[LargeFormat] Polaroid film/ My first photos

[john frost]

I was thinking 'focusing' hood. I usually just pull my shirt /jacket 
over my head, however you may be more modest. I have heard of everything 
from black beach towels to $60 custom hoods with Velcro, rubber bands, 
and fish weights involved.

john (:>))) in seattle, rain coats work well.....

rstein wrote:
> Dear Becky,
> 
>      If you are looking for a hood there are plenty of them in the northern
> suburbs around here. They used to live out in Midland but they got more
> money and moved up-market.
> 
>     If it is a lenshood you want, you have several schools of thought.
> 
> 1. Measure the filter diameter of the lens you have. Probably 52 to 58 mm?
> Maybe even 62 or 67. No matter - get a wideangle solid lenshood for this
> diameter.
> 
>     Wideangle since when you move the lens up, down, or sideways it will
> tend to see a little more up down or sideways - kind of like looking out
> under your own eyebrows. If you have a normal size hood out there you may
> start to get vignetting.
> 
> 2.     Ditto for the measurements and the wideangle, but make it a rubber
> one. Then if you start to vignett you can fold the hood out of the way.
> 
> 3.     The compendium or bellows lenshood will generally let you adjust not
> only for the depth of draw but also for the angle of the aperture - you can
> get a good shading of the lens but avoid any vignetting. They can be dear,
> but are available on the auction market as well. In a pinch you can make one
> from a scrapped old bellows camera.
> 
> 4.     So what's wrong with painting flat black inside of an ice cream
> container and sticking it on the front of the lensboard, already? Pecan
> Fudge is the icecream of choice.
> 
>     Niece, you can do ANYTHING with a 4 x 5 large format camera. If it ain't
> available any more it can be remade. If it can't be aforded it can be
> cobbled up. If it can be coated onto a piece of flat paper you can take a
> picture on it, and that includes the Pecan Fudge ice cream. When you use
> your large format camera you may be snap looking, but you will not be snap
> shooting. You will be creating the picture, not just capturing it.
> 
>     You will also have special licence to do things that other photographers
> would not approach. People will take you seriously when they see the size of
> your apparatus. They will obey when you command. You will be permitted to go
> places and do things - push old car bodies down into slot canyons, spray the
> State Governor with canned string, line up cats, etc. You must just adopt a
> fearless and positive attitude.
> 
>     Uncle Dick
> 
> 
> 
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