Um...I made a pinhole...

[Todd.Hanz]

a screwdriver - are you sure the hole isn't too big? that could cause unsharpness as well.

Unsharpness? From a pinhole?

 

[peterc]

The pinhole is made with a screwdriver (strange, I know) in a piece of electrical tape (even stranger).

Not a bad start. Replace the tape with heavy cooking foil and the screwdriver with a small needle (make sure you don't leave any raged edges on the hole) and you'll have good little camera.
Tape the box you're using to a weight of some kind to eliminate the shake.

Peter

 

[Stephanie Brim]

I'm not using a box. I'll explain what I did.

I got an Argus C4 in the box-o-cameras that I bought last year that had a bad shutter. I took that body and took apart the Falcon Miniature that I bought from a seller on Ebay for the shutter assembly. It has a shutter that you can hold open for as long as you want. It will also hold itself open, but I didn't kow that at when I took this photo...I just found that out right now.

It's an interesting rig, to be sure. I promise to take photos.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

Use the point of the pin, not the whole pin. It has to be really small.

 

[dazedgonebye]

I'm going to a camera show tomorrow. Maybe I'll see if I can pick up an old box camera for a similar toy.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

Well, the pinhole is tiny. I think this may work. I'll let you know...I'll be developing negatives later tonight.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

Frank! Go buy some 50's and stay out of trouble!

And there are Two old Kodak Box cameras in "The Box", a Polaroid 250, another Polaroid "Countdown 90", and a really big O-Scope camera with a 4x5 Graflex back, with a Shutter, .... Good Pinhole Stuff... Still going through boxes...

 

[FrankS]

BRian, as long as that pinhole is 5cm from the film, I'm good.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

Mmm...Graflex. Just so you know, I actually *am* getting a Graphic. Don't know which yet, but I will be. Out of curiosity, what's the shutter on that camera?

 

[kaiyen]

So now you are getting a graflex? So no @home E6 for you?

Different day, different plan, eh?
allan

 

[Rob]

Thats why they call it a PIN hole camera, use a pin to make the smallest hole possible. You have invented the screwdriver hole camera.

 

[robert blu]

Good start Stephanie ! Pinhole photography always gives emotion before, during and after the shot! For your info april 30 will be the
"Worldwide Pinhole Photography
Day (WPPD), a global event celebrating the fantasy, art, fun and
experience of lensless photography, will occur on April 30, 2006.

All photographers around the world will be invited to take a picture
with a pinhole camera during the 24 hours of Sunday April 30 and
upload it to http://www.pinholeday.org . A photo by each artist
will become part of the international Web gallery on the WPPD site."

It would be great to see a picture of yours in the gallery.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

Mmm...Graflex. Just so you know, I actually *am* getting a Graphic. Don't know which yet, but I will be. Out of curiosity, what's the shutter on that camera?

The O-Scope 4x5 camera has a Bausch and Lomb leaflet shutter with T, B, and 1s through 1/100th second.

But I may have a spare lens in shutter for the speed-graphic.

What are you getting???

 

[bmattock]

I'd pose for a nude pinhole self-portrait, but you'd think it was raw cookie dough. Nobody wants to see that.

 

[Rick Waldroup]

Stephanie, have you thought about a zone plate camera?

 

[rbiemer]

Nice work, Stephanie! I like using the disposable foil cake/muffin pans for my pinhole material. It's stiffer than kitchen foil and not as hard to work as soda can aluminum. I like to get to something close to f/180 for my pinholes. Which is partly why I don't use a pin to make 'em. I use a set of very small drill bits--like THESE that let me choose the size.
Rob

 

[Stephanie Brim]

I'll be taking some photos of the thing today (in black and white of course) and developing them when I get home from Ames. Gotta go get shoes for the boyfriend and cheesecake for me. Prepare to be impressed by my ingenuity (or something...)!

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

I'd pose for a nude pinhole self-portrait, but you'd think it was raw cookie dough. Nobody wants to see that.

Nobody wants to see raw cookie dough? Are you kidding? How do you explain all the cooking shows? :angel:

Falcargus, eh? Nice ring to it...

 

[RML]

Steph, as odd as FrankS' suggestion sounds, I think this pinhole and your planned self-nudes project could fit together pretty well. Of course, I don't know how "shy" or extrovert you are, and how exposing yourself to the world might make you feel, but the unsharpness of this pinhole, the blurriness and its soft focus might all artistically work in favour of your self-nudes.

 

[FrankS]

as odd as FrankS' suggestion sounds

I didn't think it sounded odd!

the blurriness and its soft focus might all artistically work in favour of your self-nudes.

My thoughts exactly.