carbonadam Posted February 1, 2010 Share #1 Posted February 1, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) I put a hole in some tin foil and put it over the M9 with no lens on it. I took a few exposures and this was the sharpest one. I'm thinking of making a cover/pinhole now with some brass and a very fine hole. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted February 1, 2010 Posted February 1, 2010 Hi carbonadam, Take a look here Leica M9 Tin Foil Pinhole. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
adan Posted February 1, 2010 Share #2 Posted February 1, 2010 Definitely you should send Leica your original so they can post it as a "performance proof" for the coffee can - err - M9. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
likalar Posted February 1, 2010 Share #3 Posted February 1, 2010 Carbon, Just curious....are you waiting on a lens? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbertoDeRoma Posted February 1, 2010 Share #4 Posted February 1, 2010 Good for you! It's great to experiment and mess around like this (then again, I love Make magazine.) I think you might be on to something - I can see a $500 pin-hole lens in the market. Alberto Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danyves Posted February 1, 2010 Share #5 Posted February 1, 2010 Classic Get your SPINS for the Leica M! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovrencg Posted February 1, 2010 Share #6 Posted February 1, 2010 Hi, Here you can by pinhole for M cameras: Pincap Lochblende Leica M (26398) Monochrom® Lochblenden für Spiegelreflexkameras Monochrom Best regards Lovrenc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivo_Afrikanac Posted February 1, 2010 Share #7 Posted February 1, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) how far was the foil from the sensor? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bybrett Posted February 1, 2010 Share #8 Posted February 1, 2010 Worldwide pinhole day is April 25th 2010... Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day - home Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted February 1, 2010 Share #9 Posted February 1, 2010 Maybe, you could market it as the ultimate dust sensor checker (see your picture) for the pathologically obsessed. You will be able to find them (your new sales target demographic) soon, I'm sure, when they are back with another thread like: "I just received my M9 and it has dust on the new sensor. I am so disappointed with Leica!" (I apologize in advance to anyone who has complained in the past about dust... smiley face in above post makes everything ok). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdtaylor Posted February 2, 2010 Share #10 Posted February 2, 2010 Fabulous. Definitely out of the box... thanks for the post. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbonadam Posted February 2, 2010 Author Share #11 Posted February 2, 2010 Hehe. Thanks for the comments everyone. I have a few lenses but I'm always messing around. I have only been a Leica owner for over a year now. Most of my photographic life has been spent with far less expensive cameras and techniques. I'm an artist too: UAG Member Site + Member Adam Furgang I just took some tin foil off the roll in my kitchen. I made it big enough to wrap around the front edges of the camera. It was no where near the sensor. Before I put the foil over the camera I made a small hole. It took a few tries and pieces of foil to get a small enough hole to get this shot. I just placed the camera on a chair and took the shot while my wife held still. Back in school we used to used imperfect X-Ray film from the medical college. We made big pinhole cameras out of large oatmeal boxes and then make cyanotype or palladium contact prints. This kind up stuff has always been with me. I just decided to see how it would work, or if it would work with the M9. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adan Posted February 2, 2010 Share #12 Posted February 2, 2010 The real question is - is your pinhole a focal length that shows the red edge problem? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bo_Lorentzen Posted February 2, 2010 Share #13 Posted February 2, 2010 Andy raises a good question, guess along with that one is tempted to wonder what code for the alu-foil 000000 ? Pin hole cameras are good fun, even on $5000 sensors. When I was a kid, I routinely "borrowed" a piece of 3x5 photo-paper from my fathers darkroom, taped it in the back of a shoebox and proceeded to expose it somewhere by lifting the black tape on the front of the box (tele version shoots the long way of the box, zuuuper tele version includes a paper-towel roll for extra reach... don't ask how I know) A kid could easily blow through a handful of paper on a sunday afternoon, run home and process each after exposure... the going out to re-addjust. THAT was great times. . . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemal_mumcu Posted February 2, 2010 Share #14 Posted February 2, 2010 I would like to try just for fun, but with a non-metered film M. What kind of exposure were you using? Any f value of a pinhole? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
diogenis Posted February 2, 2010 Share #15 Posted February 2, 2010 You should now make a contraption for a variable pinhole! So that you can have the first and only zoom lens on a M9 ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spydrxx Posted February 3, 2010 Share #16 Posted February 3, 2010 For Kemal - Here's info on focal length & f stops Pinhole to focal length Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted February 4, 2010 Share #17 Posted February 4, 2010 Bo_Lorentzen Brings back memories. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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