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Now some b&w to please Gary :)

 

I showed you the Mont Saint Michel bay and the abbey , isn't Gary(Gs) , where you see

at the top of the arrow , the St Michael angel in gold * (picture 1)
 

You have here the statue of the Archangel Michael inside the abbey (picture 2)

 

Fuji Acros 100

Leica MP

135 Apo Telyt Asph

 

 

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Leica M7

Kodak TX400

90 Apo Summicron Asph

 

 

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Henry

 

currently being restored for two months :)

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Last Sunday was the annual "Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day". Once a year, on the last Sunday in April,

people all over the world take pictures with pinhole cameras (actually any lens-less photo is eligible) and post

one of the shots taken on that day on the "Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day" website.

 

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I started the day in my favourite local brasserie, having a cup of coffee with my daughter (self-made panorama

pinhole camera, Portra 160, 15 minutes exposure)

 

Rgds

 

Christoph

... and how does it works Christoph ?

where you put the film and how to present the camera ?

in principle a cardboard box is enough no ?

In any case nice color of Portra 160

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Henry

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... and how does it works Christoph ?

where you put the film and how to present the camera ?

in principle a cardboard box is enough no ?

In any case nice color of Portra 160

Best

Henry

 

 

Henry, 

 

Attached a picture of the camera in question. Basically a wooden box with a tiny hole in the front. 

That hole is, in the picture covered by the sliding shutter, that plate-thing sticking out on the top

above the hole. You can lift it up to open the shutter. 

 

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Two turning knobs on top, the middle one to open the lid on top of the camera if you want to 

change the roll-film. the other one to the side to advance the film. There is a small viewing hole

covered with a red filter on the back of the camera to check the film number. The film itself lies 

curved in the camera resulting in a panoramic view. Consequently, there is virtually no distortion 

on the vertical axis, whereas the horizontal axis exhibits a sort-of fisheye distortion. The camera

is a bit more complex to build than a cardboard box, but it is quite sturdy, and the use of roll film 

makes the taking of multiple exposures easier. 

 

As exposure times mostly range from 1/2 a second in bright sunlight to hours in dimmer light,

the use of a tripod is recommended. I do have a Lunasix meter, which covers up to f90, so it's 

relatively easy to convert exposure times to f256...

 

Rgds

 

Christoph

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Henry, 

 

Attached a picture of the camera in question. Basically a wooden box with a tiny hole in the front. 

That hole is, in the picture covered by the sliding shutter, that plate-thing sticking out on the top

above the hole. You can lift it up to open the shutter. 

 

attachicon.gif140501_1_MP_0013.jpg

 

Two turning knobs on top, the middle one to open the lid on top of the camera if you want to 

change the roll-film. the other one to the side to advance the film. There is a small viewing hole

covered with a red filter on the back of the camera to check the film number. The film itself lies 

curved in the camera resulting in a panoramic view. Consequently, there is virtually no distortion 

on the vertical axis, whereas the horizontal axis exhibits a sort-of fisheye distortion. The camera

is a bit more complex to build than a cardboard box, but it is quite sturdy, and the use of roll film 

makes the taking of multiple exposures easier. 

 

As exposure times mostly range from 1/2 a second in bright sunlight to hours in dimmer light,

the use of a tripod is recommended. I do have a Lunasix meter, which covers up to f90, so it's 

relatively easy to convert exposure times to f256...

 

Rgds

 

Christoph

 

It reminds me of the good old days of my great grandfather equipment with neverless a lens

Thanks for the explanation Christoph

Best

Henry

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I've never built one Henry, but figure you could do it with either/any film body where you can remove the lens. A solid body cap with a pinhole in it would suffice. But exposure of minutes.

Gary

 

 

In principle you are right, and if you turn up the ISO to a few thousand, you may even be able to take pictures free hand. 

You can purchase those caps, or simply make one yourself. Best to drill a larger hole in a body-cap and then use a fine sewing 

needle on a thin foil of copper or brass, and stick that pinhole on the body-cap. 

 

The advantage of large format is a relatively sharper picture though. Somehow, due to mathematics and physics and how

light bends around the pinhole, larger format pinhole cameras have a distinctive image quality advantage over 35mm

pinhole cameras - a bigger difference in my experience than their comparative lensed brethren.

 

Of course, at some level image quality in a traditional sense may not be what you are after anyway if you use a pinhole camera ...

in which case you can just as well forget all I just wrote... :o

 

Rgds

 

C.

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Gary and Christoph,

 

"I've never built one"

Gary perhaps with these pictures , you can have some inspiration :D

 

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and this link :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Daguerre

 

longer need lens, photo Christoph is perfect :)

 

Regards

Henry

 

 

 

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Henry, 

 

Attached a picture of the camera in question. Basically a wooden box with a tiny hole in the front. 

That hole is, in the picture covered by the sliding shutter, that plate-thing sticking out on the top

above the hole. You can lift it up to open the shutter. 

 

attachicon.gif140501_1_MP_0013.jpg

 

Two turning knobs on top, the middle one to open the lid on top of the camera if you want to 

change the roll-film. the other one to the side to advance the film. There is a small viewing hole

covered with a red filter on the back of the camera to check the film number. The film itself lies 

curved in the camera resulting in a panoramic view. Consequently, there is virtually no distortion 

on the vertical axis, whereas the horizontal axis exhibits a sort-of fisheye distortion. The camera

is a bit more complex to build than a cardboard box, but it is quite sturdy, and the use of roll film 

makes the taking of multiple exposures easier. 

 

As exposure times mostly range from 1/2 a second in bright sunlight to hours in dimmer light,

the use of a tripod is recommended. I do have a Lunasix meter, which covers up to f90, so it's 

relatively easy to convert exposure times to f256...

 

Rgds

 

Christoph

 

This was my try at Pinhole, i unscrewed the lens off my 135mm lens for the C330 and made a pinhole with some cooking foil and a neddle at first but found a brass made pinhole on ebay for £5 off Ebay

Foil pinhole

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This was with the bellows in, Tate Gallery St Ives, Cornwall

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Ghost photo taken at Church Cove Cornwall bellows fully out

360-XL.jpg

 

Not tried it since

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Winter memories:

 

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