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It's a cinema at the outskirts of Montpellier. Here's the proof :D 

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On ‎4‎/‎25‎/‎2020 at 7:56 AM, christoph_d said:

On a different topic, and as you have perhaps a bit more time this year at home: On April 26th is the next "International Pinhole Photography Day". You can find all the details on pinhole dot org, but the idea is basically that all participants submit one picture they took on April the 26th with a lensless camera, so pinholes, zone plates etc. are permitted. Submissions can be done until June 30th, and all submitted pictures will be shown on an online gallery. (And, not to forget, in this way you can experiment with the unschaerfe theory that Phil talked about...🙂)

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On ‎4‎/‎25‎/‎2020 at 11:24 AM, christoph_d said:

No cheap excuses please 😲! Maco and fotoimpex have at least one if not many pinholecameras ready to send, one to four days in Germany. I am sure its the same with comparable shops in France, the UK and the US. 
Alternatively you could sacrifice a common camera cap. Drill a hole, or even better drill a large hole and glue a smaller hole (made for example from a beercan) on the inside. Focal length should be about 28mm, so you can even use the respective viewfinder marks from your M, and the lightmeter if present. Or you build your own camera...

Lots of options. A long week week still to go. Live your dream! You can do it! 👍🏻

 

On ‎4‎/‎25‎/‎2020 at 12:43 PM, christoph_d said:

I just remembered, as a most simple trial you could cut out a round piece from a black thin cardboard, just a bit smaller than the outer diameter of the bayonet ring on the camera, prick a hole in the center and use some tape to fix it to the camera instead of an objective... 

 

23 hours ago, Steve Ricoh said:

If you assume f # of 100, I’d meter normally and work out the corresponding shutter opening. Then compensate for the break down in linear reciprocity using the film manufacturer’s data. It tends to an exponential, but not quite. 

 

13 hours ago, christoph_d said:

Hi Gary,

You could either use a known size to make the pinhole, for example a 1mm drill (quite big), or you could measure the size of the pinhole using anything from callipers to a microscope. Just for the example let's say you have a 1mm pinhole. Then you measure the distance from the pinhole to the film, again, for the example say it is 28mm. Now you calculate the f-stop of your lens by dividing your focal length, 30mm, by the pinhole diameter, 1mm; so in the example you get 30. You probably want to round this off to 32 as 32 is a common f-number. 

So after metering you can easily calculate your shutter speeds. All films are different, so you will have to look up the Schwarzschild effect on the Datasheet of your film. My rule of thumb: If the sun shines, just use normal values as you would for any lens. When it gets darker, like shadow areas outside, expose 1.5x, inside in daylight 2x, in the night 4 - 8x as long. Luckily most films are quite forgiving. Bracketing helps, especially with slide film. 

Btw. if you use an old can or tea-box as a camera, an effective and simple shutter can be made from black insulation tape, for your Leica, use the shutter you already have.

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3 hours ago, Sparkassenkunde said:

This is my favorite picture. Could have used a bit more exposure time, but like the result:

PP in Lightroom and SEP2

 

3 hours ago, Sparkassenkunde said:

And here a portrait of my oldest, exposure time was 4 or even 8 seconds:

 

I just grabbed a gaggle of pinholeria and flashed back to the 17th century and the Delft school on perspective and the camera obscura with some verbatim notes on Fabritius and Vermeer.

Notes from Vermeer and the Delft School by Walter Liedtke:

 

"Fabritius painted illusionistic murals which demonstrated his expertise in perspective."

Recovered from the ruins of his studio demolished in the catastrophic explosion of the powder magazine in Delft, which took the life of Fabritius and four others in the house, was a “perspective” box, a couple of “cases,” and an “optical piece.“ Records referred to “illusionistic works of art“ by Fabritius, which support the opinion that his "View in Delft" was originally mounted in a perspective box.

 
Delft Masters: Vermeer's Contemporaries by Michiel C. C. Kirsten

"There are studies suggesting that Fabritius recorded his townscape while looking through some kind of lens and that Vermeer used a portable camera obscura if one existed at the time to arrive at optical effects of light and color in a number of works.  According to these hypotheses, the distortions found in a view in Delft if it was mounted on a flat surface 'offered a fascinating alternative to man’s normal perception of the visible world,' while 'Vermeer’s interest in the camera obscura seems to have been for its philosophical as well as for its artistic application.'"

 

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Elmarit 90 f2.8 portra 160 M3. Duxford Air Show, late last summer.

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1 hour ago, philipus said:

 

Hi James, I just tried pinhole today for the first time. We'll see what develops (groan), but it was fun to do. 

I do disagree with you about Rog's colour studies, though. I think they definitely belong here, just like all other analogue photography, thanks to the blessed powers that be here in the forum. But you're free not to come if you wish, or to post photos of your own. I don't believe you do that very often, so I for one would be interested in seeing your take on film photography. Everyone is welcome here :) 

 

I have posted in the past in this rapidly evolving thread; search and ye shall find. They were shot when I first went back to film. Trouble is time is often short and downsizing a real pain.

