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Okay folks - I've noticed a bit of a trend of people asking questions about pinhole cameras, conversions to existing cameras and so forth... So, always one to jump on a bandwagon, I thought I'd drop a thread about the Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 2015, and ask if anyone is thinking of having a bit of a bash at it.
Personally, It's just the excuse I need to dig out the WPC120 Holga and run a roll of film through it whilst counting elephants in a suitably scenic location.
Though I may also dig out the "Body Cap Pinhole Lens" I made ages ago for one of the Canon EOS machines (either the EOS3, 30 or (whispers) the 7D) following the tutorial I found online here. I'm also intrigued by the idea of using extension tubes to try and make a "Telephoto Pinhole".
One thing I found when looking at pinhole resources was that lots of them want the diameter of the actual pinhole. Well - fine if you've got a "laser cut" job from somewhere... but what if you've done what I did, and made one with a bit of Irn-Bru can, a needle and some fine wet and dry paper. Well - it struck me that I had the ideal tool for the job. Plonk the pinhole plate on the scanner, scan it at a good high resolution and use the ruler tool in CS5 to get a size in pixels, then simple maths to get it back into fractions of mm's. It can also be rather revealing in that it may well show that the pinhole you thought was lovely and round was actually as rough as guts, and you really need to go back to the Irn Bru can and make another one... Ask me how I know that one
So - over to you folks - hints, tips, ideas for conversions, anything goes really...
Personally, It's just the excuse I need to dig out the WPC120 Holga and run a roll of film through it whilst counting elephants in a suitably scenic location.
Though I may also dig out the "Body Cap Pinhole Lens" I made ages ago for one of the Canon EOS machines (either the EOS3, 30 or (whispers) the 7D) following the tutorial I found online here. I'm also intrigued by the idea of using extension tubes to try and make a "Telephoto Pinhole".
One thing I found when looking at pinhole resources was that lots of them want the diameter of the actual pinhole. Well - fine if you've got a "laser cut" job from somewhere... but what if you've done what I did, and made one with a bit of Irn-Bru can, a needle and some fine wet and dry paper. Well - it struck me that I had the ideal tool for the job. Plonk the pinhole plate on the scanner, scan it at a good high resolution and use the ruler tool in CS5 to get a size in pixels, then simple maths to get it back into fractions of mm's. It can also be rather revealing in that it may well show that the pinhole you thought was lovely and round was actually as rough as guts, and you really need to go back to the Irn Bru can and make another one... Ask me how I know that one
So - over to you folks - hints, tips, ideas for conversions, anything goes really...