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Re: [OM] Best power for looking at slides?

Subject: Re: [OM] Best power for looking at slides?
From: Donald Shedrick <shedridc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 18:04:11 -0800 (PST)
Edmund Industrial Optics and Edmund Scientifics have a wide selection
of loupes.  They are not cheap, but I have found them to be of very
high quality with super sharp images:

6X wide field:
http://www.edmundoptics.com/IOD/DisplayProduct.cfm?productid=1742

12X:
http://www.edmundoptics.com/IOD/DisplayProduct.cfm?productid=2020


--- Skip Williams <om@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Best "bang for the buck" is probably one of the inexpensive Peak,
> etc.  
> 
> There are a number of great loupes on the market.  Leica's aren't
> made there, if I remember right.  I think that Schneider makes
> Leica's loupes.  Wetzlar is the German town where Leica Camera used
> to be based, but they've moved to Solms.  
> 
> Other loupe makers of note
> 
> Schneider
> Rodenstock Apo
> Maxwell Precision Optics
> Contax Carl Zeiss Triotar
> NPC
> 
> I've got an older Schneider 4x and a Maxwell 6x.  The Maxwell is
> spectacular, with a very wide field for the whold 35mm frame.  
> 
> Skip
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> >--- danrich <danrich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Thanks members for the great info on how you look at your
> slides!
> >> Regarding eye loupes; what power is best to look at slides?
> >> I have a cheap set 2x 5x 10x, looks like 8x would be best.
> >> What eye loupe is the best bag for the buck?
> >> Leica, Schneider, WETZLAR, spendy.
> >> Dan
> >> 
> >> 
> 
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