Very true. For effect, I've taken a couple dozen wide angle pictures over
the years with the sun somewhere along the top edge, usually in one corner
or the other, and never had a malfunction. I wasn't even blinded. However, I
wouldn't look through the viewfinder with a telephoto mounted and the sun in
the frame. On the other hand, there would be little reason to,
compositionally.
Frank Paris
marshalt@spiritone.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of B.Rumary
> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 5:32 AM
> To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> Subject: Re: filmscanners: Vignetting?
>
>
> In <5.0.2.1.0.20010131154337.00a149f0@pop.freeserve.net>, Stuart wrote:
>
> > But,of course ,no-one would do so while looking through the
> viewfinder as
> > this would be extremely detrimental to ones eyesight and if
> the shutter
> > was released would it not burn the blind ??
> >
> I don't think this is true of SLR's, as the image is formed on the ground
> glass screen and then the eye at the viewfinder looks at that
> image rather
> than the sun itself. In a viewfinder camera this might be different, as
> there is no ground glass screen; you look straight through the viewfinder
> lens(es). Also the mirror in such a camera covers the shutter blind until
> the last second, after which the blind moves very fast, I doubt
> if it would
> be focused on the blind of film for long enough to have any effect.
>
> Brian Rumary, England
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