everything old is new again

rs170a wrote on 5/30/2012, 7:43 PM

Some of you might remember the "silk stocking behind the lens" trick.
It's still being done and quite well, I might add.
Diffusion for the Digital Age, Part 2

Mike

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ushere wrote on 5/30/2012, 9:03 PM

ah... stockings and suspenders.... i remember them well

oh, lenses too ;-)

Dan Sherman wrote on 5/30/2012, 9:31 PM

Or Vaseline on an old Marconi Mark V1 lens to achieve that "dream" look!

rmack350 wrote on 5/31/2012, 7:59 PM

I used to work with a guy who did this all the time and had a collection of little prebuilt nets he could slip onto lenses. And that led another DP to build and sell a product for this purpose (or maybe it was the other way around).

http://lightbreak.com/iring_article.php

Rob