Some time back now, there was a thread about a 1905 issue of the Photo
Miniature by H. D'Arcy Power titled "Advanced Pinhole Photography" that
eventually led to me posting that and several other early pinhole
articles on my website.
Recently, as I was trying to find out more about David Brewster's work
with pinhole, Peter Stubbs , who maintains a site on the history of the
Edinburgh Photographic Society ( http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/index.htm
) sent me an update by D'Arcy Power that appeared in the British
Journal of Photography in 1925, twenty years after the Photo Miniature
issue. He talks about better materials and improved methods for making
pinholes.
He also sent me the text of an 1887 presentation to the Edinburgh
Photographic Society by Wiliam Forgan. Except for the warning about
being careful with the glass plates, it could have been presented
yesterday.
Both of these are now up on my site at
http://idea.uwosh.edu/nick/oldarticles.htm
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