Polaroid Portrait, Pinhole +

dazedgonebye

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We went up to Kingman (AZ) to see about a dog. Stayed the night in Lake Havasu City again.
I have to say, it's an incredibly frustrating place for photographs. It has all the charm you would imagine a desert city--founded in the 60's with a half empty fake English village in the middle--might have. Which is to say, damn near zero.
I did a polaroid pinhole of the London Bridge and shot some color at decaying things. Best though is the portrait of my younger son.
That's taken with a #2 diopter held in front of the lens. Just a touch off on the near eye focus, but considering the wild guessing aspect of the process, pretty darn good.

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In spite of the child's song, London Bridge IS NOT falling down and seems quite solid.

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Steve,

I'm not sure I get it. Was the London Bridge the only pinhole? I like all of the shots. I finally finished my pinholes and used the Lennox PH. I have one for my Pentax 6x7 and one on an old Polaroid body. This technology is crazy. For the pinholes I bought; different sources give from 80mm to 117mm optimum focal length. I'm still happy I can't really change the Polaroid but I'm still changing the focal length on the 6x7. Here is my converted Polaroid:

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Only the london bridge shot is a pinhole.
The others were with an old Polaroid 330 Land Camera.

Is that a square shooter? Where do you get film for it?
 
No, it is a Polaroid ColorPack II. I got it to take the lens out to make a lens cap lens for my Pentax 6x7. It is my best portrait (soft) lens. And the pinhole that you see is a Pack film user. Here is a FujiFP100b shot, my first one with the pinhole.

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