RE: [OM] shades

[Winsor Crosby]

>  > Bill Pearce [mailto:bspearce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> >  Yup, and saves plastic, too! To be ideally effective, shade should be
> >  rectangular, to match the frame.
> Actually, along Bill's line, I have read somewhere (another internet
> list?) that rectangular is indeed the perfect shape for a lens
> hood (on a prime?), but that they aren't made that way as they
> then don't reverse real well onto the lens for easy storage.
>
> This could be totally wrong...but I can't imagine something I
> read from the internet being inaccurage <vbg>
>
> Cheers
> Marc
> Sydney, Oz
You then need to redesign the end of the lens barrel so that the
rectangular shade only goes onto it in the correct position matching
the rectangular film format. Then things can get real fiddly
attaching and detaching unless the design is brilliant.
--
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California

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