Re: "Pinhole" on film

hallo christoph,
das mit der snail-mail muß ich noch nachholen:
Ingo Günther
Neisser Str. 7
26127 Oldenburg
Gruß, Ingo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christoph Wirsing" <chwirsing@web.de>
To: <pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 10:32 AM
Subject: [pinhole-discussion] "Pinhole" on film

> 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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Received on Fri Apr 5 14:55:49 2002