re: Digital Pinhole Was: Long live WPPD 2009!

I went with the low tech end with a $10 Jam Cam camera bought on Ebay. Still
having trouble getting any image. Maybe I'll try a bigger pinhole. Might look
for a web cam too? I've got the summer off! Time to experiment!

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Chuck
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From:    ednaz@attglobal.net
To:      pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org
Subject: re:[pinhole-discussion] Digital Pinhole Was: Long live WPPD 2009!
Date:    Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:06:54 +0000
> 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.
> 
> ---- Original Message ----
> 
> From: "Guy Glorieux" <guy.glorieux@gmail.com>
> To: pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org
> Cc: 
> 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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