How often you shoot pinholes instead of lens cameras?

[marciofs]

Well done.

 

[Chris Livsey]

Well done.

Appreciated.
I now read the laser cut may not be the best answer but those cut to give a knife edge, good job Leica don't make a pinhole as these are cheap enough to experiment with.

 

[Jonathan Van Matre]

Attached an M* selfie with the pinhole taken in a mirror

I love the notion of a camera taking a selfie of itself.

Someday, when the Leica M14 has sufficient AI to tell us "Es tut mir leid, Dave, ich kann das nicht tun." we are going to have some interesting questions about copyright.

 

[Chris Livsey]

"Es tut mir leid, Dave, ich kann das nicht tun."

The answer will be quite simple:- "Daisy, Daisy, geben Sie mir Ihre Antwort zu tun. Ich bin halb verrückt alles aus Liebe zu dir. Es wird nicht eine stilvolle Hochzeit sein, kann ich einen Wagen nicht leisten. Aber du wirst süß auf dem Fahrradsattel aus zwei eingebauten suchen."

( I hope google translate doesn't know HAL )

 

[DWThomas]

Appreciated.
I now read the laser cut may not be the best answer but those cut to give a knife edge, good job Leica don't make a pinhole as these are cheap enough to experiment with.

Yes, I am led to believe the ultimate pinhole is a perfectly round hole in an infinitesimally thick sheet. I have made mine by using the "dimple and sand" method, most recently in 0.001 inch brass shim stock, and they work quite well. One does not create the hole by pushing a pin or needle through the material, but simply creating a sharp, pimple-like bump which is then sanded gently using fine wet sandpaper in a circular motion until it breaks through the bump and gets to the desired diameter. That does produce a knife edge on the hole. It takes a little patience (maybe even a lot!) I use a piece of mat board as a work surface to support the brass. I also blacken the final plate with a chemical process rather than paint or black marker pen to avoid any blobs and buildups.

I have participated in Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day since I learned about it in 2005, but I might confess I find the process of making pinhole cameras slightly more interesting than using them -- a bit like model railroaders who spend all their time building and revising layouts and never running the trains! :

 

[ciniframe]

In the last three years or so I've also become much more interested in pinhole cameras. This especially since I found six 4X5 Riteway film holders at a garage sale for $5 for the lot. That started a slippery slope of larger format. Although I know some are very successful with medium format I personally do not want to use anything smaller than 4X5. So far I've been using paper as a negative. This is for ease of handling and cost.

Concerning building vs buying a pinhole camera. I believe I have developed an easy build method for a 4X5 pinhole that will take different front ends for different focal length pinholes thus giving different angle of view. For simplicity I've so far built to a 90mm FL and a .35mm pinhole (.014 inch). This gives a fairly wide view but not too much fall off at the corner.

The basic materials come from a variety of sources, craft store, hardware store, office supply and artist supply store. The cost per camera is about $8 in materials not including used 4X5 film holders, wood glue, brass shim stock, black masking tape, all of which can be used to build many pinhole cameras.

I already had all the photo paper, developers, stop, fix, trays and safe light and a dark place to work. If one had to start from scratch then these darkroom items would probably run to about $125 and that includes a 100 sheet box of 8X10 Ilford MG IV RC paper, enough for 200 negative/positive pairs.
I've found this the easiest way to get into pinhole photography.

 

[daleeman]

Where do I find out more about Karlos Cameras?

I hope to take my pinhole to Cleveland with me for the frozen film shoot this weekend

 

[removedacct1]

Concerning building vs buying a pinhole camera. I believe I have developed an easy build method for a 4X5 pinhole that will take different front ends for different focal length pinholes thus giving different angle of view.

Are you familiar with this design? http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:143882

My results:

 

[removedacct1]

Where do I find out more about Karlos Cameras?

I hope to take my pinhole to Cleveland with me for the frozen film shoot this weekend

Karl Richards (aka Karlos/G-A-P) can be reached via his Flickr account: https://www.flickr.com/photos/g-a-p/

 

[marciofs]

As I predicted, I am so "focused" on pinhole photographs that I forgot about my lenses.
It has worked great for my landscape and cityscape shots.

