Hello Mike,
The most basic developing tank / pinhole camera is the 35 mm film canister in which 35
mm film is sold!
It's the cheapest one, too and by using them, you just help limiting the unnecessary
waste of materials on our planet...
Dare I write that the clear transparent ones are not really adapted for pinhole
photography :-)),
Though, I use them as a pedagogical help for explaining the relation between the curved
film plane image obtained in my black canisters and our interpretative vision : when I've
developed in the camera my paper or piece of film, I may display it inside a clear
canister exactly with the same curvature so that viewers see a straight perspective
instead of the normally obtained curved image.
These "doubles" (black canister + clear one) make a nice, though small, presentation of a
"all-in-one" system going from unexposed film to making of a picture, developing and
displaying the final print or negative...
Another advantage is that you may bring with you plenty of these small boxes in your
pockets (which use not so much developing chemicals, with easy agitation procedure for
lazy people!).
My last thought is that if you find the size of image obtained in a canister too small,
there is no difficulty to enlarge it (obvious if you used film, and easy if you used
unwritten photo paper)
Hope it helps !
Happy pinholing
Jean
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Jean Daubas, auteur-photographe
16 rue de Bourg-sec
25440 LIESLE France
03 81 57 50 13 ou 06 81 53 12 89
j.daubas.photo@free.fr
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Rawling" <pin_tim@hotmail.com>
To: <pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com>
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:28 AM
Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] paper negative tricks
> Hi Mike,
>
> A few years ago I made a camera out of an old 8x10 cibachrome developing
> tank that I had. I sealed the pinhole with a red glass filter and developed
> the images in the camera.
>
> The other cool thing about having a sealed pinhole camera is that you can
> fill the camera with water before you expose the image to increase the field
> of view (due to the diffraction of light at the air/water interface) and you
> can also shoot underwater with it (although I found the results of this to
> be VERY unpredictable).
>
> Give it a try.
>
> Cheers,
> Tim
>
> >Ever hear of anyone building a developing tank, and adding a pinhole on
> >the dry side of the tube? You would be limited to one film per tank, so
> >you would probably want to build several. Any other potential problems?
> >(I have limited pinhole experience- of the pinhole in the body cap type.)
> >--
> >
> >
> >"Gravity is a harsh mistress"
> > The Tick- 1996
> >
> >Mike Beacom
> >
>
>
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Received on Mon Apr 15 05:33:15 2002
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