Anyone use a hat instead of or as well as a lens hood/shade? or is it just me?
Mine's wide brimmed and made of straw.
Anyone use a hat instead of or as well as a lens hood/shade? or is it just me?
Mine's wide brimmed and made of straw.
I'd say it was just you, but I know that wouldn't be the truth. So let me say... not me.
I use a hat because I have never been willing to shell out enough money to buy a lens shade. A lens shade would be better but then it would also make changing lenses more of an ordeal.
A black felt hat I hope.
Sure, a hat, a film holder slide...
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
I might use a hat.........as the shutter, not a shade.
I have a Tilley. It works great as both a head-shade as well as a lens-shade.
Mike
Politically, aerodynamically, and fashionably incorrect.
I use a brown Pendleton fedora. I find it gives a better bite in the shadows with more smooth highlight gradations that a Tilley.
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
--A=B by Petkovšek et. al.
Hats, dark slides, hands, whatever, are fine for keeping direct sunlight from striking the lens. They're not so fine when the light is diffuse. For that you need a compendium shade.
Brian Ellis
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you do criticize them you'll be
a mile away and you'll have their shoes.
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