I'm a lens designer

[Tin Can]

What's wrong with the Silvestri tilting loupe? Part way down on this page:

http://www.silvestricamera.com/eng/p.../lupes_eng.htm

I just picked one of these up on here and I think they're still being produced. Not cheap, but of good quality. I have yet to try it to find out if I prefer the Silvestri over my Rodenstock 4x. I do need some sort of rubber to stick to the bottom of it to keep it from scratching my ground glass.

I used to use one of those long tube-like loupes but grew to hate it, because I couldn't see much of the ground glass with it.

They are back ordered at B&H. I put in a notification of availability request.

Looks great to me!

[Larry Kellogg]

Glad I could help! It's amazing how little things matter so much. I didn't know how bad my loupe was until a couple of professional large format shooters told me it was terrible.