Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Some manufacturers consider 1x to be the same as viewed with the naked eye, hence a 4x loupe can only be 3x magnification. Others use a different formula. Peter K - -----Original Message----- From: Larry Kopitnik [mailto:kopitnil@marketingcomm.com] Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 6:14 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Loupe help >Trouble is these "x" times numbers don't seem to translate to anything in the >real work. Well, as someone who has tried a bunch of loupes, I can say with certainty that the image through a Schneider 6x Aspheric is larger than the image through a 5x EMO Macromax, and the image through a Peak 7x Anastigmat is larger than the image through that 6x Schneider, and the image through an 8x Canon loupe (their expensive one; they also put their name on a cheap plastic one) is larger than the image through that 7x Peak, and the image through a 10x Schneider loupe is larger than the image through that 8x Canon. Larry