RE: Making pinholes without a darkroom?

I like it... I've used the film canisters like that but not coffee cans.
Now I know how to make it light & I presume water tight....
good idea.. thanks
andy

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Subject: RE: [pinhole-discussion] Making pinholes without a darkroom?

Malin -

One of my favorite pinhole cameras is a coffee can (I use a sheet of the
plastic that photographic paper comes in to cover the can, then place
the plastic top onto that, which makes it light-tight). It fits a sheet
of 4X5 in it very nicely and takes wonderfully wide images. If you are
truly strapped for space but do have a bathroom you can make
light-tight, you could use the can itself to develop the film. Simply
pour developer into the can, close it up, and roll it back and forth.
When done, pour the spent developer into the toilet, pour in stop, and
continue, finally doing the same with the fixer. This is how I develop
from the 35mm film cannister I turned into a pinhole camera.

Ortho film is no less messy than "regular" film (same development
process), but can be used under darkroom lighting, so if you have
problems working in the dark then that might be an alternative. With a
bit of testing, you might find its contrast to be better in terms of
printing cyanotype, though it may not render the scene as well.

Cheers -

george

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 --- On Wed 06/16, Malin Fabbri < altprints@yahoo.co.uk > wrote:
From: Malin Fabbri [mailto: altprints@yahoo.co.uk]
To: pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 02:38:55 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: RE: [pinhole-discussion] Making pinholes without a darkroom?

Hi All!<br>Thanks for all your excellent suggestions... all of them very
useful.<br>The pinhole I had in mind is more a shoebox pinhole than an
advanced<br>one with film loading capabilities.<br>The polaroid
suggestions may be a good alternative... I guess I<br>somehow would have
to fit a polaroid backing to the camera? Does<br>anyone have any
practical suggestions on how to do this? Where to get<br>the polaroid
backing, which one to get? But then I end up with the<br>polaroid
snapshot look on the photographs, right?<br>The answer I was hoping to
get was some handmade way of making the<br>image, which is why I was
onto the Cyanotype idea, but you're right,<br>the exposure time would
probably be around a month (Imagine the look<br>of that image!!!).
:-)<br>I guess making an instant negative in the pinhole camera would
work<br>and then I could go on to making a cyanotype afterwards. Ric,
you<br>mentioned a polaroid negative film that doesn't need developing.
Any<br>more details?!
 The Ortho 8x10 film also sounds like a good<br>alternative... not too
much of a darkroom mess going on there...<br>Kate... could you expand on
the P.O.P. in the camera? How would this<br>work?<br>All your sharing of
experiences are appreciated, I haven't<br>experiemented that much with
pinholes, (I guess I'm about to start!).<br>All the
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