Re: Long live WPPD 2009!

Turning a cheap webcam into a pinhole is a brilliant idea. I've been
thinking of trying to do a pinhole video that way.

I've seen a lot of webcams in second hand stores, selling for a couple
of dollars at most. No one seems to want older webcams, which suggests
that webcams could be the holgas of the digital world...

Ana Maria Schultze wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm writing from Brazil, so I can say that Taco is right in some point of view - we really have
> many programs that work with poor children, but that't not all.
>
> Here in Brazil, b&w photographic paper, or even film, is not so cheap, so a lot of these
> programs don't keep working with pinhole because of the costs.
>
> I really can say that mostly of the brazilians who sent their pinhole pics are entusiastics of the
> technic.
>
> And I agree: digital pinhole would not work with these programs 'cause the same reason:
> cost of a digital camera to be turned into a pinhole camera.
>
> I myself do a project in a public school, where we work with photography, and I know how
> hard is to buy material (paper, chemics etc.). Anyway I bought with my own money a cheap
> webcam who I'm going to turn into a pinhole camera to work with my kids.
>
> I think digital is irreversible, Taco, I'm sorry. :)))
>
> kisses from Brazil
>
> Ana Maria
>
>
> On 2 Jun 2008 at 23:16, Wolfgang Thoma wrote:
>
>> Murray Leshner wrote:
>>> Brazil & US submissions down :Kodak-connection?
>>>
>>> Do we need to campaign for how-to-pinhole with digital?
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>> Murray,
>> If you regard the brazilian WPPD submissions you can see that most of
>> them come from workshops, probably organized by social workers to keep
>> kids out of the crime scene. I don't believe that digital would be of
>> help here.
>> Another point: I -as one of the six WPPD coordinators- was the only one
>> to vote against the use of digital cameras for WPPD, but the others
>> overruled me. I'm not speaking for the coordination team now but for my
>> own: DEAD ON DIGITAL !!!!!
>> taco
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