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.
>

Perhaps, but I think that it will depend upon one's style. I've shot hundreds of digital pinhole images with my D70 and have been pleased with, at most, a handful. For what I'm looking for, 4X5 film works best, for others that may not be the case.

Cheers -

george

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--- On Mon, 6/2/08, Ed Nazarko <ednaz@attglobal.net> wrote:

> From: Ed Nazarko <ednaz@attglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Long live WPPD 2009!
> To: pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org
> Date: Monday, June 2, 2008, 8:20 PM
> 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 !!!!!
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