I used to have one of these, probably the Spiratone version. Used on the front of a 135mm lens, I always had trouble lining up the target. The combination of a 90° side view and a mirror-image of the scene would have me wildly swinging the camera about to try and get centered, and then focused, on anything. I soon decided that a more unobtrusive approach to street or beach photography was to quietly point my camera at the desired subject and take the picture without a lot of fuss. But it was a fun gadget.
stan On May 23, 2013, at 2:36 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: > Pentax actually made and marketed one of those for the Spotmatic and Early K > mount cameras. It was considerably more expensive than the Spiratone version. > > On 5/23/2013 11:11 AM, George Sinos wrote: >> I remember a long time ago there was a company called Spiratone that >> advertised in the back of photography magazines. They usually had >> several pages of adds and had all types of odd stuff for your camera. >> >> I haven't seen one of these since way back then, but I got a good >> laugh when I saw it today. >> >> <http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/candid-photography-spy-lens/> >> >> GS >> >> George Sinos >> -------------------- >> www.GeorgesPhotos.net >> www.GeorgeSinos.com >> > > > -- > There are two kinds of computer users those who've experienced a hard drive > failure, and those that will. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
