[LargeFormat] Polaroid film/ My first photos

[Stuart Phillips]

The BTZS hood works very well.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Wolz" <wolzphoto@worldnet.att.net>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 10:53 AM
Subject: RE: [LargeFormat] Polaroid film/ My first photos


> I use a black skirt - size 12US, as I recall.  It has a tie around the
> waist which fastens it to the camera, and a zipper which is quite
> convenient for slipping in a focusing device.  Works better than any
> actual lens hood I've owned!
> 
> Karl Wolz
> 
> 
> Dear Nephew John,
> 
>      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.
> 
>     Your point about the focussing hood is well taken - semantics,
> again. We
> of the more elegant school refer to it as a focussing cloth. In my case
> there is absolutely nothing more elegant than a 1.5 metre square of
> fraying
> black broadcloth that alternately wraps around the neck in a strangle
> hold
> or slips off the camera while you are trying to focus. It is a wind
> magnet.
> I resist adding weights to it or clipping it to the back of the camera
> as I
> just know that if I do it will either whip round and get me in the eye
> or
> pull the camera and tripod over like HMS CAPTAIN in a heaving sea.
> 
>     In the studio I have resorted to a Linhof right angle viewer  -
> picked
> up secondhand unused by someone who had no idea what it was. It is a
> godsend.
> 
>      Uncle Dick
> 
> PS: I have stopped looking through the right angle viewer during the
> actual
> exposure as it is hard to distinguish fine detail in the subject through
> the
> film holder. Much better to just look over the top of the camera.
> 
> 
> 
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