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Where can I find a loupe that can cover a 35mm frame of film?

jsmoove

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I'd like to find a fixed focus loupe (with around 10x magnification) that covers the entirety of a 35mm frame of film without part of it getting cut off somewhere.
Anyone know of any or own one?
 
@mgb74 Yeah I was wondering about this one too, what the FOV was and if it could cover 35mm, even though the picture shows the negative
 
jsmoove said:
@mgb74 Yeah I was wondering about this one too, what the FOV was and if it could cover 35mm, even though the picture shows the negative
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I have the Carson 5x version which will cover 6x9.
 
The little Agfa loupe is ok. I use the Schneider. For 66 I use a chimney finder for Hasselblad. Collapsible lining testers also work for 35.
 
@Kino Any other 8x loupes out there that are good? It seems 8x is the ideal size for the fov for film after some research. I see there was an agfa 8x loupe, but that was a while back.
Just curious to alternative of the peak
 
jsmoove said:
@Kino Any other 8x loupes out there that are good? It seems 8x is the ideal size for the fov for film after some research. I see there was an agfa 8x loupe, but that was a while back.
Just curious to alternative of the peak
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Not offhand, sorry!
 
I use a Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 standard lens. It makes a great loupe. I can see the entire slide except for the extreme most corner(s)... depends on how I position the lens.
 
AgX said:
Agfa for decades made a 8x loupe in design similar to the linked-to Carson one.
(I just now learned of that Agfa loupe, never came it across...)
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I have one of those Agfa 8x inexpensive plastic loupes. I think it came from Freestyle many years ago. They now sell an own-brand loupe that looks very similar: https://www.freestylephoto.biz/112824-Arista-8x-Loupe

For loupes, the rated magnification is 10" divided by focal length. Thus the 8x loupe has a focal length of 1.25" or 32mm. This means that trying to look at a 24x36mm slide through it would require covering a wide angle. To really cover the slide, one needs to get a multi-element expensive loupe like the Peak, or back off the magnification to a 4x loupe or 50mm lens (effectively a 5x loupe).
 
I have the Carson LL-77 which is 7x, and I can see an entire 35mm negative, but only if my eye is close to the lens - maybe one-inch, or so.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0010PCL5Q/ref=emc_b_5_t
The quality is not bad for the price (but it is only $7. I don't know how they calculate the "7x" part, but I don't believe what I am seeing is 7 times bigger.
 

The cheapest multi-element loupe would be a 50mm standard lens, looked through from behind, as most of us already have a surplus of such or can get such for next to nothing.
However:
-) it does not cover full frame
-) it is lacking a transparent cone (one either would have to hold the lens freely or make some kind of arrest ending in a filter-ring)
-) it is heavy
 
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