Want to Buy WTB: Loupe for LF ground glass

rhyno0688 · Jul 5, 2015

My father and I both have 4x5 cameras but till this point he has never used his. (though I have used it plenty [emoji2])

I'm looking for a good used loupe that isn't going to cost $100 or more.

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Matt Fattori · Jul 5, 2015

Someone passed this tip on to me and and it has worked well and cost me nothing as I had several lying around: use a 50mm lens from any 135 slr system.

Kirks518 · Jul 5, 2015

FWIW, I'm using a 1950's Agfa 8x loupe, and find it to work quite well. They're cheap ~$10 on the bay, so if I lose it, I'm not out much.

I'm going to try the 50mm....

binglebugbob · Jul 5, 2015

Best loupe you can get is an old slide projector lens.

couldabin · Jul 5, 2015

I made mine -- inexpensive convex lens mounted in PCV pipe. I was careful to machine it to the right length so that the optimum focus is on the far side of the ground glass. Much better than the 8x loupe I had been using ...

rhyno0688 · Jul 7, 2015

thanks for all the suggestions. I just looked on ebay and the loupe I am using is now going for $250 which is crazy because i spent nowhere near that.

Old_Dick · Jul 7, 2015

I remember someone using high power cheap reading glasses.

Want to Buy WTB: Loupe for LF ground glass

rhyno0688

Matt Fattori

Kirks518

binglebugbob

couldabin

rhyno0688

Old_Dick

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