Re: 4 x 5 questions

wow, nice ascii art indeed! :)

since I've seen a few people ask about this and some people suggest drawing
lines on the camera itself, I figured I'd take a picture of one of my
cameras that I did that with. It helps to do what Jeff is describing when
you actually have the lines drawn on the camera. You can get your eyes
right down at the "eye-level" of the camera and follow each line out to
where the edge of the image.

http://www.rahji.com/images/composinglines.jpg

This camera is made of black foamcore and the lines were drawn with one of
those flourescent yellow "gel pens" that they sell at cash registers in
stores. That patch in the middle is where the pinhole is. If you do this,
don't forget to take into account the thickness of the camera "wall" .. in
this case, the camera was made of .5 cm thick foamcore so the lines in the
upper left of the picture, for example, don't actually touch since they're
each started .5 cm in from the end of the camera. I hope this helps!

Rob

> Top view looking down on camera. F line is the plane. B is area inside
> your bellows. P is pinhole, with lines extending in the space. Stick man
> is your beautiful model (I have to much time on my hands today).
>
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> F
> /
> |\ /
> | \ /
> | \ / O
> | B }P \+/
> | / \ ^
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> F
Received on Mon Sep 17 15:32:18 2001