Topic: World Pinhole Day

[Info Red]

I built two fo the matchbox pinholes for WWPD, one for my wife Becky, the other one for me.  Mine jammed - film wouldn't advance - so Beck shot with hers for awhile until the rain drove her back to the truck.  As she passed me she handed me her camera and said "Have Fun!"  So I shot the rest of the roll before the rain became too annoying. 

These are the results - 4 of mine, 1 of Beck's. 

A terrific  design, and I'll keep one handy from now on!  Thanks for sharing the tutorial; I wouldn't have had a clue otherwise as to how to build one!

IR

If the files are too big I'll jump back on and resize.

[astrobeck]

info red these are really really nice! They are what I would expect of a matchbox, like a tiny peep show almost!  ;-)

Now I need to get busy and finish the roll I have loaded in mine.

I got all gung-ho and built two pinhole boxes, then had a crazy week of prepping an astronomy talk I have to present next week so the pinhole cams are just sitting on the dining table begging to go out.
Dang work! 
Hopefully I can squeeze a few hours of pinhole time in with work next week.

[Info Red]

Beck, thanks for the comments!  This was the first time to make matchbox pinholes, so I think I did several things this time that probably will be changed next time - I think the ISO was too high (200), I think I made the pinhole too big, I think I over exposed all of the shots to compensate for the gray, gloomy, soggy day, and I didn't use my Gitzo tripod .

The most curious aspect of these was/is the pronounced grain.  I don't know exactly what to attribute that to, other than a combination of the above factors.  Then again, I think the film might have been slightly expired, and perhaps I exposed it to a warm car trunk at one point.  Whatever the reason, I love the grain - very Pointillist - and hope to be able to replicate it with the next matchbox outing!

I'm loading up the truck with more cameras to waste film all day today; of course one of them will be a matchbox!

Info Red

[Mike (happyforest)]

Well I finally finished the two films in my 2nd generation pinhole panoramic camera.  I have developed the Black and white but the colour will have to wait until I can get it to a local processor.

Unfortunately I have only managed to get one image out of this film due to an number of factors.  Not least the fact that this was a 400 iso film and as it was generally overexposed. Pulling the development really didn't help much.  The frame that did make it was indoors with a timed exposure in the region of 10 to 20 secs from memory.

The panoramic view is cut off at either edge, although the full 70 mm width is exposed and the sprockets are clear.  Interestingly one side is darker than the other and it also looks as if you can see the edge of the shutter window or aperture cut out. In the new (unimproved design) I moved the pinhole plate to the inside of the camera with the shutter on the outside, but this was also a new pinhole (nominally the same size as the original) on the BW camera, the colours has the original pinhole.

I always wound the film on into the spare cassette in case I the shutter opened by accident. This meant that unexposed film was held in the frame for sometime and it appears that the cardboard may not be as light proof as I first thought. There are some consistent patterns outside the film window area on the films which suggest that light is getting in some how and some mottling patterns across some of the film window.  However this frame is clear but was probably the 2nd exposure in quick succession which meant that it didn't have a long dwell time in the film window as other frames may have had. (Scratch that the last four were taken in quick succession and they show this problem. It will be interesting to see if the colour film exhibits the same problems as this one once I get it developed. I have added a scan of the pattern on the edge outside the film window.  This may coincide with the fold creating the side of the cassette chamber.

Of course there were also the odd double exposure as some idiot did forget to wind on occasionally.
I think I'll try and resolve the other problems before I develop a clockwork\rubber band motor drive for the pinhole.  

Mike


  

[Randy B]

Since I'm a lazy bum unlike the most of you who made cameras  I used my Pinholga.  It was cheap and snaps right onto the Holga Polaroid back so I thought it would be a fun toy to have around.  I think I used Tmax 400 for these.  This was my first outing with this badboy so the shots were mostly crap    But Pinholes are alot of fun I found so I'll likely be getting into more.  The infinite depth of field is great for sticking tiny subject close up in front of a landscape, like my little Jesus toy (since Pinhole Day was also Easter I thought it would be fun)

[Sandeha Lynch]

I never seem to make WPD on the day, but the 6x9 did get some film through it.

[Chris A Fraser]

I did find a bit of time on WPD to do some shooting. It only took forever to scan the shot....