----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 5:52 PM Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Lens Cap and centering Aid > At 08:38 PM 2/12/05 -0500, Austin Franklin wrote: > >>I didn't say it didn't "work", I only questioned the claim >>that this >>specific function was the intention of mirroring the cap. >>Again, how many >>people take pictures of just themselves and need such a >>device? I actually >>take quite a few pictures of my self, and don't use any >>such "aids". > > Austin > > As it seems, someone developed this method after F&H had > introduced the > shiny lens cap, and so, F&H adopted this as a proven > method for success. I > do not believe that anyone is suggesting that F&H thought > this one up > before adopting the shiny lens cap. > > I do not see how this was supposed to work, in any event. > If you put the > lens cap over the viewing lens, the second cap will fall > over the taking > lens. And, if you glue it up onto the first cap, it has a > black surface. > > So, the entire suggestion appears most bogus. Can someone > enlighten me on > just what I am missing? > > Marc > > > > msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx=20 The technique is to take the cap off and rotate the finder cap a third turn to the next bayonette position. The cap is left unfolded, the taking lens cap sticks out at the side. I suspect some clever person at Rollei discovered this by putting the cap on wrong and thought "what a neat trick" (in German of course). Maybe Claus Prochnow actually knows. I suspect the frosted finish was introduced for any or all of three reasons: 1, someone throught it looked better; 2, it was cheaper (is it?); 3, it is less vulnerable to showing scratches. In any case, it is a neat trick regardless of how unintentional it may be. You can pretend you are Marlene Dietrich, who always had a large mirror next to the camera so she could see herself. --- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx