Well I'm about to get my feet wet again. I have my new to me camera, my first lenses are due today. I just cobbled together a gg loupe from a broken Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens that to my eye is as sharp as my Zeiss 3x 6x6 film loupe and in a couple days I'll have my roll film holder.
I would like opinions on why focusing with a loupe is any better than trial and error reiterations with the fine focus knob. I seldom use any movements other than small front tilt and or front rise. Normally I focus with highpower reading glasses by normal methods. Once everyting looks equally sharp I use the fine focus knob to go back and forth till I find the middle ... or the sharpest focus that 'I' can see.
I have to do the same thing if I use a loupe. What I see with my eyes is never 'tack' sharp as with my old and astigmatically challenged eyes nothing is ever perfectly sharp unless I have my 'real' glasses that are not as powerful as the 3x five and dime reading glasses I use. I can't stand looking through a loupe with any glasses on. I have focused my loupe so that it is sharp for me except for the astigmatism.
This is probably not comming through clearly. I should probably get special glasses made only for view camera focusing. So apart from the glasses thing .... why is a loupe better than the other focusing I described?
Thanks.
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