fingers of light

I wish to thank every person who gave some attention to my dwarf picture, and
their nice comment.
I promise to put on line some photos and descriptions of my cameras on an html
page on my site.

some comments brought me to some considerations about sharpness in pinhole
photography. In the lensphoto area, sharpness is essential, it is what gives the
price of a lens. You may have blur by the use of a soft focus filter or lens to
get an atmospheric image but even in this case your image has to be sharp
whatever the contrast of the image is (lo key, hi key are two contrasts possible
of a lens image).
Sharpness in pinhole photography is not the first aim, you wish to get closer to
YOUR eye's vision (the most precise description of what you see), which is not
as sharp as a lensphoto, which can't cover all of a lanscape at a glance for
exemple. Eye's vision is sharp only at one point : what you're looking at - very
small.
What is more difficult to get in pinhole photography is contrast. A good
exposure gives good contrast as a good film development gives good contrast and
you ahve only one contrast (no lo key or hi key). Am I wrong when I think that
good contrast gives more sharpness to a photo? and that the atmospheric feel of
a pinhole photography is due to a lack of contrast as much as a bad relation
between focal length and diameter of the hole? I think there is a border between
sharpness and contrast so thin that it is there that all the magic of pinhole
works to help us to create those "pictorialist" images : painted by fingers of
light.

Jean-Louis (Montauban - France)

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