[LargeFormat] Groundglass Magnifiers

[john frost]

I'm using a Yashica screw mount lens. about 50mm f1.2. It is the only
one in my collection that focuses perfectly on the GG. I put a rear lens
cap on it, after I drilled out the center, to protect the aperture pin
(and my eye). large flat field, and the price was right.

Rich Lahrson wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
>       I've just received a jeweler's loupe to use for focusing my new
> 5x7 modified Seneca:
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=964064350
> 
>     I could only look at the Schneider photo lupes (and I've owned the
> 8x one in the past) due to the cost of these today.
> 
>     Advantages?  Well, it does have both 4x and 7x mag.  Plus it weighs
> 10 grams.  Disadvatages?  I believe the field coverage is smaller than the
> Schneiders and it is not focusable.  But it'll do the job.
> 
>     What kind of loupes to other large format photographers here use?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rich Lahrson
> Berkeley, California
> tripspud@transbay.net
> 
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