getting somewhere (and a new question)

First, a warm thank to everybody. With your help I'm getting somewhere
with this pinhole business, and getting results that are more and more
better. Last evening I shot a picture from a rapid and as I was under a
bridge and light conditions were not the best, approximating the effect
of #0 filter, I came up to one hour exposure (which turned out to be bit
too long). But as the exposure was so long, there's a light leak from
the filmholder. Now the question is: is it better to remove the slider
totally or leave it in the open position in the filmholder? The leak has
come from the opening, it's not too bad (clone tools are invented), but
the white edge of the negative has two dark dots from which two dark,
but narrower stripes go diagonally over the entire negative. As I have
never actually used large-size films, there are many things I need to
ask or explore.
Using low-contrast filter is now more than enough, so I don't have that
hurry to move to use film. I even got some clouds visible :-)
Main thing I'm pleased with using filter is, that the sky doesn't look
totally burnt. Eg. trees seen against the sky have a distinct contour,
not like without the filter when smaller branches just disappeared.
And yesterday pinhole-camera showed it's superiority. I had a SLR and a
digital camera too with me, but both run out of batteries, but with
pinhole-cam, no problem :-)

thanks

-matti
mjkoskin@koti.soon.fi
Received on Tue Apr 16 07:19:10 2002