Re: "Pinhole" on film gemery2@hotmail.com GORDY EMERY

From: Gordy Emery <gemery2_at_domain.name.suppressed>
Date: Fri 05 Apr 2002 - 10:02:31 PST

If I could, I would like one.
gemery2@hotmail.com

>From: "Christoph Wirsing" <chwirsing@web.de>
>Reply-To: pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com
>To: <pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com>
>Subject: [pinhole-discussion] "Pinhole" on film
>Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 10:32:22 +0200
>
>A while ago somebody asked about pin"holes" exposed on film.
>I have been thinking about this before, but never took the time to try it.
>Now I had to do a print film and used the border of the page for some
>tests.
>I only exposed some polaroid pictures until now, so I am not sure if the
>sharpness actually equals a real hole.
>But as far as I can tell from the first tests, it seems to work quite well.
>
>The good thing about this technique is
>a) it is very easy to make a perfectly clean hole of exact size
>b) it is the only way to make holes of other shape, like stars (if you
>don't
>have a laser)
>
>The way to do it:
>Use a vector graphics program (like corel draw and many others).
>Draw a black square of 25*25 cm.
>Put a white shape in the center of the square, using a size of 1 mm. (I
>used
>one dot and two different stars from the "wingdings" font)
>Combine the two objects and reduce the whole thing to 2.5*2.5 cm.
>This way you can be sure that the "hole" will be 0.1cm .
>(If you need other sizes, it should be not too difficult to calculate)
>Then you can duplicate the object as often as the size of the page allows
>it.
>Save it as print file and send it to your service bureau.
>
>Unfortunately, I don't have much time at the moment for playing around with
>them, but if somebody else would like to try it:
>I have made enough "filmholes", so that the first 10 people who send me
>their snail-address can get a set of them.
>
>I would like to see the results!
>
>Christoph
>
>PS: some of my pinhole photographs can be seen on www.chwirsing.de (made
>with a zero2000, not the "filmholes" yet)
>
>
>
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