Focusing is via a ground glass screen with a central split-image rangefinder.
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Focussing of these plate cameras was by the use of a ground glass screen at the point of focus.
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The "'view camera "'is a ground glass screen directly at the plane of the film.
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These cameras were used at waist level; the ground glass screen was viewed directly, using a large hood to keep out extraneous light.
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By the late 1700s, small, easily portable box-form units equipped with a simple lens, an internal mirror, and a ground glass screen had become popular among affluent amateurs for making sketches of landscapes and architecture.
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For this, the slit is opened very wide and a diffuse, attenuated survey illumination is produced by inserting a ground glass screen or diffuser in the illuminating path . " Wide beam " illumination is the only type that has the light source set wide open.
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Together with 1 : 1 focusing ( via a ground glass screen mounted at the rear in the film plane position ), this permits landscape photography with an extremely large depth of field & mdash; from closest foreground to the far horizon & mdash; to be achieved.
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Georgiou's early work was in black-and-white but for " Fault Lines " and subsequent work he moved to colour, using a compact camera with an articulated ground glass screen of a twin-lens reflex camera; this is because he believes it less intimidating for the people photographed than a camera held to the eye.