Re: Masking down close-ups: an idea...

[bercov@xxxxxxxxxx (John Bercovitz)]

Eric Drysdale writes:
> SO, as a cheap alternative to producing many different size mounts, and 
> an easier, more accurate alternative to cutting aluminum mounts or 
> masking with tape... I propose producing film masks corresponding to
> several window depths that could be sandwiched into a regular mount
> with our close-up views.
 
Actually, if you want to mount to infinity, all the RBT mount would need 
would be a little room to sandwich in a mask for the left side of the left 
chip and the right side of the right chip.  The left and right masks would be 
the same; just flipped over relative to each other.  The mask could hook onto 
some additional pins for this purpose to the left and to the right of the 
apertures.  You could get them in different widths to move the window in 
different amounts.  Now this will pull the window off the screen but that 
doesn't bother me.  It ought to move off the screen if it's closer, right?  
8-)
 
As an alternative, to be used with my idea of an ideal camera, described 
earlier, how about a wide RBT mount made to take a full mask?  Then you could 
sell masks that pin register to these proposed mask pins.  Might even be 
cheaper than stocking so many sizes of RBT mounts.  Now you can sell punched 
out masks to mount to the window and punched out masks to mount to infinity 
(for my camera).  Since they're just a punching and have no slots as with an 
Albion, they'd be very cheap.
 
John B


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