I'm no photog, but I just gotta know

On which side of the ground glass is an image focused onto- The side facing
the cameras innards or the side facing my stupid mug?

Curious George spake thus:

On which side of the ground glass is an image focused onto- The side facing
the cameras innards or the side facing my stupid mug?

Innards. Focused image don't wanna see your (or our) ugly mug.

The ground side faces the lens.

Easy way to remember (maybe) is that the inside of the glass, the ground
side, is in the same exact place the film will be when you load it.


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David Nebenzahl wrote:

Curious George spake thus:

On which side of the ground glass is an image focused onto- The side
facing the cameras innards or the side facing my stupid mug?

Innards. Focused image don't wanna see your (or our) ugly mug.

The ground side faces the lens.

Easy way to remember (maybe) is that the inside of the glass, the ground
side, is in the same exact place the film will be when you load it.



Actually it will form an image faced either way and it depends on the
camera design which way it faces. Usually it's towards the lens but not
always. It's been a long time but I think my super graphic has the ground
side facing outwards with the fresnel lens behind it.
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"Curious George" wrote:

On which side of the ground glass is an image focused onto- The side facing
the cameras innards or the side facing my stupid mug?

Side facing the camera's innards. Better known as the focal plane.
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"Curious George" wrote in message
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On which side of the ground glass is an image focused onto- The side
facing
the cameras innards or the side facing my stupid mug?

Inside to middle of the glass. You LF people know that you can focus an
aerial image on either side, right?

"Curious George" wrote in message
On which side of the ground glass is an image focused onto- The side
facing the cameras innards or the side facing my stupid mug?

It depends on the camera. Some face the frosted side to the lens, some
away.

What sort of camera is it?

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Nicholas O. Lindan spake thus:

"Curious George" wrote in message

On which side of the ground glass is an image focused onto- The
side facing the cameras innards or the side facing my stupid mug?

It depends on the camera. Some face the frosted side to the lens, some
away.

So what cameras use this backwards arrangement (ground side facing out)?
I'm assuming that it's easier to design a camera which uses the glass
the "right way" (facing lens), as one needn't take the thickness of the
glass into account, just make sure the inside of the glass is at the
same place as the film when the holder is inserted.


--
Second, Scientologists are like computers trying to run an emulation
of another computer. It can be done, but the performance is awful.
Scientologists are trying to run a bad copy of LRH.

- Keith Henson, from alt.religion.scientology

"David Nebenzahl" wrote in message
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So what cameras use this backwards arrangement (ground side facing out)?

None.

"David Nebenzahl" wrote in message
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Nicholas O. Lindan spake thus:

"Curious George" wrote in message

On which side of the ground glass is an image focused onto- The
side facing the cameras innards or the side facing my stupid mug?

It depends on the camera. Some face the frosted side to the lens, some
away.

So what cameras use this backwards arrangement (ground side facing out)?
I'm assuming that it's easier to design a camera which uses the glass
the "right way" (facing lens), as one needn't take the thickness of the
glass into account, just make sure the inside of the glass is at the
same place as the film when the holder is inserted.


If, hypothetically, I was designing such a beast I wouldn't rely on the
glass thickness for register: I'd just design the GG holder so that the
glass was fitted from the other side. ie. the reference surface for the
screen would still be the side was that was ground, and that, whichever side
it was, would be the side that was referenced to the film plane.



Peter

Bandicoot spake thus:

"David Nebenzahl" wrote in message
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Nicholas O. Lindan spake thus:

"Curious George" wrote in message

On which side of the ground glass is an image focused onto- The
side facing the cameras innards or the side facing my stupid
mug?

It depends on the camera. Some face the frosted side to the lens,
some away.

So what cameras use this backwards arrangement (ground side facing
out)? I'm assuming that it's easier to design a camera which uses
the glass the "right way" (facing lens), as one needn't take the
thickness of the glass into account, just make sure the inside of
the glass is at the same place as the film when the holder is
inserted.

If, hypothetically, I was designing such a beast I wouldn't rely on the
glass thickness for register: I'd just design the GG holder so that the
glass was fitted from the other side. ie. the reference surface for the
screen would still be the side was that was ground, and that, whichever side
it was, would be the side that was referenced to the film plane.

Well, OK; that would work, but it raises the question: *why* would
anyone make a camera that way? Just to be ornery?


--
Second, Scientologists are like computers trying to run an emulation
of another computer. It can be done, but the performance is awful.
Scientologists are trying to run a bad copy of LRH.

- Keith Henson, from alt.religion.scientology