Interesting thread.
I don't seem to be able to get away from sharpness and detail. My main
camera, handmade, taking 4 x 5 in a grafmatic holder, produces images
that are pretty sharp and convey a lot of detail, yet the images are
unmistakably pinhole. I made a Canon AE1 body cap pinhole for WPPD,
and the images it produces, too, are sharp, so sharp that except for the
blur from handheld/long exposures, you wouldn't necessarily suspect that
they're even pinhole images. *That* I'm disappointed in.
In both cases, I didn't do much in the way of calculation, I just
needled my way through the brass shim stock, spent a fair amount of time
cleaning up my work with fine grit emery paper, and started shooting
(and taking notes).
With the body cap pinhole, I am thinking that I need to get the hole
significantly closer to the film plane; I don't get any vignetting at all,
and I think that would give me more of the look I want from this setup.
--Eric
Received on Wed May 8 14:15:32 2002
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