New to Pinhole

onemississipp

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I am new to pinhole and the forum really. Would like to start some home developing so I decided pinhole would be a great step in that direction. So after some research I made a camera, worked out the bugs (light leaks) and got a real photo on try 3.
 

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I've had an Ilford Titan 4x5 for a couple of years and am very pleased. Printing with platinum/palladium contact prints from HP5 as well as slight enlargements on Ilford multigrade and some scanned. If you can download and print the Ilford exposure dial it comes in handy. It came with the camera then I reprinted it and glued to thin plastic sheets (some assembly required) to make a durable guide. I usually take an incident reading and transfer to the dial. It has been quite accurate.

http://www.jeffreyglasser.com/
 
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onemississipp

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It is a bit additive, I catch myself looking around for boxes. I used the "PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY AND CAMERA DESIGN CALCULATORS" on http://www.mrpinhole.com/calcpinh.php.

I first started with the Ipanorame from pinhole.org but after building it I was checking measurements against what was written in the text and something was off (focal length was suppose to be 4.8", mine was 3.75"). I ran the numbers through the above mentioned calculator and the measurements did not line up again, so I scrapped it and started over.

I may have printed the template wrong.
 

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Congratulations and welcome to APUG. Being retired, I got interested in pinholery when I read about Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day in 2005. That year I built a pinhole lensboard assembly to fit an old 4x5 press camera I had squirreled away, and the rest, as they say, "is history." I get pretty carried away with the design and build aspects -- could even be that's more interesting to me than the photos! As a result, I now have several sturdy cameras of various sizes. I don't do huge amounts of it, but I at least get out there on WPPD (last Sunday in April) every year. It's great fun.

Anyway, keep up the good work.
 

Jim Jones

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Don't worry if different "experts" give different specifications for pinhole cameras. They have been quibbling over such details in pinhole photography for well over a century. One of the beauties of pinhole photography is the latitude one has in improvising cameras. It isn't hard science, but more like magic. Many people use Mr. Pinhole, although I prefer www.pinhole.cz/en/pinholedesigner. It seems more versatile for someone who has occasionally dabbled in pinhole photography for decades. Another fine online resource is https://jongrepstad.com/pinhole-photography/pinhole-photography-history-images-cameras-formulas/.
 

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'Not into pinhole, but the generosity of high quality help just impresses the heck outta me. Bravo all.
 

Joe Decko

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I love your design. Did you create from scratch or use some sort of template? That shutter is the bomb
 
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onemississipp

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Joe Decko said:
I love your design. Did you create from scratch or use some sort of template? That shutter is the bomb
Click to expand...

Joe,
I figured out I wanted to use 4x5 sheets, cut from 8x10 sheets. Price works out really cheap that way. 20 8x10 sheets makes 80 4x5, in theory.

Then used the pinhole calculator and went from there...that shutter is horrible! I need to redo it to a smooth sliding one.
 
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