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    Some Great Advice

    Just thought I'd pass on some really wonderful advice I received over the weekend. While shooting with a 4x5 and 90mm, f8, I was having problems seeing part of the image on the ground glass. A bit too dark. A person watching heard me mutter from underneath the focusing cloth and asked me the problem. I told him.

    His advice: "If you had one of those little maglite flashlights under there that would help. I carry one on my keychain"
    "I meant what I said, not what you heard"--Jflavell

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    Brilliant! Now why didn't I think of that.

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    I suppose you have been shooting some close-ups at the end of the day? good light-painting trick ;-)))

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    You, know, John, if you want to see what the image will look like before exposing the film, you can use a digital camera with a flash to take a picture of the ground glass...
    "I love my Verito lens, but I always have to sharpen everything in Photoshop..."

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    The guy probably wasn't all that knowledgeable about photography, or he would have mentioned that you have to have one of those special _black_ maglite flashlights...

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    Some Great Advice

    Hey- Thats nothin'.

    My dad still has no clue about what I do and he keeps telling me about this new Kodak camera that you can plug in on top of an inkjet printer and make prints!

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    Some Great Advice

    There *are* useful if you can place them within the scene (and remove them obviously before shooting), especially in shadow areas and you have some complex movements involved.

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    John,
    this is not a new one. Search the forum for "Maglite" to get more interesting comments. Maglites with removeable head are best suited, because the bare bulb is easier to focus on and you have more options to place the lamp in the scene.

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    Thilo, the novel part of his suggestion was taking the light under the dark cloth to illuminate the GG.

    Brilliant!

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    I always thought this sounded like a good idea but all my small maglites work by twisting the head. Take off the head and ..... no light.

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