re: Digital Pinhole Was: Long live WPPD 2009!

I'm dying to try pinhole with one of the larger
medium format digital backs. Something oddly
appealing about the concept of using a $30,000
digital back and a hole in metal from a discarded
cola can as a lens.

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From: "Guy Glorieux" <guy.glorieux@gmail.com>
To: pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org
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Subject: [pinhole-discussion] Digital Pinhole Was:
Long live WPPD 2009!
Date: Mon, June 02, 2008, 21:29:00

Hey Taco,

Glad you got overruled on digital pinhole... -:)
My submission was digital pinhole...
http://www.pinholeday.org/gallery/2008/index.php?id=327

I agree that *"digital pinhole" is a conceptual
aberration*.
and so is digital photography.

But they both exist
and they offer a wide spectrum of possibilities
for a different type of imaging.

I find digital pinhole difficult do deal with
because the response of the image is very
different from silver-based
pinhole.
The very small size of the CCD results in a
magnification of the pinhole
softness
to the point of turning it into an unpleasant blur.
Also, the small CCD turns the fixed focal +/- 50mm
into a medium-telephoto
making it very difficult to work close to the subject.
Stil, some interesting results can be obtained
see the page on Marie-Noelle Leroy's blog
http://foto-grafik.blogspot.com/2008/04/un-qubquois-paris.html

If you let your imagination loose,
you can get some much more interesting results.
eg Marilyn marilys Davis-Moore's work at the
pinhole exhibition in Le
Bourget this spring
where she worked with digital and a grossly
oversized pinhole.
The result is a very impressionistic image.
http://holbein.free.fr/esp-holbein/stenope13_600
from the page
http://espace-holbein.over-blog.org/article-18137605.html

All in all, I would venture to say that there is
as much difference
between ... digital and silver-based pinhole
as there is between ... pinhole and lens photography!

The debate is open!

2008/6/2 Wolfgang Thoma <wolfgang@thoma.be>:

> 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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