Re: viewfinder

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Rollins" <jrollins@starband.net>

> I made a viewfinder by taking a exposure from a known distance from an
> object, & developing. I then returned to the scene, stood the same
> distance and cut a template out of cardstock to match the photograph. I then
> cut a viewfinder out of heavy plastic using the template.
> Very elementary, perhaps, but it seems to give me an idea of the intended
> scene if the viewfinder is held the same distance from the eye.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Dilcher" <dilcher@hiddenworld.net>

> I have an even simpler solution. I have a small rectangle with
> a 4x5 inch whole cut in it. It looks like a little frame. I hold this
> up to my eye, and, voila, viewfinder!

I also use a piece of cardboard with a 4x5 cut and a shoe lace attached to the
cardboard, the shoe lace has knots at distances corresponding to focal lengths
useful to me (75mm, 90mm, 135mm, 150mm and 240mm). I consider the above a
composing aid and not a viewfinder. When using glass lenses, you could easily
aim your camera to match the image you "saw" with your composing aid, you have
the aid of the GG (functioning as viewfinder). For pinhole, the aiming of the
camera would require some more help, like using GG+extra big pinhole lens, guide
lines at the sides and top of camera box, wire/peephole frame matching the
format in use or similar contraption.

Guillermo
Received on Tue Apr 23 15:14:54 2002