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From: "G.Penate" <penate@home.com>
To: <pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 6:55 PM
> > Paper or film won't bend around a tight sphere, only a cylinder.
Some months ago, I tried to build a small spherical film plane camera around
a tennis -ball basis. I had cut a tennis ball in 2 halves, took one of these
and built a "pinhole lensboard" which I adapted on the half ball.
I did many tries to fix adequately photo paper (single weight) and film in
this spherical back but I never succeeded to get a regular surface : it is
too difficult to bend equally such a surface in all directions : I got
scratches, wrinkles, tears, everything except a plain surface, and though my
patience goes far (as most pinholers), I finally gave the ball tennis to ...
my grey parrot to play with.
Jean
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---- Jean Daubas, auteur-photographe Rue de Bourg-Sec 25440 LIESLE France tél. 03 81 57 50 13 / 06 81 53 12 89 jean.daubas@freesbee.frReceived on Fri Mar 2 05:35:14 2001
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