Originally posted by texandrews Hoping that the next FF or 645 camera has this option. I've had to tape and drape in some shots due to reflections---I'd still have to, but maybe not quite so much...
Jet black camera would change the light falling on the subject if Jet black camera shape doesn't emit the same light as in absence of camera and photographer, a phenomenon also known as the observer effect (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics)).
If you want to photograph a subject as the subject is when you are not there, you need to paint the camera and yourself with the same color as the surroundings (which could be funny).
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Originally posted by JPT I guess you wouldn't have been in the market for this if they had decided to put it into production then.
He would have bought the camera incognito, also known as the furtive customer problem.