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- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Path: sparky!uunet!telebit!phr
- From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
- Subject: Re: candid photo lens? is there such a thing?
- In-Reply-To: supplies@sklib.usask.ca's message of Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:19:05 GMT
- Message-ID: <PHR.92Nov16174005@napa.telebit.com>
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- Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
- References: <16NOV92.20190595@sklib.usask.ca>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:40:05
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- You can buy 45 degree mirror gizmos that screw on to the front of your
- lens at some camera stores. One is called "Squintar". Cost was in
- the $30 range. I think Ritz Camera has them. Cambridge Camera,
- subject of many flames in the mail-order guide, advertises them, but
- I'd be very reluctant to order anything from them through the mail.
-
- These things are kind of big and clunky and the ones I've seen need a
- Series 7 filter adapter. You only want to mount it on a medium-to-big
- tele lens (so that with the thing attached, it looks like a big tele).
- You also want to use it from a reasonable distance, since the subject
- is more likely to notice it from close up.
-
- You may be better off rigging a totally hidden camera.
-