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with the smallest one being portable and AA powered (it has a plug option as well.) The light from these
Cabin Lightpanels is so even it's really amazing.
There's very little information on the web with respect to these units so please make an effort to search
them out. They are really a cut above the rest. The even-ness of the light is truly amazing.
Mamiya is importing them into the US for Cabin, which is nice because I had an intermittent problem
with my portable one (which does get a lot of use and abuse travelling with me) and they replaced it
without a question.
-- Gen Kanai, August 26, 1999
When I first read the title of this section (Evaluating Photos), I thought that it would deal with the
difficult subject of the quality of photographs; the issue of subjective / objective values; and questions
like: What makes an image of photographers like Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams or Cartier Bresson
great? Is it the emotions that they transmit, their social content, their opportunity, the beauty of the
subjects, their graphic composition, or certain combination of these factors? I hope that this kind of
questions will be addressed in this section (or perhaps another) of your excellent forum along with the
reference to light boxes, slide-saver pages, loupes, projectors and contact sheets. Julio Garcia Coll,
August 29, 1999
-- Julio Garcia Coll, August 29, 1999
Just wondering why nobody mentioned the EMO Macromax 4x loupe. It is really sharp (tests in german
photog magazines gave EMO and Schneider loups the same rating), and has a diopter correction. Price is
about $100.
-- Franz Waldhaeusl, October 15, 1999
I live in Canada just north of Toronto. Finding a good loupe is a pain in the ass. Most good camera store
have either a cheap plastic loupe or else they have the 8x maginifer by nikon ( not a really loupe) One
day I was at Broadway camera in Toronto looking for a loupe. They had two Pentax, the 5.5x and the
zoom. Nice and big, good quility but out of my price range. ($149.95CDN for the5.5x and $299.99CDN
for the Zoom). I ask the saleman if he had any other loupe, he pulls these new loupe he just got from
Cabin. It is a 4x loupe made in Japn and the casing was all metal. Now I do not know if the salesman
was BS me but he said these were Schnieder loupe under different name. Who cares they were Excellent
optically and only cost $80 CDN.
-- Patrick Wong, January 2, 2000
Loupes: I started out with a cheapo Nikon 8x loupe that is, I believe, a re-badged Peak made as a
promotional giveaway. I covered the clear plastic base with black gaffer's tape. Eye centering is critical,
but you can see an entire 35mm slide. Distortion is severe near the edges, but at the center its resolution
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