ground glass orientation

I have a Finney camera, and the ground glass is completely useless to me.
Supposedly, the larger pinhole on the rotating turret is supposed to be
large enough to view an image on the ground glass, but I don't find this
is the case. Maybe if I tightly wrapped a focusing hood so that not a
single bit of light leaks through, I might see something! The designer of
the camera even agreed with me, and admitted that the camera was
originally intended as a lens camera- hence the addition of the ground
glass. That having been said, it is nice to be able to swap out the
pinhole turret for a lens/lensboard, and quickly convert to a lens camera,
if I wish...

If you created "guide lines" on the top and side of your camera, you will
be able to compose our photo much more quickly and easily than ground
glass. Ground glass, imo, is really only necessary for focusing, and
there is no need to focus with pinhole.

But, to answer your question, I believe the "smooth" side of the ground
glass is on the outside of the camera...
Received on Mon Apr 22 10:03:05 2002