Re: Re: new to this list

Thanks a bunch Guillermo!

--Jeremiah

In a message dated 9/18/01 5:54:47 PM, penate@home.com writes:

>Most people start shooting B&W paper, but there are times when you would
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>like to have the luxury of making lots of exposures. Having lots of shoe
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>boxes loaded with paper is a way, having pinhole cameras that take film
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>(rolls: 35mm or 120, or even sheet film 4x5, 8x10, etc) is a less "bulky"
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>one!. BTW, film holders for 4x5 and above also take B&W of the corresponding
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>sizes. Making your own film winding mechanism is not feasible for many
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>us, so usually we recur to modify cameras. These are some I have modified
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>(and that still have with me!):
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>A disposable 35mm plastic camera made to be a 14mm pinhole camera, shutter
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>is a piece of electric tape:
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>http://members.home.com/penate/cameras/14f.jpg
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>A 35mm format camera bought for a few bucks ($3.50 US I think) and converted
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>to a pinhole camera, shutter is a piece of foam:
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>http://members.home.com/penate/cameras/12.jpg
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>My latest one, just finished it yesterday!, an Agfa 6x6 folder purchased
>at
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>eBay for $9 converted to a 36mm pinhole camera, I still use the shutter
>that
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>came with the camera, but removed some of the front stuff to avoid
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>vignetting.
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>http://members.home.com/penate/cameras/6x6.jpg
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>Finally, this is a Pinhole Nikon bodycap I made by drilling a hole and
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>taping a pinhole at the back of it, I use that with my Nikon camera
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>(obviously).
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>http://members.home.com/penate/bcap_files/cap.jpg
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>> I guess that is another way to
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>> do it. I'm sort of clueless as to make one.
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>Hope the above give you some ideas.
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>> The words you guys use are
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>> somewhat unfamiliar to me like pinhole/zone photography .
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>You know what pinhole is. Zone Plate photography is a "relative" to pinhole
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>photography, you can read an explanation about it here:
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>http://members.home.com/penate/pinhole.html (look for the article at the
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>bottom of the page. There is also a link to some examples of zoneplate
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>images.
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>> I'm assuming that 4x5 is a large format camera? How do you make a good
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>> pinhole camera? What do you guys use?
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>Yes 4x5 refers to large format cameras, it is relatively easy, though,
>to
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>construct a camera that uses 4x5 film holders, some of the list members
>have
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>done it. I made one that takes 8x10 film holders. Here is a picture as
>seen
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>fron the rear:
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>http://members.home.com/penate/camera/camera.JPG
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>As far as "how to make a good pinhole camera", you'll have to define what
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>"good" is for you, first.
Received on Thu Sep 20 00:47:45 2001