Do it!Want to make a 8x10 pinhole camera soon!
well... its a start
camera is a Brownie hawkeye. lens removed. .002 stainless steel shim , #10 needle, placed under the brownies protective square front glass.
400tx in hc100 dilution B. 3min,45sec 20c
rainy overcast day.
That's a very good picture for first try. What is the focal length. I usually choose the needle giving me around F/ 180. For optimum quality. But a bit unsharpness is after all part of the charm pinhole photographyDo it!I'm always surprised how fast they come together once I start ... although I make the kind that you can just recycle or cut up to make another one... black matboard or foamcore or tins. I don't think I've ever spent more than a couple hours making one. The 8x10 negatives are awesome.
Oh and by the way bryans_tx... I know there are a lot of people who think a pinhole has to be perfectly round and perfectly razor-edged and everything else you read. But if you make any hole of any kind and it's close to the right size, you'll get an image, and some of them have character. I've made pinholes using 3 and 4 razor-blade edges that were triangles and squares and they make acceptable photos.
The only place on your negative where the pinhole is a circle is dead center. Everywhere else it's an ellipse. I have an unproven speculation that blurriness due to diffraction looks a little different than blurriness due to geometry, and that how they combine gives image some character... if you make a "squinty" pinhole on purpose, and then make a photo in a forest with tree trunks...and then tip the camera on it's side and do it again, it is very interesting how different the two pictures look!
Do it!I'm always surprised how fast they come together once I start ... although I make the kind that you can just recycle or cut up to make another one... black matboard or foamcore or tins. I don't think I've ever spent more than a couple hours making one. The 8x10 negatives are awesome.
Oh and by the way bryans_tx... I know there are a lot of people who think a pinhole has to be perfectly round and perfectly razor-edged and everything else you read. But if you make any hole of any kind and it's close to the right size, you'll get an image, and some of them have character. I've made pinholes using 3 and 4 razor-blade edges that were triangles and squares and they make acceptable photos.
The only place on your negative where the pinhole is a circle is dead center. Everywhere else it's an ellipse. I have an unproven speculation that blurriness due to diffraction looks a little different than blurriness due to geometry, and that how they combine gives image some character... if you make a "squinty" pinhole on purpose, and then make a photo in a forest with tree trunks...and then tip the camera on it's side and do it again, it is very interesting how different the two pictures look!
I worked on the haweye's pinhole this morning. made a new one. again with #10 beading needle.
It is much better centered in the camera. previosuly the pinhole was off center of the haweye's built in apeture hole. every thing inside of the hawkeye is there.. only removed the lens from inside.
the distance from film plane to pinhole is approx 105mm.
shot a roll this morning, same subject, better light on ilford delta 100.
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