Soon I plan to make some test with portraits, to see if I can use pinholes/long exposures to make nice portraits.

At the momento I am using Ilford Obscura. I also have purchased a 6x17 camera which will arrive later this month.

Here some results.

http://www.marciofaustino.com/uploads/1/6/4/6/16464874/5101161_orig.jpg

http://www.marciofaustino.com/uploads/1/6/4/6/16464874/4473856_orig.jpg

http://www.marciofaustino.com/uploads/1/6/4/6/16464874/9023486_orig.jpg


If everything works as I plan, I will use lenses only for action street photographs, parties and action portraits.

 

[removedacct1]

At the momento I am using Ilford Obscura. I also have purchased a 6x17 camera which will arrive later this month.

Here some results.

http://www.marciofaustino.com/uploads/1/6/4/6/16464874/5101161_orig.jpg

http://www.marciofaustino.com/uploads/1/6/4/6/16464874/4473856_orig.jpg

http://www.marciofaustino.com/uploads/1/6/4/6/16464874/9023486_orig.jpg

Very nice images. You are making good use of the Obscura camera!

 

[NedL]

Very nice images. You are making good use of the Obscura camera!

Yes those look great!

 

[marciofs]

Thank you very much...

Despite I had some photographs lost because of mistakes on development, in general I am very happy with the results.

Now, I think about use Multi Grade paper instead of film negative for economic reasons, but I am very scared how different may be the result.
I have used paper as negative long time ago when first experimenting with pinhole cameras, but I never printed from them, only scanned. While theses recent shots with Obscura camera were all shot with film negatives and printed in darkroom.

So I am thinking about do my following shots with paper as negative.

 

[bergytone]

Lately, almost exclusively. Trying to get the process down, and learn my camera's capabilities. That way I'll be ready for WWpinhole day, and not be scrambling to get the process right at the last minute.

I was happy enough with my results to actually show a couple pinhole shots at our local winter photo contest. In a gallery of beautiful, digital, photo shopped colorful prints, the lowly B&W pinhole actually stands out. When I handed the matted prints to the lady at the desk, she said she thought they were antique shots, not something done recently. A nice compliment, as that's the look I was going for.

 

[marciofs]

I forgot about the WWPD it looks like I will participate in the next one. Although I haven't bothed about showing my photographs laterly.

 

[ME Super]

I prefer to use pinholes and lenses for making photographs and not as targets. Using them for target practice trends to destroy them.

As for making photographs, I tend to use a lens much more frequently than a pinhole.

 

[Herschel]

Mostly shoot medium format pinhole, although I've been branching out into Polaroid and traditional lens work.

 

[Oldwino]

Building a 5x7 pinhole right now, so I suspect I'll be upping my pinhole percentage a lot.

 

[Patrick Robert James]

I like to shoot with a Holga WPC panorama camera sometimes. I did modify the heck out of it to get rid of light leaks, be able to add a filter, fit a cable release, make sure it is level etc. Most photos are a bit of a surprise too since it is so wide. It is fun and a bit of a palate cleanser to only have to decide where to point the camera and how long to open the shutter.

 

[marciofs]

With Ilford Obscura and RealitySoSubtle 141 I am photographing only with them. i don't plan to take my nikon F3 and Bronica from my camera bag so soon. And I sold my Pentax 6x7 I used for landscapes because I am completly happy with my paroramic pinhole for this job.

The Pentax was too heavy. It was like carring a brick in my backpack.

 

[removedacct1]

I love my pinhole cameras, both home made ones and bought ones. I am discussing with my friend Dead Link Removed having him make one of these for me this year! He makes some great wooden pinhole cameras. My Vermeer 6X17 curved-plane is one of my absolute favorites:

 

[marciofs]

I love my pinhole cameras, both home made ones and bought ones. I am discussing with my friend Dead Link Removed having him make one of these for me this year! He makes some great wooden pinhole cameras. My Vermeer 6X17 curved-plane is one of my absolute favorites:

This one in the photo, that you say you are ordering this year, is large format?