Least expensive accessory that made a difference

[Ari]

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[Pere Casals]

That's brilliant

Thanks! IMHO it is not necessary to use it a lot, but I found it really useful to get a solid criterion about camera steadiness under different field situations, the other way to learn it is to ruin sheets, a painful way

[choiliefan]

That really is a great idea.

[Bruce Barlow]

$3 black Wally World T-shirt that I use as a dark cloth. The neck fits around the back of a 4x5, or reversed, works with a 5x7 or 8x10 with my face in the neck.
$1 carpenter's apron from Home Depot that carries film holders - spotmeter case tied to waist tie string.
Post-Its, for labeling film holders.
Glasses strap, so I can just take them off and dangle them for close composing and focusing.
Spotmeter lanyard, tied to the case and just long enough so when I clumsily drop the meter it dangles rather than crashing on the rock.
Viewing filter for finding framings before lugging camera.
$8 Wally World cooler bags that carry film holders, or lenses in their similarly inexpensive Tupperware containers.

[nbagno]

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[Bob Salomon]

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For less then a good cable release?

[nbagno]

For less then a good cable release?

I'm in California


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[Mark Sampson]

I have two.
1) a 3" gel holder with a home-made 67mm filter ring glued on. Bought for maybe $10 used in 1985 or so.
2) an EdnaLite groundglass focusing loupe, 'liberated' from my portrait studio job c.1981.
Still use them both every time I make pictures.

[David Lobato]

Alarm Clock - to wake me up early and get out when the light is best.

[jnantz]

its hard to pick
fabric shop felt ( 3'x2' ) cost almost nothing
have used it as a dark cloth for 29 years ..
sheet of 11x14 waxed paper and a rectangle of foam core
used as ground glass and a camera back for a century 10A ( used for around 9 years )
and a sheet of ohp film from the copy shop i purchased for
15¢ with a grid copied on it purchased in 1989 ( cheaper than pencil lead, or etched glass )