[LargeFormat] Focusing Loupes (was Re: Darkcloth hoods?)

[Les Newcomer]

I have the Toyo too, as well as a 4x loupe that fuji gave away here for 80
box tops from 35mm film, it's very very good.  I also have a brass loupe
made by Darlot from about 1870-90 or so.

My wife got the uneviable job of stickering all my slides-- I gave her all
three and she picked the oldest one. Said it was sharper than the
multi-coated high tech versions.

for hard to focus lenses (say Tele-dagor) I've managed to stick a coverslide
to the rough ground glass first with mineral oil. It won't stay for ever but
I'm still working up the courage to put my gg in the oven at 350 with a rock
of canada balsam. and it allows me to look at the aerial image with a 10x
loupe--one of those small ones that get you too close to the gg.

> From: Jim <jim@visualimpressions.com>
> Reply-To: largeformat@f32.net
> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:48:44 -0800
> To: largeformat@f32.net, largeformat@f32.net
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Focusing Loupes (was Re: Darkcloth hoods?)
> 
> A few years ago I personally settled on the Schneider 6x Aspheric loupe. I
> have a Boss screen in my Technikardan 45S which, for all intent and
> purposes, is grainless. The 6x seems to be perfect (for me) for examining
> the image for sharpness.
> 
> Jim Brick
> 
> 
> 
>> At 6:21 pm -0600 13/2/02, Lee Carmichael wrote:
>>> Clive,
>>> I have the same focus loop.  I have never bothered with any kind of case
>>> for it.  I just wind the string around the barrel and stick it in my back
>>> pack.  When I am working I just wear it.  I have had mine for several years
>>> and have not scratched anything.  Any loop longer that about 6x is too long
>>> in my opinion.  You start to see the grain of the ground glass.  You loop is
>>> about 3.5x or so.  It will serve you well.
>>> 
>>> lee
>> snip
> At 12:47 AM 2/14/2002 +0000, Clive Warren wrote:
> 
>> Hello Lee,
>> 
>> Thanks for that - maybe I'm being too precious :-)
>> 
>> Agree with you about the magnification factor - 3.5 is good for me and the
>> rough ground glass of the trusty old MPP. There is almost a religious
>> fervor associated with opinions about optimum magnification for loupes.
>> Some people swear by 6x and greater but I have found this to be too much
>> even with a fine ground glass.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Clive
> 
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