location recce without the Rolleiflex.

[Hamster]

In 35mm photography, one can estimate the angle of view of a lens by placing your thumb about the same distance as your chosen focal length in front of your eyeball. For instance, to estimate the coverage of my 55mm lens, I would put my thumb 55mm in front of my eyeball. The area covered by your nail would approxmate the coverage of the lens.

I have been recceing some location that I intend to photograph with my rollei TLR. But since the rollei is a bit cumbersome to travel with (i'm on a bike in urban areas that are not very safe). Also I don;t have lens cap or hood and don;t want to damage it.

Is there some aid or rule that I can use so I know roughly what area would be covered by my 75mm rollei?

 

[jovo]

This should help:

http://photo.net/photo/lens-table

 

[ic-racer]

Try using the distance from the tip of the thumb to the MP joint (metatarsal-phylange joint, basically the whole length of the thumb) at 75mm from your eye. My thumb is almost exactly 6cm. Of course you can hold your thumb vertically or horizontally

 

[Sirius Glass]

Make image frame cards for each lens as describe by Ansel Adams. I think it was in the book Camera.

Steve