Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/08

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Subject: Re: Off topic -- good loupe
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 23:42:32 -0700

At 12:49 PM 7/8/97 -0400, you wrote:
>
>The best loupe I've ever used is a 5x loupe from a company called Emo, 
>located in the little town of Wetzlar.
>
>This loupe has the best optical quality of any that I have used. I've 
>never used the Schnieder loupes. Another one you might look at would be 
>the new Zeiss loupes, which I've seen advertised lately.
>
>- Paul
>

As I said earlier, I have the Schneider 6x Aspheric and the 5.5x NPC. What
I didn't say is that I also have the Emo loupe (made in Wetzlar) and,
unfortunately, it's not as good as the NPC, which is not as good as the
Schneider Aspheric.

Jim