I meant no offense to Rog or his admirers here; art is in the eyes of the observer. I did love his recent posting of a tree seen through a small window-like gap (powerful image) as I do of his creative musings. I simply wondered out loud whether this is the thread for the collages. That's all.

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4 hours ago, benqui said:

Plaubel Makina 67, Ilford Delta 400

 

 

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Looks like a contender for ‘through the keyhole (pinhole), what the butler saw’ 😉 As always, very nice indeed. 👌👍

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On ‎4‎/‎25‎/‎2020 at 12:38 AM, stray cat said:

This is just wonderful. The history of photography, deconstructed and reconstituted as a visionary tableau. THIS is how photography is/was/will forever remain, from the clumsy mahogany cameras to rangefinder framelines, reversed, upside-down images, enlargements, time, exposure - it's all here. See an image, visualize it as a print or on your screen, then go out and do what is necessary to expose your medium so that the process is set underway. So much here, just for our flights of fancy to transport us there.

Thanks, Phil!

Oh, how I relish pouring over your musings, rather articulate analyses. I humbly pin a target to the bark of that tree in the forest of ideas and have a go at it, however pedestrian the effort, and even after sometimes a dozen or more "artist proofs," arrive at something that may still be a prime candidate for the "scrub it" bin. Still, I rather amuse myself with the challenge of take an entirely ho-hum unremarkable shot, like the hala tree in "Foto," and make a statement about making a statement (with a "foto") that is precisely more about the architectural process of making a photograph than the photograph itself. I feel so proud of your commentary that this was a statement about the process (and history) of making a photograph. Out of focus, in focus, being focused, altered, re-visioned, framed, and in the context of the most primitive pinhole camera imaginable, a hole in an ancient Kauaian plank that somehow has affinity with the Hala tree on the Lumahai side of Kauai, and yet, there's the other plane of vision using rangefinder framing lines. As you allude, it's a photograph that has nothing to do with the commonplace image but everything to do with the process. The image, for me, is a so-what throwaway, but the collage construction, which is very Bauhaus, thank you for 100 years, is salvageable.

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17 hours ago, AntonioF said:

Every year I say I want to partecipate and every year I forget to pinhole something ...

How does it work on the 645? More or less whats the focal lenght?

From the field of view I got, I think it is about 80mm focal length. This is also the distance between the "lens" and the film plane. Besides the fact, that you can only guess, what is in the Frame, it worked quite well. If it where not for the Pinhole Day, I wouldn't use this concept on a regular Basis. I have thought about bying a 6x17 pinhole camera from realitysosubtle, though. Some of the samples I found online, where quite good. Another thought Spinning in my head now for a while is the acquisition of a large format camera. I saw a Toyo View 4x5 online lately for a reasonable price...

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On 4/25/2020 at 11:11 AM, stray cat said:

Thank you sincerely, Steve, I really mean that. Ever since you first contacted me about that picture I have felt so immensely proud. To think a father, and a man whose photography I respect so much, chose one of my pictures as a gift for his son. It is one of the most rewarding experiences that I have ever had from photography, and I can't thank you enough.

                                                            

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Many things go through your mind on looking at this photo, I'll spare you, but I love the dynamic feeling it imparts and yes it place is printed and hung on a wall to allow contemplation and motivation.

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On 4/25/2020 at 4:56 PM, christoph_d said:

On a different topic, and as you have perhaps a bit more time this year at home: On April 26th is the next "International Pinhole Photography Day". You can find all the details on pinhole dot org, but the idea is basically that all participants submit one picture they took on April the 26th with a lensless camera, so pinholes, zone plates etc. are permitted. Submissions can be done until June 30th, and all submitted pictures will be shown on an online gallery. (And, not to forget, in this way you can experiment with the unschaerfe theory that Phil talked about...🙂)

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Shame on me I missed out this year! But this view from the Bishops house is wonderful. 

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1 hour ago, Sparkassenkunde said:

From the field of view I got, I think it is about 80mm focal length. This is also the distance between the "lens" and the film plane. Besides the fact, that you can only guess, what is in the Frame, it worked quite well. If it where not for the Pinhole Day, I wouldn't use this concept on a regular Basis. I have thought about bying a 6x17 pinhole camera from realitysosubtle, though. Some of the samples I found online, where quite good. Another thought Spinning in my head now for a while is the acquisition of a large format camera. I saw a Toyo View 4x5 online lately for a reasonable price...

Also Ondu pinhole cameras look pretty good.

At the beginning of 2020 a friend and I decide that this would have been the large format year and we started looking at the Intrepid 4x5 camera, maybe to pair with a Fujifilm 150mm lense. Then the chaos descended on Italy and now we don't know anymore. Maybe next year. Too bad Speed Graphic 4x5s are not common in Europe, they look interesting.

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