Re: Autoexposure Follies? (was Re: Nikon Data Backs

["Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

On 15 Jul 98 at 16:10, pico wrote:

> Willem-Jan Markerink <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>:
> 
> >And it even offers tall enough film rails to accommodate the 0.4mm 
> >thick #87C foil....
> 
> I'm going to have to try that, but for a different reason. To hide the
> filter. Why? Example: I was shooting from a bridge yesterday and two people
> laughed and said "Hey, you have your lens cap on!" (using a large IR filter
> on a medium format camera.)

That's embarrassing indeed....8-))

One of my reasons was reducing the hassle with filters, and creating 
a convenient solution for all lenses at once, and one in particular: 
a Sigma 8mm/f4.0 circular fisheye. It only offers *internal* screw 
filters, for which you have to 'break' the lens in half....not 
something I wanted to do in anything *but* very clean conditions.

In a later stage, I dedicated another EOS-1 body to EIR, by simply
mounting a piece of #12 medium-yellow between the film rails
too....that way I have *no* hassle with filters whatsoever....the
right body automagically means the right filter. Absolutely
fool-proof (and be sure I messed up more than once in the past....my
favorite shooting conditions, standing on a ski slope in a nasty
- -20C wind, simply forces me to very fast handling, otherwise my
freezing fingers start to protest....the thought of fiddling with 
filters in those conditions, with freezing fingers, is a nightmare on 
its own as well....8-))




- -- 
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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[note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!]
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