Try a bellows lens shade like Ambico. I bought a used one on eBay a year
ago for ~$30 Discussion, see:
http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=000H0c
http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001ZWa
Tom
On Friday, January 11, 2002 at 21:13, Wayne Culberson
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "[OM] cropping and cheap wide angle" saying:
> > Doesn't anybody crop and make prints the shape of the image of
> interest
> > > > anymore?
>
> As someone has pointed out here, cropping is not really an option if
> taking 35mm slides, which is a lot my photography. In thinking about
> this today, this is starting to influence me towards a wide angle zoom,
> like the Vivitar 19-35, rather than single focal length very wide angle.
> I'm trying to balance the value of good composition against the value
> of resolution, etc.
> The thing that worries me is lens flare. I seem to get flare quite
> often with mid range zooms versus almost never with mid range primes.
> Thanks to those who have offered advice. I see Cameta has put one of
> their two touch wide zooms on ebay for $130. Have they been listening in
> on us today? :-)
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