toss up between the Schneider and the Rodenstock for me for 6 x 6. In some ways the Rodenstock is a nicer loupe, but it is a matter of personal preference. Calumet have the Rodenstock loupe much cheaper sold under their brand name I now see...
-- Robin Smith (smith_robin@hotmail.com), February 13, 2002.
I have an EMO Macromax which I bought new about 4 years back. It says "Wetzlar" on it and looks very, very much like the new Leica loupe.
-- Jay (infinitydt@aol.com), February 13, 2002.
Phil,I use the Calumet Magnifier 6x6. It's 3x power with aspherical optics. Works great.
-Nick
-- Nicholas Wybolt (nwybolt@earthlink.net), February 13, 2002.
Leica has a 5x loupe. It is the reincarnation of EMO Macromax 5x loupe designed by Authur Seibert of EMO- Wetzlar.EMO also has Octoscope, a combo consists of 4 lupes and 8 combination of magnifications, from 2x up to 28x, suitable for viewing all sort of negatives, slides, from Minox to LF.
-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), February 13, 2002.
Thanks Martin! I'm glad I wasn't hallucinating.
-- Jay (infinitydt@aol.com), February 13, 2002.
Here is a good thread from previous discussions about the Leica Loupe: http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch- msg.tcl?msg_id=001Bhz
-- Anam Alpenia (aalpenia@dasar.com), February 13, 2002.
I like my Pentax Lupe a lot. Quite large and handy.
-- Rob Schopke (schopke@attbi.com), February 13, 2002.
A big loupe gernally will have less magnification, not more. This is because the larger loupe has a greater stand-off from the negative, and a correspondingly greater focal length. Magnification is inversely related to focal length.Magnifying power = 10/focal length in inches.
-- Bob Fleischman (RFXMAIL@prodigy.net), February 13, 2002.
My all time favorite lupe is an old 50 summicron. Cheers!
-- Don (wgpinc@yahoo.com), February 13, 2002.