Re: my 2nd pinhole roll

Hi Murray,

> http://uptowngallery.org/Murray/Pinhole/35RFPH/Fuji200SuperHQ/
>
> Roughly 41 mm f.l. , behind and using the existing
> camera shutter.

Others have commented on the vignetting, but is that really vignetting
or is it a physical characteristic/limitation of the camera? I
think of vignetting as the natural fall-off of light from bright
at the center to dim at the circumference. It shows up in corners
if you print to a rectangular format, but I never see such a perfect
circle when my film/paper is larger than the image coming through
the pinhole.

If I cropped this image more tightly--

    http://erictheise.com/images/14.jpg

that's what I think of as vignetting. Maybe my definition is too
narrow.

Your images have such a crisp and perfect circular border that it
must be a function of what remains of the lens/shutter assembly.
Some of the photos record the backside of the former lens housing.

Anyway, I grew up in Chicago, and that seems to be a very Great
Lakes landscape you're wandering in. In the BigRed series, though
I appreciate it when the whole unusual lighthouse structure is
revealed, I sort of prefer the first three, especially #2, where
the building remains largely obscured by the dunes. Channel and
blindbench seem very midwest to me as well; I like them both very
much.

Tinkering is good, but so is making pictures from time to time!
Keep at it.

Yours from a drizzly San Francisco, where we're hoping for brighter
skies on WPPD tomorrow.

--Eric
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Received on Sat Apr 23 12:22:14 2005