Re: ground glass orientation

You may wish to try the BTZS focus cloth -
http://www.darkroom-innovations.com/BTZS_Focus_Cloth/btzs_focus_cloth.html. I
don't use one, but I've heard positive comments.

Cheers -

george

--- Jeff Dilcher <dilcher@hiddenworld.net> wrote:
>
> 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...
>
>
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Received on Mon Apr 22 12:04:00 2002