RE: Pinhole Digi-cam

I can see your point if you're using a digital
back...however, i'm using digital materials to make
contact negs...take my 8x10 print, flip it to neg in
PS, then print on a transparency...ready for
cyanotypes gum bichomates, etc...
--- Eric <eric@landguard-manor1.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> I believe making digital pinhole cameras would make
> and take the creativity
> out I've heard of guys/girls doing salt prints,
> bromoils etc within there
> computers, which we all know are only look alike,
> DON'T GO THIS WAY SKILLS
> WILL BE LOST.
> Eric M
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org
> [mailto:owner-pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org] On
> Behalf Of Dan Gerber
> Sent: 09 December 2004 21:24
> To: pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org
> Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Pinhole Digi-cam
>
> No, I can't. Good point. I still use my round film
> plane pinhole camera, as
> well as a few others. The boxes of dusty film
> cameras comment should have
> had the word *lens* in front of it!
>
> I can't wait until someone comes up with a flexible,
> thin digital camera
> sensor, so I can make bent film(sensor) plane
> pinhole cameras. For that
> matter, I can't wait until you can just buy a
> sensor, and out it in a
> homemade camera.
>
> -Dan
>
>
> On 12/9/04 2:29 PM, "Pinhole Blender"
> <chris@pinholeblender.com> wrote:
>
> > But can you bend that sensor around a tube like
> you can with film or
> > paper. Maybe it can satisfy those who use flat
> film planes but I like
> > to bend things a bit or overlap exposures or make
> really wide angle
> > cameras. If I had a SLR digital I would surely use
> it for pinhole but I
> > wouldn't let dust accumulate on my film cameras,
> they have too much
> > flexibility to offer.
> >
> > Chris
> > --
> > Pinhole Blender
> > chris@pinholeblender.com
> > http://www.pinholeblender.com
> >
> >
> >> -------- Original Message --------
> >> Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Pinhole
> Digi-cam
> >> From: "Dan Gerber" <dgerber@adobe.com>
> >> Date: Thu, December 09, 2004 2:45 pm
> >> To: pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org
> >>
> >> I've also been using a pinhole body cap on my
> Canon EOS 10D. I can
> >> wholeheartedly second the dust problem! On the
> other hand, it is a good
> way
> >> to see how dirty your sensor is! I don't feel any
> guilt as a result,
> >> everything is just a tool to express our ideas,
> nothing more. Digital
> means
> >> of capture and manipulation are just as relevant
> as analog processes, and
> >> allow a lot of people to produce interesting work
> who otherwise might not
> >> have if they were locked into traditional
> processes.
> >>
> >> I'll admit, my boxes of film cameras is getting a
> pretty thick coating of
> >> dust on it, but I simply haven't found a reason
> to go back to using film
> for
> >> the past 2 years.
> >>
> >> -Dan
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 12/9/04 1:14 PM, "Howard Wells"
> <sandwell@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I've mounted pinholes on Nikon digital SLRs to
> good effect. The only
> major
> >>> problem is that the great depth of field of the
> tiny aperture causes any
> >>> grit or dust on the low-pass filter to become a
> prominent and unwanted
> >>> feature in the image. Dust and grit that does
> not show up in normal
> lensed
> >>> usage. Converting a digi-cam to pinhole might
> avoid the problem. Other
> than
> >>> that they are great for pinhole, offering the
> instant feedback I love so
> >>> much with Polaroid without reciprocity effects.
> >>>
> >>> However, it does inject an element of guilt into
> the process, at least
> for
> >>> me, that my film box polaroids and other pinhole
> cameras don't produce.
> I'm
> >>> not a Luddite and the image is still being
> formed through a pinhole but.
> . .
> >>>
> >>> Peace and Happy Holidays,
> >>>
> >>> Howard Wells
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> [Original Message]
> >>>> From: Doug Holt <mancer@verizon.net>
> >>>> To: <pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org>
> >>>> Date: 12/9/2004 1:31:15 PM
> >>>> Subject: RE: [pinhole-discussion] anti-newton
> ring glass
> >>>>
> >>>> Always more than one way to skin a cat... not
> that I ever wanted a
> >>> skinned
> >>>> cat around.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm thinking the best thing to do is go to an
> all digital pinhole. I
> >>> wonder
> >>>> if anyone on this list has converted a
> digi-camera yet?
> >>>
> >>> --- Howard Wells
> >>> --- sandwell@earthlink.net
> >>> --- hwells@artacademy.edu
> >>> --- home.earthlink.net/~sandwell
> >>> --- http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/hiw3/my_photos
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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