Re: Using my Realist

[MarkKernes@xxxxxxx]

This may sound like a strange question, but does anyone have any experience
taking pictures with a Realist through the open spaces in a chain link fence?
Last Christmas/New Years, I scouted around Los Angeles looking for attractive
holiday displays that would lend themselves to being captured in 3D. Several
of the best ones were entirely surrounded by fencing to keep out vandals -
and photographers, it would seem. I set my camera on a tripod anywhere from
three to six feet from the fence and set my DOF to the center of the display
itself, and the pictures didn't turn out badly; a bit blurry possibly due to
overexposure, but I'm working on that.
But it occurred to me that if I put my Realist right up against the fence, so
that one lens of the camera looked through one "hole," and the other lens
looked through the hole next to it, only the viewfinder would be blocked by
the fence wire, and I could see enough to get a decent frame on the picture.
The rangefinder should be unaffected. Is this a valid thing to do? Has anyone
else done it? If so, what are the problems associated with it?

Mark Kernes


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