Julian,
Take a look at http://www.pinhole.com/discussion/upload/images/pinlady.jpg
(a photo by Claudia Smith). This is an example of just how sharp a pinhole
image can be. (I think this was from a 6x6 negative.) If your negatives are
not this sharp there is room for improfement.
Mike Vande Bunt
clothier wrote:
> I am however dissapointed with the massive degree of "softness" the my 6x9
> format negs have when printed. I've tried to use the optimum hole size
> formula and have gone to a fair bit of trouble to make "clean" holes etc.
> So, it occurs to me that maybr the softness is always going to be that much
> and that is why many of you will be using large format paper negs and
> contact printing because the softness degree is then spread over a whole
> picture rather than of a small neg. Can someone out there who knows their
> stuff confirm this for me or point me in a better direction.
Received on Tue Oct 3 08:35:54 2000
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