Indeed. I'm writing a little book about how to use a Box Camera (whoops,
another bit of shameless self-promotion?). Shooting into the sun when you have
one shutter speed, one aperture and a one element meniscus lens, as most people
did, was a recipe for disaster.
And one other thing that suddenly occurred to me is that with a Box you had to
make your shot - you actually took people out into the sunshine for a
photograph. Anything but good midday light was pretty much unusable so taking a
photograph became an event. I'd forgotten that and I suspect so have most of us
with all the 'features' that we now have.
Pass me my Brownie!
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.soultheft.com
Author/Publisher:
The SLR Compendium:
revised edition -
http://blur.by/19Hb8or
The TLR Compendium
http://blur.by/1eDpqN7
On 17/12/2013, at 4:54 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
> It was a rule of thumb frequently taught and passed down through the ages.
> I was well schooled in it. The exception is obviously when the subject is
> the sun or the sun is in the composition. But most forms of photography
> will benefit when the sun is over one shoulder.
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