micah_marty1 Posted June 16, 2000 Share Posted June 16, 2000 American/Parisian photographer Man Ray tells this story (don't try this with important clients!): <p> ". . . I've even taken photographs without a lens on my camera. Once, I had to photograph a painter and I arrived with my studio camera and tripod and everything. I started to set up, but I'd forgotten the lens. I knew the size of my lens because I prescribed my own glasses, I knew optics so well. I knew that my lens had a 12-inch focal length, but of course I realized it would be a very fuzzy picture. I had a roll of tape and taped my own eyeglass lens onto the opening in my camera and just let the black cloth down, with a little hole in it, to diaphragm it. I opened the cloth and let it down, and I got the portrait of Matisse--a beautiful, soft-focus photograph with all the details visible." <p> So next time someone with glasses asks you, "What lens should I buy?" you can (if you believe Man Ray) just tell them to save their money for film (because they'll probably want to bracket a bit!). . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triblett_lungre_thurd Posted June 16, 2000 Share Posted June 16, 2000 sure it's true! and I once saw McGuyver build a 20x24 view camera out of a jar of mayonnaise, an old Gideon's Bible and two lines of cocaine. Why, I myself built a pinhole camera out of my rectum and the hood off of a '63 pontiac Sun Chief....it uses coffee instead of film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_singleton2 Posted June 16, 2000 Share Posted June 16, 2000 Not only that, but if you wear bifocals, you've got one of those trick near-far filters! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harleyman7 Posted June 17, 2000 Share Posted June 17, 2000 Also with Trib's pinhole camera, your pictures will have a nice brown tone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_henderson1 Posted June 19, 2000 Share Posted June 19, 2000 Don't think this will work well with my astigmatism! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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