52 Rolls Week #17: Results for Worldwide Pinhole Day!

The results from Worldwide Pinhole Day posted on the 52 Rolls Project.  My favorite shot below with an interesting effect cause by the sun.

It was a busy day at the park.  The History of Red Rocks Amphitheatre and the rest of the project posts here.

Red Rocks for Pinhole Day

Had fun yesterday at Red Rocks Park for Pinhole Day.  Results coming soon!  And yes that is snow, It snowed Friday night through Saturday.

Me and the Zero Image Pinhole.

My Gear for Pinhole Day

I finally took pictures of the Zero Image Pinhole:



Front:

Back:

+ Portra 160 Film

Pinhole Time Testing with Portra 160: Part II

Back with the Zero Image Pinhole, and a time test without a sky view.  As we say in the previous post, a sky view will wash out if you use the longest exposure.  Bu here, without the sky, there is almost no perceptible difference in the results at a very wide range of exposures.


Exposed 5 Seconds:

Exposed 10 Seconds:

Exposed 15 Seconds:

Exposed 30 Seconds:

Of course, I will mostly be shooting landscape images with a sky view, so I'll be exposing at 5 & 10 seconds for Pinhole Day.

Pinhole Time Testing with Portra 160: Part I

I'm getting ready for Worldwide Pinhole Day by performing real time tests.  When I shoot B&W I just guess at exposures and bracket.  This time I wanted to try Color Film and decided to go into the field prepared to expose the film properly.

I also wanted to use the Zero Image Pinhole instead of my usual Holga Pinhole. I hadn't shot much with that camera the Zero Image, so here we go.


I looked up the Portra 160 Reciprocity Curves, but even at f/235, I found that I didn't need as much exposure as the curves predicted.

Exposed 5 Seconds:

Exposed 10 Seconds:

15-30 seconds was recommended by the curves, but with a bright sun just out of view, 5-10 seconds worked better.  notice below how the blue sky in the upper right washes out as exposure increases.

Exposed 15 Seconds:

Exposed 30 Seconds:

However, with the sky not in the view, the exposure time differences are not noticeable at all.  We'll look at that in my next posting.

Saturdays Online: Experimental Cameras I Have Known........

Experimental Cameras include the expected offerings from Holga or Lomography.  But I'm also including unusual 'found cameras', any plastic camera and some odd little 35 mm cameras that have passed my way.  Click on the links to see example images from each camera type.

Okay, lets start with the obvious, Holga.  But there are many Holgas, and I have two types:  The standard Holga 120:

and the Holga Panorama Pinhole:

See last Year's Pinhole Day Photo here.

The Lomography Fisheye:

An Old School Plastic Camera, the Kodak Dualflex.  Taking a page out of the TLR family.  I had read about someone finding their grandmother's camera (with film) in a closet and developing it to find a whole new perspective on their grand mother as a young woman.  Great romantic Story, but the results of my experiments were lacking.  Seems like I never posted anything from this camera.  I'll take another look through my files.

The Kalimar Wide-X, a found camera.  Literally found in the trash.  The focussing lens had a crack, and the camera was very hard to load properly:

But it still yielded some results that were good enough to lead us to buy it's modern cousin the Lomo Horizon Swing Lens Panorama.

The Kodak Pocket Camera:

I bought this when I lived in New Orleans (Pre-Katrina).  I was afraid to walk around with a 'nice camera' and this slips neatly into the pocket.  Takes decent photos for a plastic lens camera.

And A silly little "Mini Diana" that shoot 110 ( a format I've never tried before).  It came as a bonus gift when I bought the Horizon.  So what the heck.....I'm testing it now.

The film cartridge actually forms the camera back.  

Sounds like a recipe for light leaks.

Cameras that I own as novelties but have yet to use:

Zero Image Pinhole:

This camera was part of the 3-D printing trend.  We'll try to focus on using it for Pinhole Day 2017.  And the same is true of the Ilford Camera Obscura (below).  Of course there is no reason to wait for Pinhole Day.  So we will try to use it sooner.  It is 4X5 format, probably why I haven't tried it yet.

In future weeks, We'll take a look at some Experimental Methods I have known.

All My Pinhole Options!

I have toooooo many choices.  Check in later to find out which cameras I actually used.

Above

Upper Left: 3D Printed Panorama Pinhole

Upper Right: Ilford's Obscura 4X5 Pinhole

Lower Center: Holga Panorama Pinhole

Below

Top: Ondu 6X7 Pinhole (Adjustable)

Botton: Zero Image 6X7 Pinhole (Adjustable)

And if you are planning for next year, take a look at these Vermeer Pinholes.

It's Here: World Wide Pinhole Day!

Out and About Sunday with the Pinhole......

I was out testing my latest pinhole acquisition (more on that later).  My local Library was sponsoring a Pinhole Day Event, allowing us to wander around inside and out with pinhole cameras.  I wanted to support the event, so w photographed locally rather than heading to the Mountains:

I hope you were out and about too!