Re: getting somewhere (and a new question)

I find that if you leave the dark slide in, it tends to wobble or catch the
breeze and move the camera. I pull it out and then throw my jacket or a
black plastic bag over the back of the camera. that's what dark cloths are
for in large format lens photography.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matti Koskinen" <mjkoskin@koti.soon.fi>
To: <pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 6:21 AM
Subject: [pinhole-discussion] 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
>
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Received on Tue Apr 16 20:31:54 2002