Re: RE: Making pinholes without a darkroom?

Hi Malin,

If you're good with building skills, you could build a camera-darkroom box similar to that which some street portrait photographers still use in Latin America.

Basically, they shoot your portrait on paper (lens camera part of the box), then develop the paper in the darkroom part of the box where small trays are filled with photo chemistry.

Once the paper negative is developped (the photographer checks through a viewer with red inactinic protection), it is sandwiched to an unexposed paper positive. The photographer opens the box to sun light (paper negative on top) to expose the positive. Once exposed, the paper positive is processed, quickly rinced, dried and handed out.

There are fewer and fewer of these photographers, but a friend met one in Mexico City a few years ago and shot his picture with a 4x5 pinhole on chrome film. A beautiful picture.

Best,

Guy

>
> De: Malin Fabbri <altprints@yahoo.co.uk>
> Date: 2004/06/16 mer. AM 05:38:55 GMT-04:00
> À: pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org
> Objet: RE: [pinhole-discussion] Making pinholes without a darkroom?
>
> Hi All!
> Thanks for all your excellent suggestions... all of them very useful.
> The pinhole I had in mind is more a shoebox pinhole than an advanced
> one with film loading capabilities.
> The polaroid suggestions may be a good alternative... I guess I
> somehow would have to fit a polaroid backing to the camera? Does
> anyone have any practical suggestions on how to do this? Where to get
> the polaroid backing, which one to get? But then I end up with the
> polaroid snapshot look on the photographs, right?
> The answer I was hoping to get was some handmade way of making the
> image, which is why I was onto the Cyanotype idea, but you're right,
> the exposure time would probably be around a month (Imagine the look
> of that image!!!). :-)
> I guess making an instant negative in the pinhole camera would work
> and then I could go on to making a cyanotype afterwards. Ric, you
> mentioned a polaroid negative film that doesn't need developing. Any
> more details? The Ortho 8x10 film also sounds like a good
> alternative... not too much of a darkroom mess going on there...
> Kate... could you expand on the P.O.P. in the camera? How would this
> work?
> All your sharing of experiences are appreciated, I haven't
> experiemented that much with pinholes, (I guess I'm about to start!).
> All the best!
> Malin
>
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