Lens hoods

[Martin Aislabie]

Personally I use the darkslide to shade the lens since I have it in my hand during exposure anyway.

This is good practice regardless even if you having a lens shade of some description.

It helps to ensure that you have removed the Darkslide before "exposing" the film.

Its amazing how many blank sheets of film you develop when you start LF - but the success rate goes up pretty fast

Martin

 

[Dave Dawson]

I have a 52mm hood for 50mm lenses, 35mm format, which I want to fit on my Nikkor-W 150mm for 4x5. Am I right to assume that there will be no vignetting and that the two formats are compatible as they are the same focal length?

This question doesn't mention anything about movements etc....So try your lens without a lens hood and then with and find out. If it doesn't then try and get it to i.e. stopped right down and with movements. Then find your limits.

Cheers Dave

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

This is good practice regardless even if you having a lens shade of some description.

It helps to ensure that you have removed the Darkslide before "exposing" the film.

Its amazing how many blank sheets of film you develop when you start LF - but the success rate goes up pretty fast

Martin

Of course when one does this, you can't see if the darkslide is in the image when the exposure is made, so it introduces the possibility for a new kind of error. Don't ask me how I know.