Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 9/30/99 7:26:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, drpuritz@li.net writes: << Would really appreciate some feed back and advice concerning the loupe that other Luggers use to review their slides and contacts. Specifically, what do you use, what magnification do you suggest, and is an aspheric loupe notably better? With thanks in advance, Elliot >> I used an Emo Macromax 5x (made in Wetzlar) and a Horizon 8x for a long time, happily, until one day in the office I was wearing my 8x Zeiss binocular surgical loupes (attached to a pair of prescription eyeglasses on a flip-down bracket) when I took a short break to look at some slides that just came back from the lab. It was amazing. Surely they're the perfect complement to Leica slides. Not surprisingly they cost about as much as a Leica lens ($1800 when I bought them several years ago) but now I have a real problem going back to a photo loupe. DT