first pinhole photograph

[bryans_tx]

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.

 

[bryans_tx]

scanned epson v600

 

[ced]

Well Done! Love the Hawkeye...

 

[bryans_tx]

hawkeye was quite easy to modify
I can see getting hooked on pinhole images

 

[kier]

Welcome to the cult!

 

[onemississipp]

Great job! Pinhole is fascinating. You should of heard my wife when I had out boxes, glue, and duct tape. She said what are you doing? Building a pinhole camera! She said, WTH, you just bought a $1000 camera I haven't even seen and your making a POS camera. I said, yup.

Once the image was on paper, she was impressed and confused at how it worked!

She supports my pinhole habit now.

I have noticed a size 10 needle varies by brand, what size was yours?

 

[onemississipp]

Want to make a 8x10 pinhole camera soon!

 

[bryans_tx]

It is a beading needle, calipers say .43mm. I ordered a .4mm pinhole off of the bay. should be interesting. I can use the microscope at work to see how round these things are. I actually dont care if its not round... will have to try some really jagged ones too. its all fun. The ebay one will be much more round than what I made.

onemississipp, I hear you. $$ film. maybe best to use paper. I have an 1890's eh anthony... I should get it working somehow for using using paper. actual film (wetplate) holder and ground glass missing, so pinhole is a good alternative. bellows are good.

I shot using fomapan 100 this evening. film is hanging up, drying. looks to be thin though. adox f39 7 minutes 20c

 

[NedL]

Want to make a 8x10 pinhole camera soon!

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!

 

[bryans_tx]

it IS all about "character", otherwise we would just grab a digital camera thingy

 

[RalphLambrecht]

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.

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!

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 photography

 

[Jim Jones]

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!

Four-sided apertures have been used on quality lenses from Leica and others with success. A clever mechanic could design and make a three- or four-sided adjustable pinhole to cover almost all focal lengths. For a panoramic pinhole camera, an elliptical pinhole should slightly outperform the traditional circle. When raising the pinhole as in the rising front used on view cameras for architectural photography, tilting the axis towards the most distant edge of the film slightly improves sharpness and even illumination. At first, pinholes and their cameras sound simple. However, they offer a rich range of complexity. Just ask, "what if?" Then try it.

 

[bryans_tx]

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.

 

[ced]

I would give brass shims a go too as you can get sheets almost as thin as alu-foil and I think the hole is cleaner too.

 

[onemississipp]

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.

Looking forward to the new photos!