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Best Loupe up to 6x9

arcimboldo

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Hello,
i was looking for a good loupe up to 6x9. would you consider different magnifications for 35mm, 6x6 and 6x9? Did Linhof fabricate loupes?
Kind regards from Germany
 
Do you mean a loupe that will cover the entire 6x9 slide or neg?
 
use an approx 75-105mm taking or enlarging lens. makes a fabulous loupe.
 
I've got the pricey Schneider, but this is by far my favorite loupe. It has the opening in the skirt which makes spotting or retouch a breeze - you can actually spot the grain back in with a small enough brush, so you can go beyond just spotting. It's focusable, and disassembles with a spanner for cleaning. I think of it as the BMW of loupes.

The camera-lens-as-loupe - I think it sucks. Unless you have three hands.
 
I'm sure this loupe is great for spotting and for smaller formats but you can't see the whole 6X9 frame with a 6X loupe at the same time the magnification is too powerful you need 3X.
 
What exactly are you looking to do? Do you need one loupe for the entire screen, or are you content with a smaller loupe that you can move around the ground glass? I use a 7x thread counter I bought from a craft store for $5. To me, it works as well as anything else out there. Plus it's small, cheap, lightweight, folds flat, and I don't care if I lose or break it because of how easy it is to replace. I use it for all formats where I compose directly on the ground glass. But I'm near sighted, so I don't need any correction, just magnification.
 
with respect to reversed lenses, I use a lens from an old Kodak slide projector. Like the taking lens solution, it's a very small field.
 
I use either a Schneider or a Carl Zeiss lupe made for 6x6 format for looking at 6x9 negatives. I have the Schneider lupe for 35mm as well. I seem to recall that Linhof made some lupe things to look at the ground glass of their cameras.
 
I use the Mamiya 6X7 loupe for this duty and get a decent view of what I need. I cringed a bit when I impulsively bought it but is truly a great piece of glass.
 
benjiboy said:
I'm sure this loupe is great for spotting and for smaller formats but you can't see the whole 6X9 frame with a 6X loupe at the same time the magnification is too powerful you need 3X.
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Naah, all I "need" is a loupe I'm happy with - never felt the need to see a full 6x7 or 4x5 frame through a loupe (I keep a pair of cheap 1.5x readers by the light table) (and in every camera bag and by the computer and scattered all over the house actually...), 35's another story. YMMV, to-each-their-own of course. But man, spotting is a dream with that thing. I've gone beyond "spotting" and just replicate the grain in a given area. It can be pretty cool. Had a neg where the pattern of some hedges looked for all the world like a face peering out; just painted some more leaves in. Kinda cool.
 
The 5.5x Pentax is also excellent. Solid quality, focuses, 60mm diameter clear skirt, coated optics, not cheap. ...Worth it...
Reinhold
 
I wasnt here for a longer time so i forgot to answer. I am sorry. Thank you for your answers. What is Salgado using here

I think i am looking for a loup which enables me to see a whole 6x6 or even 6x9 slide
 

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That appears to be a Cabin loupe...? I think it may be like the Mamiya that I own but the Mamiya does not have the rubber ring and has a plastic scallo- style body.
 
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