Pull out the darkslide entirely?

[lenser]

In the studio, the slide is out.

Outdoors, it is flipped and in just enough to stay. Two reasons: One is to insure that there will be no possible light leak from that end (even if I flip the back away from the sun), and second is BECAUSE of the wind.

If the wind is a gale, forget it, but if it is intermittent or somewhat gusting, the extreme flexibility of the slide is a wind indicator and tells me when the wind has stopped long enough so I can make any exposures longer than 1/125th with more assurance of a steady camera.

[cjbroadbent]

Out, and sitting on the bellows. I always thought the light-trap was put in jeopardy by a flapping dark-slide.
Maybe I've wasted years like Mergendieler with his crumbs.

[BetterSense]

One is to insure that there will be no possible light leak from that end

I have found that leaving the darkslide in partway is MORE likely to cause light leaks than otherwise.

[rdenney]

The only dark slide I don't pull out all the way is the one on the Fujiroid PA-45, which they explicitly instruct should not be fully removed (and they provide appropriate markings).

Rick "who has suffered a range of light leaks but never though a slide trap" Denney

[Richard Wasserman]

I always thought the dark-slide is supposed to be used to shade the lens.

I love multi-purpose tools...

[Noah A]

The only dark slide I don't pull out all the way is the one on the Fujiroid PA-45, which they explicitly instruct should not be fully removed (and they provide appropriate markings).

Rick "who has suffered a range of light leaks but never though a slide trap" Denney

Oops. Guess I should have read the manual as I've been pulling it out entirely. Thanks for the heads-up.

[BrianShaw]

Out

[MIke Sherck]

I always thought the dark-slide is supposed to be used to shade the lens.

I love multi-purpose tools...

You're implying that it isn't?

Mike

[Leigh]

Allllllll the way out.

- Leigh

[Eric Woodbury]

Out. It is, after all, the lens shade.