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- From: prodger@leland.Stanford.EDU (phillip prodger)
- Subject: Re: candid photo lens? is there such a thing?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.182014.10522@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <16NOV92.20190595@sklib.usask.ca> <raju.721953745@st-lina>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 18:20:14 GMT
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- Paul Strand managed to achieve the 'candid' effect you describe by
- mounting a prism on the end of a normal lens. His famous photo of
- a "blind" woman peeking at a passerby (and many of his NY street photos)
- was made in this way.
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- I have found that another interesting way of doing this is with a
- perspective correcting lens.
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- Alternatively, you can try a different viewer such as a top-mounted
- focusing screen. As long as you aren't looking directly through the
- lens at the subject, people don't tend to react - it looks as though
- you are inspecting your camera, not them.
-
- People are far more sensitive to the direction of your eye than the direction
- of your lens. I guess the public-at-large is conditioned to associate
- photography with a straight TLR or P&S set up.
-