Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:01 AM -0700 23/8/2000, Rick D wrote: >At times I've found it to be a pain, when >taking portraits against the light with me and camera in the sun - need >to get a bystander to hold a large plastic box lid between the sun Hey Rick, that's why those ubiquitous baseball caps were invented! Dintcha know, all those cap wearers own flary Leicas! Seriously though, a cap can cut a lot of that flare from the rangefinder. I think Tom A suggested a post-it note with a hole punched in it, thus you minimize the light and still get the framelines. All the best, Gary (The City Lights Bookshop cap wearing M3 owner who never has flare for anything!) - -- "The difficulty now is that unexceptional adults believe the loss of youthful dreaming is itself "growing up," as though adulthood were the passive conclusion to a doomed activity and hope during adolescence." OO The Uses of Disorder [_]<| Personal Identity and City Life -- Richard Sennett /|\ Gary Elshaw Post-Grad Film Student Victoria University New Zealand http://elshaw.tripod.com/ http://elshaw.tripod.com/photointro.html