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The First Shoot

05092010928The first shoot was good fun. We had no clue if where going in the right direction. We went to The Parc-Güell in Barcelona, which is a beautiful place and has a lot of interesting spots to make pictures of.

The reactions of people on me walking around with a device that resembles something in between a star-trek phaser and a sonic screwdriver than any other modern technology known was great.

It was a half cloudy/sunny day, and light meter readings where all between 1/1000 and 1/250. Making the exposure times between 1-3 seconds.

We shot each picture at least twice. Using different exposure times. We already made some mistakes on our first shoot. some (unintentional) double exposures, and one where the shutter did not close well. You’ll see the pictures:)

UPDATE 07/04/2011

Ok, I finally managed to have the film developed. Good news. Everything is blurry!! Good news because I can guess where the blur is coming from; The shutter mechanism makes the whole camera move. The rest went pretty well… The pictures are spaced, a couple where double exposed but we did that on purpose and it looks like I had the light/time calculations spot on. I’ve had the film scanned and only a few pictures came through. I’ve placed them below here.

After a bit of reading, I did find that the lack of focus is not necessarily due to the movement of the shutter while making the photo, but can also come through the size and quality of the hole. Here’s a good text that explains that: http://www.pinhole.cz/en/pinholecameras/pinhole_01.html

I’ll be working on some of the modifications I thought about and listed below.

UPDATE 16/04/2011

Last weekend I changed the pinhole which was made from a piece of tinfoil to a piece of soda can. The hole I made with a needle and looked really nice. Good edges and 0.7mm Diameter. We went up to our building roof with a couple of paymobile and Lego figs. and shot a film.

I´ve already picked up the pictures from the shop and added a gallery below. As you can see the pictures are still very blurry. The colors look a lot better now though.

This morning I again, made a new pinhole plate. I´ve re-calculated the Focal length and saw that the hole needed to be a lot smaller, about 0.3mm.  The new plate is mounted and I´ll shoot some pictures next week. Due to the new size, I also had to re-calculate the exposure times that now are a bit longer.

Update 13/10/2012

After having some Ideas and sketching about for some time now, I decided to take my experiments to a different direction. I have now built a completely functional Pinhole camera using LEGO. Due to the use of the LEGO Mindstorms robotics part, I managed to add a light meter, ave the camera control the exposure time, open and close the shutter and wind the paper (This one is using paper instead of film).

Have a look here for more.

Update 22/03/2012

I have finally managed to make some time for filling up a new roll of film with the camera. It almost took me a year, but hey… if you want quality… ;) . About 14 good pictures came out and I have added them to the Gallery.

Update 07/09/2012

Again, it took me a couple of months from finishing a film to get the results available on-line. The  Gallery. My personal favourite is the cyclists on the Avinguda Diagonal one:

 

(Future) camera modifications

  • Add bolt on the bottom for Tripod mounting.  I’ve solved this by attaching a tripod mount with a rubber band ;)
  • Bring a stopwatch for more exact timing
  • Create new pinhole sheet. Currently it has a bit of a messy edge and I think I should replace the tinfoil for something stronger (like a piece of tin from a soda can)
  • New pinhole sheet works better than tinfoil
  • New pinhole (from 0.5mm to 0.3mm) gives sharper results. Will have to drop exposure time.

Here are all the articles on my Pinhole Adventures:

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  • http://followthebaldie.com trevor

    If you need any practical tips you might want to speak to my mum, who made one in about 1960.

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    Me visit you site http://abiteof.com/pinhole-adventures/ man times, I want to say thank you for assiting with me English. I share pretty video with you.

  • http://www.cardis.com.pl/e/inne/703/serwis,ogloszeniowy.html Peter

    Very interesting article, I refer it to a friend, because he too is interested in this topic

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  • http://www.imagemaskingservices.com Image Masking

    wow… hahaha… u sure wud have had fun with that camera (which BTW doesnt look like a camera:P ) …