Re: pinhole-discussion-digest V1 #78

RE: [pinhole-discussion] Making pinholes without a darkroom?
       Please add the following to suggestions from George Smyth and Peter
Wiklund: buy an inexpensive changing bag to load, unload a pinhole's film, and
then load film canisters for processing. This would work for 35mm, medium
format, and at least for loading and unloading larger pinhole cameras that use
photo paper as negatives. I bought my changing bag to shoot with infrared film, as
it requires loading and unloading in total darkness. What's more, location
shoots can be far from labs and darkrooms, so I still keep my changing bag in
the car trunk.
      Although it does not provide room to print, this multipurpose, portable
pouch is a darkroom alternative when encountering mechanical issues re film
and sensitized paper.
      To reduce "blind fumbling" in a changing bag, any pinhole camera can be
adapted to provide tactile landmarks for film and pinhole top alignment.
Small clothing buttons or even smaller rubber disks or "feet"--like ones that
stabilize various electronic devices--can be superglued to the pinhole's exterior
to approximate film or paper negative placement in the pinhole's interior
while in the changing bag.
      A changing bag has a simple but clever construction of zippered "locks"
similar in principle to many conventional darkroom baffle doors.
     Also darkroom free: Polaroid 35mm instant monochrome and color slide
films, used with an electronic, very portable autoprocessor. Following a
foolproof, 3-minute automated run of exposed film, you can print the chromes with
Daylabs. I am unable, however, to comment on roll film for pinholes.

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Received on Thu Jun 17 21:39:19 2004