My first pinhole picture

[daveleo]

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The first image shows the camera exterior, covered in adhesive silver plastic film. . . . . .

~Joe

JoeV, what does that silver plastic film do for you ? Weather protection ???

 

[JoeV]

@Dave; Yes, mainly weather protection, but also keeps the box cooler in the heat of the sun (it being constructed of otherwise black material).

~Joe

 

[Snowbuzz]

Lovely images! I just love Harman's Titan pinhole camera. I have the 4X5 version.



Ilford Delta 100.

 

[rcwater]

Burned out pier

Burned out pier

I just wanted to post one of my pics from a recent outing using a holga 120 pinhole camera using Ilford Pan F plus 50.

 

[charjohncarter]

One of our members, who seems to be inactive right now, turned me on to Lenox Laser. They make a beautiful pinhole. It is a cost but they are really nice.

http://www.lenoxlaser.com/

 

[Luvitech]

Going back to basics is awesome... 😀

This is one of my first tryouts with LUVI-66M :



and another one :

 

[JoeV]

Here are some digital pinhole images, taken with a Pinwide body cap on a micro-4/3 G1 body.

Garden:

Selfie:

Shadow:

 

[Luvitech]

Nice shots... What size is your pinhole? Are you using a home made one?

 

[JoeV]

Nice photo, Luvitech. I'm using the Wanderlust Pinwide body cap, with chemically etched pinhole. Here's their link:

http://wanderlustcameras.com/products/pinwide.html

I've also used a hand made pinhole in a standard micro-4/3 body cap but it's not a recessed design like the pinwide and hence isn't as wide of an angle of view.

~Joe

 

[daveleo]

Nice stuff up above !
Here is my latest . . .
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[rtphotos]

Nice examples, everyone!

Dave, I do like the last one you posted of the guitar. The soft dreaminess is quite appealing.

I can't get enough of pinholes - using them and also making them! Here is photo of a few of my most recently made pinhole cameras as they appeared on Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 2013!



And here is a link to my Flickr set showing pinhole photos made that day:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/36exposures/sets/72157633479279554


Keep on pinholing, WPPD 2014 is only 4 months away!
rt 🙂

 

[daveleo]

Nice examples, everyone!

Dave, I do like the last one you posted of the guitar. The soft dreaminess is quite appealing.

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Keep on pinholing, WPPD 2014 is only 4 months away!
rt 🙂

Ross,

Love your Flickr pinhole sets! Quite a set of galleries, and they are beautiful ! Inspiring.

My guitar is actually a small Christmas tree ornament that I saw in a store and thought of this idea. 😛

 

[rtphotos]

My guitar is actually a small Christmas tree ornament that I saw in a store and thought of this idea. 😛

Dave, that's very cool! One of the interesting things about pinhole photography is the ability to play with scale. I would not have guessed that your guitar was a small ornament! 🙂

Just for kicks, here are a couple stringed instrument pinhole images.

Home-made 4x5 pinhole camera, FP-100C45:




Transaquatype (from pinhole image above):



I hope you continue your exploration with pinholes. Pinhole caps today, handmade pinhole cameras tomorrow?! 😉 Go for it!

ross

 

[daveleo]

The year end holidays slowed me down quite a bit on this topic.
Here is my first pinhole of 2014 !
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[robert blu]

Hi Dave, you are improving day after day 🙂 love the guitar shot! And 2014 seems to start in a good way!
robert

 

[JoeV]

For the new year, a newly built 5x7 format camera made from a cardboard photo storage box. It has an internal storage compartment for extra paper, changed out using a changing bag.

The camera:

The insides, with the storage compartment flipped up as it would be inside a changing bag. The exposure area is to the left:

And a first image, onto grade 2 paper:

More details about the camera are here.

~Joe

 

[jammcat]

Digital pinholes shouldn't be so soft. Some of these examples are just completely out of focus, which would generally point to a pinhole that was made too large. Think about it, a tiny pinhole = a huge f-stop number, which usually means a pretty fantastic DOF.

You could make a pinhole camera out of an Altoids tin that is sharper. In fact:

http://chriskeeney.com/mintycam-altoids-candy-tin-pinhole-camera

🙂

 

[daveleo]

Digital pinholes shouldn't be so soft. Some of these examples are just completely out of focus, which would generally point to a pinhole that was made too large. Think about it, a tiny pinhole = a huge f-stop number, which usually means a pretty fantastic DOF.

You could make a pinhole camera out of an Altoids tin that is sharper. In fact:

http://chriskeeney.com/mintycam-altoids-candy-tin-pinhole-camera

🙂

I love the soft look I'm getting from pinholes. Actually that's the look that pulled me into this.
I was using soft filters on lenses and also adding soft layers in postprocessing. For this pinole stuff, I'm good with what the "lens" gives me.

If I wanted sharp and huge DOF, I would do exactly what you said - shoot a sharp lens at a small aperture, camera on a tripod, low ISO. But that is not what I am after with pinholes.

To each his own.

 

[JoeV]

Digital pinholes shouldn't be so soft. Some of these examples are just completely out of focus, which would generally point to a pinhole that was made too large. Think about it, a tiny pinhole = a huge f-stop number, which usually means a pretty fantastic DOF.

You could make a pinhole camera out of an Altoids tin that is sharper. In fact:

http://chriskeeney.com/mintycam-altoids-candy-tin-pinhole-camera

🙂

It is possible to make the pinhole too small for its focal length, at which point any advantage in sharpness due to a high focal ratio is offset by diffraction. That's why there's an optimal pinhole size for any focal length. Which is why cameras with longer focal lengths - implying larger formats, for equivalent angles of view - are generally sharper.

But sharpness is not everything to an image, it depends on the intent of the artist.

Here's an example of an image from a pinhole camera made purposefully soft, by an aperture fully 6mm wide, with a 150mm focal length onto 4x5 paper, so wide that I call it a "pencil hole" camera. The subject, though barely recognizable, is somewhat on the cusp between abstraction and representation.

~Joe

 

[jammcat]

I love the soft look I'm getting from pinholes. Actually that's the look that pulled me into this.

Pinholes still have a dreamlike softness and specific look to them, even when the huge DOF puts the image into relative focus without a lens.

Still, there is a difference between pinhole soft and complete out of focus.

But there is no wrong experimentation with photography-- if that is the look that you are going for, then by all means.