Originally posted by kcobain1992 Not sure if they are "worth your while", but optical technology hasn't evolved that much since the 60s, except for the coatings. So get proper hoods and use them!
Yeah, hoods. Sadly we don't have a camera store here anymore. It's box store or nothing. We used to have a classic, old fashioned camera store that stocked everything. The owner knew his stuff. Then he when to the big dark room in the sky and the place closed.
I am not an expert camera user, but I'm fascinated by composition. I collect tintypes and dags and have a hundred or more, most mundane, but some astounding. The attached portrait isn't very special until you figure that it was taken in 1878. It is of John Middleton, btw: one of Billy the Kid's gang.