Looking for a scene Loupe (monocle)

[Pirate]

I'm looking for a loupe to use for looking at a scene before I pick up the camera.

Can anyone help me out with some brands, models, styles.... any of those details so I know what to look at?

Would this work: http://www.amazon.com/Viewfinder-Ma...qid=1372264860&sr=1-18&keywords=viewing+loupe

thanks!

 

[mdarnton]

Nope--that's a magnifier for the screen on the back of a ditigal camera, not a finder. What you need is an old Linhof universal (zoom) finder, or one of the old Leica variable finders, like a vidom or viooh.

 

[gshybrid]

What aspect ratio? You could try director's viewfinders

 

[Pirate]

I'm looking for one that would be equivalent to a 50mm lens.

"Directors Viewfinder" - that would work! I couldn't think of the right wording. A friend of mine was using one at a shoot we did last weekend but I can't get ahold of him to find out what it was.

Thanks guys.

 

[mdarnton]

The cheap way, BTW, is to hold a 35mm slide mount 2" from your eye.

 

[Pirate]

I have one of those, I'll have to try that.

 

[Chris101]

I thought the real cool way of doing that was to use the thumb and index finger of each hand to make a rectangle. You then turn your hands at oblique angles right in people's faces to get them irritated right before shooting "angry portraits" of them.

 

[ferider]

Why don't you just use your M3 ?

 

[Pirate]

Using the M3 is just to simple. ;-)