Should lead fishing weights be sewn in the hem of a dark cloth?

[BrianShaw]

... I would never let form trump functionality. ...

Please be mindful of potentially political statements.

Ha ha ha

[Drew Wiley]

I shoot in the wind quite often. To me the notion of weights in a darkcloth seems outright insane. I would have lost either an eye or my groundglass, or a lens long long ago with that idea. Velcro.

[goamules]

You have a narrow window of wind force where this may help at all.

For winds of 0-10 Knots: plain cloth
10-20 Knots: light weights or cloths pins or split shot. Enough wind to be helped by slight weight, but not enough to blow the edge into the ground glass.
20-35 Knots: velcro and duct tape
35- full gale: stay home

[vinny]

Mine has rare earth magnets sewn in and more magnets epoxied to the camera. It works okay. I just like magnets

[Jerry Bodine]

Another option and lots of videos for use and sizes:

http://quietworks.com/FRAMES_FILES/B...OME_FRAME_.htm

[Drew Wiley]

We not only get sneaker waves here on the coast, but in Spring some real sneaker gusts of wind. I've turned my back for a moment and even had my 8x10 and
big heavy Ries tripod lifted up just like a kite and tossed twenty or thirty feet. Luckily, each time it landed on something soft like a lupine bush. I gave up trying
to shoot by mid-afternoon a week ago due to the wind atop a ridge. Then those mountain storms... I've got a few shots where I lay on the ground below the tripod acting as my own ballast, holding a long cable release. Most likely, I removed the darkcloth completely after the ordeal of tying to compose and focus the shot in the wind. But all it takes is a second or two of calm, and the shot is bagged. Might take half an hour waiting for that moment; but heck, that is what the game is all about!

[Kirk Gittings]

I shoot in the wind quite often. To me the notion of weights in a darkcloth seems outright insane. I would have lost either an eye or my groundglass, or a lens long long ago with that idea. Velcro.

Ditto, I have had a broken ground glass from a lead weighted dark cloth blowing around in the wind. Velcro rules in this application.

[HMG]

Bring along the biggest split shot you can find. But don't sew them in. Crimp them on one day if it's windy. I bet you'll never use them. Here in AZ, yeah....very windy. We had steady 25 knots wind yesterday, and gust to 40 knots. Trying to keep a darkcloth that is not bungied down to the camera is a pain, at times.

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[Mark Sawyer]

"Should lead fishing weights be sewn in the hem of a dark cloth?"

If the dark cloth is wrapped around a lawyer and you're pushing him into a lake, yes.

[Kirk Gittings]

"Should lead fishing weights be sewn in the hem of a dark cloth?"

If the dark cloth is wrapped around a lawyer and you're pushing him into a lake, yes.