Teaching Pinhole Photography to 7th Graders

WOW! I wish to thank every one who responded to our request, both on and off
the list.

Based on the info we recieved, Ilford Multigrade RC paper is the easest to
work with. Based on an atricle in View Camera (Sept/Oct 2000), a film
developer (looks like Ilford D-11 is a creaper alt. to D76) is best for
controlling contrast.

The various construction ideas are great! I had gotten into a rut using
premade shoe boxes, etc. that were easy for 3rd graders to work with.

One question... it has also been sugested that a yellow or green filter can
be used to drop the contrast further. I have used yellow, green, and
yellowgreen filters with regular 35mm cameras and tmax400. I understand that
with multigrade papers, green light is used for low contrast and blue light
is used for high contrast development. Why use the yellow filter (any reason
other than the additional light loss through a green filter)? Is there a
site for "BW Filters, 1001"?

Our thanks again for all the helpfull information!
Beau and Jann

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Received on Sun Mar 17 13:37:01 2002