RE: ilford

If you are just starting I can help. I have been doing pinhole photography
for about 3 months now and I have learned a lot. I have built 4 cameras so
far. One out of a oatmeal can, a Pringles can ( talk about warped), a balsa
wood camera, and now out of a black foam board. The first three camera, I
had problems with light leaks and I had no idea about how long of an
exposure should I make. I was also using paper negatives and this accounted
for very long exposure times and I did not like this. Frustrated I decided
to try and build one with the optimum settings. I found this web site
that really helped. http://mrpinhole.no-ip.org/index.php
<http://mrpinhole.no-ip.org/index.php> My fourth camera I built this out a
black foam board and a 4x5 camera back that I bought for 5 bucks. As far as
the pinhole I use a # 16 beading needle and a empty coke can. Find out
everything you can about how to make pinholes. What I decided to do is
make a camera with the optimum settings and then change the camera to
reflect your style you want.
 
As far as the dark room. This is what I use on a tight budget.
 
Room
I convert the bathroom into a dark room and use tape to fix the light leaks.

 
Film
Last Friday someone told me about this film.
http://www.theeconozone.com/econozone/xxx4.html
<http://www.theeconozone.com/econozone/xxx4.html> I have to tried it yet
but later I will. Right now I'm shooting 4x5 TMAX 400. I do not like this
film because I'm not getting the high contrast. Some people might love it
but I'm not getting the results, plus its very expensive compared to ortho
litho film and the chemical are cheap.
 
Developing trays.
I use those sandwich containers with the lids. I have one for the film
developer and the other for fixer and one for water. I use the lids
because it cuts down on the fumes because I do not have the best ventilation
system.
 
Contact prints.
I bought a 35mm enlarge so I can make contact sheets of the 4x5 negatives.
The nice thing about 4x5 is that you can make a contact print from this and
decide it you like the results. As far as a dark room light I bought a small
safe light for about 12.00 bucks.
 
Hope this helps.
Travis

[ROBERTSON,TRAVIS J] -----Original Message-----
From: Kelcannj@aol.com [mailto:Kelcannj@aol.com]
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 7:11 PM
To: pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com
Subject: [pinhole-discussion] ilford

Okay now that I'm finally building a darkroom I can hopefully start
understanding more about the whole pinhole process and see more eye to eye
with it rather than just read the discussion e-mails and try to figure out
what goes where in all that lingo I'm not aware of yet. I'm very excited for
this I have so many ideas for pinhole and can't wait to start though I have
a question (and probibly many questions to come) as to what kind or brand of
developer, stop bath, and fixer I should use in order to get the best
results with ilford paper?

kelseyj
Received on Mon Sep 9 09:33:51 2002