Thread: Invitation: Pinhole photography

One of these Wanderlust Cameras : Pinwide

This was as a result of Amin posting this thread Wanderlust Pinwide - Wide Angle Pinhole Photography for Micro 4/3 ages ago ... I signed up along with quite a few others from here and mu43

I like the concept, how they go wide.

Checked delivery status for my Skink Pinhole Pancake.. it should be here today. I..... can't..... wait..... two..... hours!!!! Ahem anyway. Just saying :)

I have made a number of pinhole images with film but only a few using digital. Here is one of my digital images.

i like how that looks Grant ... care to share how you did it ?

Nice Grant!

Originally Posted by pdh

i like how that looks Grant ... care to share how you did it ?

No problem in sharing, although it is not much to the technique. I had an old body cap in the bottom of my kit and I simply drilled a 1/4" hole in it. Then I took a small piece of copper garden edging, it was thicker than foil but not by much, and put a tiny pin hole in it and then I glued it to the end cap. A made a few test shots to get an acceptable exposure. I used a tripod, and did composition as well as I could on a very dull screen, tripped the shutter then I nature did the rest.

The only post processing I did was to spot a way a few dust spots.

Thanks Grant.
Not everybody knows how to do this sort of thing (I've read posts on forums from people who had no idea how a pinhole photograph was made, or even that there is no lens involved) so it's useful to have it described.
With a bit of luck someone else will get stuck in and have a go ...

Originally Posted by pdh

Thanks Grant.
Not everybody knows how to do this sort of thing ...

You're right, if you haven't tried something it may seem hard but once you have tried it then it often seems easy.

Here is an image of how the general set up looks. The pinhole must be small, just a prick. Then lightly sand the back side so you get a near perfect hole with no burs. Other that that all else is just trial and error.

I should have thought to relight this thread sooner as it was World Pinhole Photography Day on Sunday 28th April ...

oh well.

I made two images yesterday, but I don't handle sheet film often enough to have learned how to handle it without hashing up the emulsion, hence a bit messy:

20130429-1 by _loupe, on Flickr







20130429-2 by _loupe, on Flickr