From: Shannon Stoney (sstoney@pdq.net)
Date: 11/03/02-02:05:43 PM Z
Sandy wrote:
>
>First, have you discarded the remote possibility that the strange
>hexagonal shapes are miniature UFOs with real alien creatures? Look
>carefully at the negatives with a magnifier for any signs of
>portholes that may show lurking inside the faces of strange little
>creatures with big heads. You may be the subject of an important
>alien reconnaissance mission of our planet!!
OMIGOD! there they are! And they're holding a sign! It says, "Vive
cyanotype! A bas silver gelatin printing!" Oh, wow. Another one
says, "Free Leonard Peltier." And: "Houston, we have a problem."
>
>
>For best results I recommend the use a lens hood whenever possible,
>even with coated and multi-coated lenses. The Lee bellows/filter
>holder compendium system is excellent. The bellows attaches via an
>adaptor that screws into your lens and accepts 100mm filters, either
>gelatin or resin, in a filter slot just in front of the lens. You
>can adjust the bellows to shape by hand to correspond to your camera
>movements so that in theory you can always have it in the most
>effective configuration to protect again flare. The bellows is
>available for either regular lenses (square form) or in a
>rectangular form for wide angle lenses. In addition to protecting
>again lens flare this system can greatly simplify your use of
>filters because you only need one set of filters so as you change
>lenses all you need is an adaptor for the lens.
This sounds like just the thing. A lot of the skies in these
negatives are unprintable and I was thinking that a filter might
help. If it also got rid of those annoying aliens, so much the
better.
--shannon
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