Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:30 AM 3/15/1999 -0600, Eric Welch wrote... >At 11:20 AM 3/15/99 +0000, you wrote: >>Alas, the glossy finish of the polaroid is a fine catcher of unwanted >>reflections! Can anyone will experience of copying work suggest what I >>can do to eliminate these reflections? > >Do it in a dark room with flash. :-) Unless you use two light sources at 45 degrees, you will experience uneven illumination, reflection, or both. Use two strobes, evenly matched, or two tungsten lamps. > >Unfortunately, that's the choice. You either have to do it in a dark room, >or put something dark behind yourself, like a thick row of shurbbery or >something else that won't refelct in the print. You can try laying the >print flat on the floor/ground, and then putting the camera on a tripod. >But a bright sky will reflect. Making copies outdoors is very difficult. > Amen to that. Do it indoors. If you use tungsten lamps, use tungsten film, such as Kodak E64T, or a correction filter for daylight films (80A). Mike "Sing whatever is well made..." - -W. B. Yeats