mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Came up with an idea. Toyed with the idea of trying some pinhole > photography but something always seems to get in the way. Came up with > an idea to turn a regular film/digital camera into a pinhole using a > body cap. Should work on any 35mm digital ect that would accept that > kind of cap, and an extra cap in the bag weighs next to nothing and no > bulk or extra stuff to lug around. > > Now I suspect the smaller the hole the better as far as sharpness, but > is there a group of sizes that I should try? How much of a difference > in hole size should I allow. Granted a body cap isn't going to alter > the GDP, but its not like getting another piece of cardboard either. Id > be interested to hear thoughts and ideas of those with pinhole > experience. > > > Mark > I was lazy, so I made a new lensboard for my view camera with a piece of thick cardboard. I cut a hole in that with an Xacto knife and taped a piece of aluminum foil over the hole. I punched a hole in the aluminum with a sewing needle. I racked the camera to about 8 or 9 inches, stuck a Polaroid holder in it with a sheet of #57 in it and pulled out the paper. After 30 seconds or a minute or so, I put the paper back in and processed it. Came out pretty well. Not as sharp as with a 210 mm lens, though. Since I am not especially interested in pinhole photography, I did not do any more. And now I do not know where to get Polaroid film in 4x5 size anyway. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 18:25:01 up 19 days, 3:00, 3 users, load average: 4.83, 4.86, 4.78 ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.