Loupe System

Hello everyone.  Glad to see that you are enjoying your loupes.

I will be at SIHH all week next week, so if you see me running around with my large Loupe System pelican suitcase, do stop me and say hi...

Cheers!

Bello vedere che anche in questo casino nazionale qualcuno riesce ad emergere! In bocca al lupo!!

Grazie!  Ma purtroppo ti devo confessare che vivo all'estero da ormai 25 anni... 

Oh boy a new toy! Looks great Alberto hoping for that 10x though.

I hope we will be able to bring it out, but there is only so much one can do to bend the laws of optics!!! 

How soon will the lighting accessory be available to purchase?

We are finishing the first prototypes, which we plan to launch in Basel this year.  Depending on production schedules, I expect that they will be available for purchase either at that time or shortly afterwards...

Alberto? Are you Italian too? (I'm from Varese)

Eh si!  Romano de Roma... 

I'll be the first one to buy a 10x when you finish developing it! It should still have the same number of lenses, just more magnification right?

Indeed, the 10x will also have 5 fully multi-coated optical glass elements arranged in three groups in it.

On an iPhone 6, our loupe is just a tiny bit more compact:

http://instagram.com/p/vLswcbrG8z/

http://instagram.com/p/vLsyLXLG9D/

LOL!!! That is awesome...

To be honest, I think that for an olloclip that is pretty good.  Bear in mind that our loupes have 5 multi-coated optical glass elements in them, some as large as 38 mm (1.5 inch) in diameter, so it is not really a fair comparison...

This, BTW, is what you can get on an iPhone 6 with our 6x loupe if you also zoom in with the phone.  It is just an ordinary invoice, obviously printed with an ink-jet printer at 8pt font size, I would guess.

http://instagram.com/p/vLuQNfrG5f/

Ok thanks. There definitely are limits in eliminating chromatic aberrations using small lenses.

Eliminating chromatic aberration on the edges of the image field is exactly one of the points we are working on...

Is 6x the highest magnification?   I typically use 10x and 15x loupes.  

For now, 6x is the highest we offer.  We are working on a 10x loupe, but I am not currently happy with the performance of the optical design we were able to get thus far (though to be honest I am in the minority here, as most people who have tried it are impressed), and I will only bring it out if we manage to put together something extraordinary.  No point making "just another 10x loupe" - we are striving for another disruptive game-changer, like our Model 01 6x loupe...

Hello everyone!

Long time watch collector, turned loupe maker.  I hope it is ok for me to post here - if not, please accept my apologies and delete this post. 

I will not comment on whether our loupes are worth their price (though I'd love to if you really want me to!), but if you have any questions as to what sets them apart from all others, what accessories will be coming for them, and how these loupes came to be, feel free to ask...

Cheers,

Alberto