Pinhole Instax?

[eli griggs]

Playing with some Instax film, I'm wondering what results, methods, images, others are getting.

So far, my Hasselblad is not yet yielding good results with a F256 manufacturers cap fixture.

How are you lighting, naturally occurring light, strobes, how many flashes, LEDS, super close, etc?

If you can, share your happy and not so joyful results so we can get some ideas of our own.

Cheers and Godspeed!

 

[tezzasmall]

So far, my Hasselblad is not yet yielding good results with a F256 manufacturers cap fixture.

Can you expand your answer above? What are you getting? e.g under / over exposed prints etc.

Most of my recent pinhole work has been a piece of cooking foil / aluminium sheet pushed into the lens aperture of a 35 mm Pentax MZ5N slr, and then a safety is used to make a hole / lens. Results have been surprisingly good. I let the camera deal with the exposure, setting it to Auto / Program, which with ISO 400 b/w film, gives an exposure of about 2 seconds on a sunny day in the summer months. DoF is really good.

Terry S

 

[eli griggs]

Under exposure prints, manual exposures, with a nicely made pinhole ’lens’.

There‘s no auto exposure available and I’m going to try some more exposures at 800iso tomorrow with some Vivitar 365 flash fill and long exposure with Lume Cube lights, both pinhole and extension tube plus lens setups, as time allows; Dr. apt Midday

 

[Donald Qualls]

I've done limited pinhole with a LomoGraflok mounted on a 4x5 pinhole camera (modified from an old electron microscope camera for Polaroid). The first thing to remember is that Instax has the worst reciprocity in captivity -- even going from bright to dim sun (or extending exposure past 1/100) you have to downrate to 400 or even 200. That means that even in full sun, a pinhole exposure needs to be metered at or below 100. And you'll likely have to spend some prints to test the exposure to get close when your exposures run to multiple seconds, never mind minutes...

 

[eli griggs]

I've done limited pinhole with a LomoGraflok mounted on a 4x5 pinhole camera (modified from an old electron microscope camera for Polaroid). The first thing to remember is that Instax has the worst reciprocity in captivity -- even going from bright to dim sun (or extending exposure past 1/100) you have to downrate to 400 or even 200. That means that even in full sun, a pinhole exposure needs to be metered at or below 100. And you'll likely have to spend some prints to test the exposure to get close when your exposures run to multiple seconds, never mind minutes...

Interesting findings.

I was not able to try my hand at photography today, but this beautiful we weather this week gives my additional chances to use outdoor light.

Hopefully I'll get a better idea of how to proceed, between your tips and the brightest sunshine we'll be having.