Old Timey Camera

[USMC88-93]

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It's kind of difficult to explain the focusing, but you'd understand it immediately if you saw it. I have two little boxes that I put in the back of the camera. The first doesn't have a back and contains a piece of glass sprayed with a frosty spray paint from a craft store. When you have that in the camera, and you have the lens cap off, the light shines back through the camera and onto that piece of glass. And the frosty coating captures the light, allowing you to see the image coming through the lens. The back of the camera moves in and out which allows you to focus.

Understood completely effectively a removable viewfinder. I miss the days when I had access to an old 8 x 10 negative bellows camera. Crazy sized prints and incredible detail.. Too bad the only print I have left is one of my teen age face pimples freckles bad hair and all (I never show it at home due to the embarrassment of how I looked). What kind of depth of field is possible (Lincoln Gettysburg prints come to mind)