[LargeFormat] Polaroid film/ My first photos

[Peter De Smidt]

>
>      Do not tease your cousin Becky! Pulling your shirt up
> over your head to
> cover the back of the camera is a terrible thing to do,
> unless you have a
> tattoo of a lens with the aperture centered around your
> belly button.
>

My favorite 4x5 focusing cloth is a heavy sweatshirt of a dark color.
You put the neck over the camera back.  On a number of cameras this
will get rid of all of the light leaks.  Plus, you can wear your
'darkcloth' if it gets cold.  And it's cheap, as you probably have an
approriate sweatshirt already.

-Peter